Hoops Hop On Dot-TV Schedule
November 27, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Basketball games across the state take over the MHSAA.tv page on the NFHS Network this week, with more than 100 events being produced by participants of the School Broadcast Program, using the Network’s automated production solution – Pixellot.
A number of schools recently have purchased Pixellot units for their indoor events. Schools with events online using Pixellot this week are: Ann Arbor Greenhills, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, Calumet, Dollar Bay, Flint Kearsley, Flint Powers Catholic, Fowlerville, Grand Blanc, Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian, Harrison, Hemlock, Howell, Kalamazoo Christian, Macomb Lutheran North, Mt. Morris, Norway, Otisville-Lakeville, Ovid-Elsie, Pellston, Saginaw Heritage, Saline, St. Charles, Waterford Our Lady and Warren DeLaSalle.
In addition, Comstock Park, Lake Orion and Vestaburg will use student crews to stream live video of athletic events this week.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network:
Tuesday - Nov. 27
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Warren DeLaSalle - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Lansing Everett at Grand Blanc - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Potterville at Ovid-Elsie - 4 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Farwell at Ovid-Elsie - 4 PM
- Girls Basketball - Farwell at Ovid-Elsie - 5:15 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Lansing Everett at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Lutheran Westland at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Fennville at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Munising at Norway - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Potterville at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- Middle School Boys Basketball - Mancelona at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay - 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Ashley at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Warren DeLaSalle - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Warren DeLaSalle - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Lansing Everett at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Lutheran Westland at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Fennville at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Munising at Norway - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Oakland Christian at Waterford Our Lady - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Potterville at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball - Ashley at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
Wednesday - Nov. 28
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Muskegon Mona Shores at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Saginaw Nouvel at Flint Powers - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball – Muskegon Mona Shores at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 PM
Thursday - Nov. 29
- Middle School Boys Basketball - Belding at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 4:15 PM
- Middle School Boys Basketball - Belding at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Perry at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- Middle School Boys Basketball - Johannesburg-Lewiston at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Hancock at Calumet - 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Dollar Bay - 5:45 PM
- Boys Basketball - Hancock at Calumet - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Dollar Bay - 7:15 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey - Howell at Lake Orion - 7:45 PM
Friday - Nov. 30
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Roseville at Warren DeLaSalle - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Roseville at Warren DeLaSalle - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Warren Lincoln at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Linden at Flint Powers - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Fraser at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Hemlock - 4:30 PM
- JV Boys Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 5 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Roseville at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Roseville at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Clawson at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Warren Lincoln at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Linden at Flint Powers - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Fraser at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Beaverton at Harrison - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Hemlock - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Clawson at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Warren Lincoln at Macomb Lutheran North - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Linden at Flint Powers - 7 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey - Calumet at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Hemlock - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Coleman at Vestaburg - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball – Fraser at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:30 PM
Saturday - Dec. 1
- Boys Ice Hockey - Calumet at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 12:15 PM
- Girls Ice Hockey - Brighton at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7 PM
Monday - Dec. 3
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers - 4 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers - 5:30 PM
Tuesday - Dec. 4
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 4 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 4 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Brighton Charyl Stockwell Academy at Fowlerville - 4:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - North Branch at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Birch Run at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Otisville-Lakeville at Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Rapid River at Norway - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Fowler at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Ogemaw Heights at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Breckenridge at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - North Branch at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:50 PM
- Boys Basketball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Birch Run at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball – Otisville-Lakeville at Flint Kearsley - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Troy Athens at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Yale at Macomb Lutheran North - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Mt. Morris - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Rapid River at Norway - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Fowler at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball – Brighton Charyl Stockwell Academy at Fowlerville - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Breckenridge at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball – Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:30 PM
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Grisdale to be Honored for 40 Seasons on Call for Cheboygan Football
By
Tom Spencer
Special for MHSAA.com
September 13, 2024
When Jason Friday was in high school, there were two types of football fans in Cheboygan.
Folks either went to watch the Cheboygan Chiefs play under the lights, or they listened to the game on the radio called by play-by-play announcer Mike Grisdale.
Well, not much has changed. Friday, a 1992 Cheboygan grad, is now the school’s athletic director. And Grisdale is in the middle of his 40th season on the air.
What is changing tonight, though, is Cheboygan will officially dedicate the stadium press box to Grisdale in a special pregame ceremony before the Chiefs (1-1) take on Elk Rapids (1-1).
Former Cheboygan coaches, Grisdale’s family and people who have worked with him on the radio over the years will be on hand for the ceremony.
