Former Central grad York joins new FOX Sports Net team
Former CMU graduate and WEYI-TV 25 (NBC) sportscaster Mickey York was
recently hired by FOX Sports Net.
A 1992 CMU graduate, York was a part of the WEYI sports
team for approximately four years.
FOX Sports Net hired York as its second local reporter
for the Detroit edition of the 11 p.m. Regional Sports Report, the nightly
30-minute news show that premiered June 21.
"This is an outstanding move for me. To work with a
top-10 network like Fox is a dream job for me," York said.
"Right now, there's nothing else I want to do. I'm
looking to get involved here (FOX) and do some good things."
"The concept of the (11 p.m. Regional Sports Report)
is a great thing for the marketplace in that it provides viewers a different
and more complete look at the local sports scene."
The 11 p.m. Regional Sports Report provides a comprehensive
look at the world of sports from a local perspective, meaning more coverage
of the Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, Pistons, Wolverines, Spartans and other
teams, as well as the personalities and events making sports news in this
region.
The format provides for heavy emphasis on key local
stories and scores, and how important national stories impact local fans.
The Detroit edition of the 11 p.m. Regional Sports
Report serves the 2.4 million cable and satellite households viewing FOX
Sports Net throughout Michigan and portions of Northwest Ohio and Northern
Indiana.
York has also worked as a sideline reporter on FOX
Sports Net's coverage of the Michigan High School Athletic Association
basketball and football championships each of the last two years.
His broadcast experience includes being a reporter/producer
on Detroit Pistons projects for Palace Sports and Entertainment and as
sports director at community based CHTV-TV in Sterling Heights.
York, a native of Mount Clemens, who moved to Lake
Orion as a teenager, graduated from Central with a degree in broadcast
and cinematic arts with a minor in advertising.
"Attending CMU provided great preparation and opportunities
I couldn't get anywhere else," York said.
"CMU gave me opportunities to get involved. Nobody
held me back and I took advantage of my time here."
York also worked for Moore Hall Television.
"I tried to do as much as I could outside the classroom,
working at News Central and hosting my own sports show my senior year
with a couple of other students. My time at CMU was an invaluable experience."
York said he recommends anyone majoring in BCA to become
involved in MHTV as soon as possible.
"There's no one there stopping you. You can only learn
so much in the classroom and that's an opportunity at MHTV and at the
radio station," he said.
The preparation York received from CMU aided him greatly
in his career and in getting this promotion, he said.
"I think it (CMU) was a big help," York said in a previous
CM LIFE article.
He said he became involved in sports casting because
he was an athlete and sports was something he always enjoyed.
York was also a walk-on football player for CMU.
"I always liked that stuff (sports) and had a flair
for performing in some aspect or form, so I pretty much knew when I got
to Central that's what I wanted to do," he said in the past LIFE article.
York, along with his wife, Cassandra and three-month-old
daughter McKayla, resides in Waterford.
