Fox Sports Detroit is in a position to play a little more football.
While the NBA and NHL are still in playoff mode and don’t know when their next normal seasons will begin, Fox Sports Detroit fills some of that programming gap with the weekly policy of the best football games in schools.
As of Friday, October 2, FSD plans to stream 3 of the games across the state, with the game on linear TV and two more games in FoxSportsDetroit. com. FSD will also offer a weekly one-hour summary, with highlights of even more games.
Former Michigan Quarterback Devin Gardner will be one of the game’s analysts and summaries.
“We were on the calendar and found out we didn’t have live events in October, November or December,” said Greg Hammaren, senior vice president and general manager of FSD. “So we start with what we can do to help ourselves, assist our enthusiasts, and assist our partners.
“We discovered the theme of football in the best schools easily. “
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FSD has long won the Michigan High School Athletic Association football finals at Ford Field, but it’s new territory that makes the leap into the politics of normal seasonal games.
All games will be called from FSD Studios in Southfield, and analysts will cancel games on monitors, as they have for many Tiger games this season. Analysts will have access to camera angles and audio returned from all 3 live gaming sites. paints with a third-party production company, Rush Media, to help install trucks on all 3 sites.
FSD will work with MHSAA on the week’s most productive games, focusing on expanding across the state, not just staying on the Detroit subway.
“We need to decide on the most productive games available,” Hammaren said. “We will use our most productive judgment, with input from the MHSAA. “
Among the games planned for SDF policy:
October 2, West Bloomfield to Clarkston (linear), Harper Woods to Davison (transmission).
October 9, Macomb Dakota to Utica Eisenhower (linear), Hudsonville to Caledonia (transmission) and Livonia Stevenson and Livonia Franklin (transmission).
October 16, River Rouge in Detroit Catholic Central (linear) and Dearborn in Dearborn Fordson (transmission).
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Play-by-play advertisers are still developing. Gardner, an Inkster local who played in Michigan from 2010 to 2014, will be a game analyst and will also provide research for the weekly recap program. Trevor Thompson and Brooke Fletcher of FSD will report separately from the gaming sites and present the summary.
The “High School Football Overtime” summary will be broadcast for one hour from 9:30 p. m. at 10:30 p. m. , and will be presented in turn through John Keating and Mickey York of FSD. FSD will have many other game video clips for the summary.
“We think it will be a lot of fun, especially with the environment,” Hammaren said, adding that the recap screen will be broadcast several times over the weekend.
Hammaren said that FSD, which broadcast for example a summary of the football program in high school over the years, for the first time in 2011, can make preparatory football a fundamental detail in the coming years, but not at this level, given the number of Tigers. , Pistons and Red Wings are held on Friday nights.
It’s too early to say what the SDF’s plan for this year’s national football finals will be, which would possibly have to locate separate locations for the department if their classic home, Ford Field, is unavailable.
High school football began in Michigan late last week after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer accepted some executive orders related to touch sports. MHSAA had planned to postpone the season.
The FSD broadcasts regular-season games for the Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings, but the Tigers season is almost over and the Pistons and Red Wings will likely restart until December 1 and broadcast the Lions’ weekly star-time game on Wednesday night, and also acquired 15 GAMES from ACC and Conference USA.
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