| FSN plans six-hour block of Friday football |
| Written by David Barron Chron.com |
| Saturday, 23 July 2011 06:25 |
 The Big 12 has put the kibosh, for the moment, on high school football games for ESPN's Longhorn Network, but Fox Sports Net is moving full steam ahead with a six-hour high school block on Friday nights set up similar to the NFL Network's RedZone channel.FSN's Football Friday will include a 30-minute live pregame from the site of a marquee game, a three-hour whiparound show with highlights and updates from as many as 40 games around the state, a live postgame at 10:30 p.m., a regional roundup at 11 p.m., and the long-running High School Scoreboard at midnight. “It's an ambitious project,” said Jon Heidtke, general manager of FS Southwest. “But we think it's a good step to give sports fans access to the teams that they are following most closely.”  Football Friday, staged in conjunction with Dave Campbell's Texas Football, will be hosted by Austin sportscaster Jeff Power and Travis Stewart, Texas Football's managing editor. The site schedule will be announced next week at the Texas High School Coaches Association convention.It won't be entirely analogous to RedZone in that there will be no live action, owing to the University Interscholastic League's rule against live Friday night football broadcasts. But Fox will incorporate camera crews at several dozen sites for highlights that will air throughout the evening, and stringers will use Skype for live updates. Fans also will be encouraged to send in score updates via social media that will run on a crawl throughout the evening. Local plans remain up in the air for the 11 p.m. time slot. Across the northern portion of the state, FS Southwest will simulcast Sports Day HS, a radio show produced by the Dallas Morning News and all-sports radio station KTCK. READ MORE AT MYSA.COM Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites            |
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