“We were able to get Dan Miller, George Blaha, Ken Kal and Dan Dickerson — radio broadcasters for all four Detroit sports — to record statements that we will play over the public address system,” said Friday. “Mike will be presented a smaller version of the plaque that we will be hanging in the press box, and he will have a chance to talk.”
Naming the press box after Grisdale has been in the works for more than a year, Friday noted. Grisdale first learned of the plan when he was interviewing Friday during halftime of a football game last year.
“Jason surprised me on the air,” Grisdale recalled. “I was shocked, but honored and thankful.”
Grisdale, a 1979 Cheboygan grad, is humbled noting there are so many people who contribute to the radio broadcasts and football program. He remembers listening with his father to Jorden James and Bob Martin call Chiefs games when some of the older kids from the neighborhood were playing high school football.
“I have just been so fortunate to do it for this long and have become the go-to guy for historical information and perspective,” Grisdale said.
Grisdale, who has also done nearly 1,000 Chiefs basketball games on the air, along with some hockey and soccer, said his interest in sports goes back to his childhood.
Grisdale grew up in Cheboygan with three brothers in a neighborhood full of kids. Sports were a big part of their lives — collecting baseball cards, listening to the Detroit Tigers on the radio, and playing basketball, kickball and wiffle ball.
Grisdale, who also hosts a Saturday morning radio show from a local restaurant called “Coaches Corner,” vividly recalls trying to keep a scorebook while listening to high school basketball games on WCBY radio and dreaming of becoming the next Blaha, or Ernie Harrell, Bob Ufer, or Bruce Martin - four legendary broadcasters of Michigan professional and college sports.
While at Central Michigan University earning a broadcasting degree, Grisdale got extensive of on-air experience on student stations. He worked on Cheboygan radio stations during summers.
Some of his fondest memories of Chiefs broadcasts have come from the locations where they’ve played.
“I have enjoyed having the opportunity to cover games at places like the Pontiac Silverdome, Palace of Auburn Hills, Crisler Arena and the Breslin Center,” Grisdale said. “You remember the exciting moments and big games”
The 40 years on the air, along with earlier turns covering Marshall and Albion football and basketball games, are really just a blur to the highly-revered radio personality.
“The seasons just seemed to run together,” Grisdale said. “There were many, many times when the weather and the long road trips took their toll.”
Grisdale played football at Cheboygan High School and was an offensive end and a defensive safety on a 9-0 squad his senior year in 1978. He caught three touchdown passes that season. He also held for extra points, collecting snaps from his brother Mark, the Chiefs’ long-snapper.
Mike Grisdale doesn’t hesitate to point out the best player he covered was fullback Shannon Scarborough from the 1991 team that reached the Silverdome – “The all-stater was strong and fast and played both ways,” he noted. But Grisdale has loved all the players and teams over the years. “I do it because I enjoy promoting the kids, keeping the traditions alive, seeing the community come together, good sportsmanship, and being part of a team.”
Friday, who also has broadcast multiple games alongside Grisdale over the years, has enjoyed Grisdale’s efforts to promote every player.
“Kids always love to hear their name on the radio,” Friday said. “What I think he does better than anyone is to make sure the offensive and defensive linemen are consistently mentioned — those boys in the trenches often get overlooked, but not with Mike on the call.”
When Cheboygan installed NFHS Network cameras, the athletic department sought to successfully connect Grisdale’s radio broadcast through the video feed.
“That has been a huge bonus and something that many community members have told me they appreciate,” Friday said.
Grisdale, who also works part-time for Black Diamond Broadcasting in its Cheboygan studios and serves Mackinaw Health System based in St. Ignace as its marketing director, has no plans to end his broadcasting career.
“As long as our local radio station can keep the tradition alive and I am still around, it would be my privilege to keep it going,” Grisdale said.
Cheboygan High School games are carried on WCBY (Cheboygan) 1240 AM, 100.7 FM and 98.1 FM, and streaming at BigCountryGold.com.
Tom Spencer is a longtime MHSAA-registered basketball and soccer official, and former softball and baseball official, and he also has coached in the northern Lower Peninsula area. He previously has written for the Saginaw News, Bay County Sports Page and Midland Daily News. He can be reached at [email protected] with story ideas for Manistee, Wexford, Missaukee, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Iosco, Alcona, Oscoda, Crawford, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Antrim, Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Presque Isle, Cheboygan, Charlevoix and Emmet counties.
PHOTOS (Top) Mike Grisdale, right, and partner Nate King broadcast a Cheboygan game from Central Michigan University. (Middle) The Cheboygan stadium press box will be dedicated to the longtime broadcaster. (Below) Grisdale is on the call for another Chiefs game. (Photos provided by Grisdale and the Cheboygan athletic department.)