SBP Coverage Ramps Up on MHSAA.tv
September 23, 2015
By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director
Nearly 50 events, including over 30 athletic broadcasts, will be put out by members of the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program in the coming week as participating schools get settled into the third full week of the 2015-16 school year.
The programming ranges from athletic events to school board meetings and daily student announcements. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
In its seventh year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – Live or On-Demand – are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to stream athletic competition this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv. On-Demand listings may be available as soon as one hour following an event’s completion. (List as of Sept. 22):
Wednesday – Sept. 23
- Tawas at Pinconning – Boys Soccer – 5 p.m. – On-Demand
- Escanaba at Negaunee – Freshman Football – 6:30 p.m. – On-Demand
Thursday – Sept. 24
- Wyoming at Cedar Springs – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- St. Johns at East Lansing – Girls Swimming & Diving – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Goodrich at Montrose – Junior Varsity Football – 6:25 p.m. – LIVE
- Gwinn at Negaunee – Junior Varsity Football – 6:30 p.m. – On-Demand
- Au Gres-Sims at Whittemore-Prescott – Girls Volleyball – 6:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Durand at Flint Kearsley – Boys Soccer – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Escanaba at Marquette – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Friday – Sept. 25
- Whittemore-Prescott at Lincoln Alcona – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Wyoming at Cedar Springs – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Flint Southwestern at Davison – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Holt at East Lansing – Football – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Fenton at Flint Kearsley – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Gladstone at Marquette – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Standish-Sterling at Pinconning – Football – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Allegan at Plainwell – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Caledonia at Rockford – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Coopersville at Comstock Park – Football – 7:40 p.m. – LIVE
Saturday – Sept. 26
- Oscoda Volleyball Invitational – 9 a.m. – On-Demand
- Detroit Catholic Central at East Lansing – Boys Soccer – 11:30 a.m. – On-Demand
Tuesday – Sept. 29
- DeWitt at Haslett – Boys Soccer – 5:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Grand Ledge at East Lansing – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Pellston at Onaway – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Greenville at Cedar Springs – Boys Soccer – 6:45 p.m. – LIVE
- Fenton at Flint Kearsley – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
Weekly highlights from games produced by participants in the MHSAA's School Broadcast Program are back for another school year on MHSAA.tv. Highlights from this past week come from an 8-player football game between Cedarville at Onaway and girls volleyball matches Kingsford at Marquette and Mason at Haslett.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
Launching at Midnight every Friday throughout the season is MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on FOX Sports Detroit. Mickey York and Rob Rubick host the weekly 30-minute highlights show. The show will re-air most Saturday and Sunday mornings – and will be archived on the FOX Detroit Website. This week, FFOT will re-air at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday on FOX Sports Detroit.
The following games are scheduled to be highlighted this week on Football Friday Overtime:
- Lansing Eastern at Lansing Everett
- Holt at East Lansing
- Belleville at Dearborn Heights Robichaud
- Dearborn at Romulus
- Almont at Richmond
MHSAA.tv on NFHS Network Surpasses Decade of Providing Fans Another Way to Watch
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
August 30, 2024
The way high school sports fans in Michigan follow their favorite teams changed forever 11 years ago.
MHSAA Championships began airing on the NFHS Network in 2013, and one of the oldest games archived was the season-opening varsity football game between Adrian and Carleton Airport on Aug. 30, 2013. Adrian would go on to win that game 26-7. John Koehn of WLEN in Adrian provided the play-by-play. (Watch the entire game here.)
The second, third, and fourth oldest archived streams were also Adrian football games. The first MHSAA basketball game to air was Cheboygan vs. Newberry on Dec. 10, 2013.
Since that start, more than 172,000 events in Michigan have been broadcast on the NFHS Network. Last school year alone, more than 50,000 events aired. This includes games from all levels – freshman, JV, and varsity. It includes regular-season matchups, all the way through MHSAA Finals. Most games are produced with automated cameras installed in gyms and stadiums. Schools also use student crews to produce broadcasts – providing hands-on learning opportunities for future broadcasters.
More than 600 of the MHSAA’s 752 member schools are partners of the NFHS Network. A monthly subscription to watch is $11.99 – and a portion of that goes back to schools in Michigan. To date, the NFHS Network has shared nearly $1.5 million with partner schools.
If you can’t attend a game in person, watching on the NFHS Network is a great way to support your favorite school.