Watch Selection Sunday Show on FSD
October 16, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Selection Sunday officially turns the page from the regular season in Michigan high school football to the postseason, and the qualifiers and pairings for the 44th MHSAA Football Playoffs will be announced Sunday (Oct. 21) at 7 p.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.
In addition to being available on the primary FOX Sports Detroit channel on cable, the Selection Sunday Show also can be viewed on the internet through the FoxSportsDetroit.com Website, and on handheld devices and television streaming devices like Roku using the FOX Sports app.
The Selection Sunday Show kicks off this year’s Football Playoff coverage on FOX, which will include an opening night game on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS, Prep Zone games the first four weeks of the tournament on the FoxSportsDetroit.com Website and the FOX Sports app, the 8-Player Finals live online and delayed on FOX Sports Detroit and all eight games of the 11-Player Finals live on FOX Sports Detroit or FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. It’s all part of the second “Football Week In Michigan” promotion on FOX Sports.
But first, Week 9 games take place to conclude football’s regular season – and there’s plenty of live streaming boys soccer District and regular-season girls volleyball action this week on MHSAA.tv, being produced by participants of the School Broadcast Program.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network (Check this list online at MHSAA.com for updates throughout the week as SBP members schedule additional games.):
Tuesday - Oct. 16
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 4:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Salem at Howell - 4:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Napoleon at Manchester - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Negaunee Quad - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Carney-Nadeau at Norway - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Salem at Howell - 6:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Napoleon at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Carney-Nadeau at Norway - 7:15 PM
Wednesday - Oct. 17
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Kalamazoo Central at Stevensville Lakeshore – 6:20 PM
Thursday - Oct. 18
- Freshman Football – TBA at Howell - 3:55 PM
- Freshman Football – TBA at Brighton - 4:20 PM
- Freshman Football - Freeland at Frankenmuth - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Football – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Football - Grand Blanc at Saline - 4:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Football - Freeland at Frankenmuth - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 6 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Calvin Christian at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 6 PM
- JV Football - Richmond at Ovid-Elsie - 6 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Powers North Central at Norway - 6 PM
- Swimming and Diving - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 6 PM
- JV Football - West Iron County at Norway - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Ypsilanti at Manchester - 6:30 PM
- JV Football – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 6 PM
- JV Football - Grand Blanc at Saline - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - TBA at Howell – 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Calvin Christian at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Kingsford at Marquette - 7 PM
- Football – Ishpeming Westwood at Negaunee - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Powers North Central at Norway - 7:15 PM
Friday - Oct. 19
- Field Hockey - Chelsea at Novi - 5 PM
- JV Football – TBA at Howell - 6:45 PM
- Football - Mattawan at Stevensville Lakeshore – 6:55 PM
- Football - Lake Orion at Monroe - 7 PM
- Football – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- Football - Montrose at Pittsford - 7 PM
- Football - Frankenmuth at Freeland - 7 PM
- Football - Saline at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Saturday - Oct. 20
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ski Valley Conference Championship - 8:30 AM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ski Valley Conference Championship - 12 PM
- Boys Soccer District Final at Freeland - Noon
Tuesday - Oct. 23
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Three Rivers at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Escanaba at Marquette - 7 PM
Potential Boys Regional Semifinal Soccer Games at Cedar Springs – 5 PM & 7 PM
All sporting events – live or delayed - 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.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a month. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on-demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. School Broadcast Program participants also will be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
MHSAA.tv Live Postseason Views Approach 1 Million for 2020-21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
July 14, 2021
Live postseason events streamed on MHSAA.tv during the 2020-21 school year were viewed nearly 1 million times, with 15 events drawing more than 10,000 live views apiece.
The final championship weekend of the Spring – featuring Girls Soccer Finals and Baseball and Softball Semifinals & Finals, all across four divisions June 17-19 at Michigan State University – saw nearly 70,000 live views on MHSAA.tv despite record attendance of those events at Old College Field.
The Division 2 Softball championship game – which ended with Owosso claiming its first Finals title in any sport, drew a weekend-high 5,677 live views on the network. The previous weekend, the Division 1 Girls Lacrosse Final won by Rockford on June 12 led the way with 4,284 live views.
The total number of live postseason views on MHSAA.tv for 2020-21 was 962,371. The most-viewed live tournament events were the Individual and Team Wrestling Finals, which with all rounds over all four divisions combined drew 244,044 live views. Among individual games broadcast solely by MHSAA.tv, the Division 3 Boys Basketball Semifinal matching Iron Mountain and Schoolcraft (15,393 live views) and the Division 1 Volleyball Semifinal featuring Novi and Lowell (13,484) ranked among the most watched.
MHSAA.tv is a partner of the NFHS Network. Postseason events streamed on MHSAA.tv included most sports’ Finals, and Semifinals and Quarterfinals for some – especially sports where multiple concluding rounds were hosted by the same tournament site.
MHSAA.tv also ranked second among NFHS Network contributing states with 18,973 live events (postseason and regular-season combined) streamed during the 2020-21 school year. That total of nearly 19,000 live postseason events was an increase from 7,710 events streamed live during 2019-20 and 3,900 during 2018-19, and placed Michigan behind only Illinois.
The School Broadcast Program is responsible for nearly all production of regular-season events. Having now concluded its 13th year, the SBP 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. Rockford – one of the state’s largest schools with nearly 2,500 students – broadcast 242 events, drawing an SBP-high 74,437 live views and 89,604 total with on-demand replays included. Much smaller Pewamo-Westphalia, a school of 300 students, received the second-most views of SBP members in 2020-21 with 56,009 including live and on-demand. Marquette, Lake Orion, Cedar Springs, Montrose and McBain also were among top SBP providers.
In addition to bringing local events on air nationally, the School Broadcast Program gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions. NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 per month. Subscribers receive access to all live and on-demand video from across the country. School Broadcast Program participants receive a portion of every subscription sold by a school to benefit its program.
Broadcasts from the majority of Michigan schools – especially those lacking the ability to staff events for production – are streamed using a Pixellot automated camera. Michigan schools have 774 Pixellots in service, third-most in the country behind only Texas and California. Most Michigan schools have one camera at an outdoor stadium and a second at the main indoor gymnasium.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.