Semi-State Football Friday

HomeTown Sports and Operation Football will bring the Center Grove vs. Warren Central Football game to 13.3 and channel 81 Friday at 7pm. Check our schedule for replays and look for the game on Comcast VOD.

HomeTown Wins Award

Small Business or Start-up of the Year - HomeTown Television

Other finalists include Culver's of Noblesville and Peterson Architecture.

HomeTown Television's Roy Johnson said the station began as a necessity to better inform the community of its events and sports.

"In 2002 the daily newspaper had gone down to two days a week. There was no local television station, no radio station, no way to distinguish Noblesville and Hamilton County from anywhere else that was just a suburb of Indianapolis," he said. "So we started talking about doing something that was community service oriented. It gave us a chance to kinda look at the heart and soul of the area in which we live and appreciate all the things about this community."

The business is involved within the community in a lot of ways - from covering council meetings to parades and the annual Street Dance - but HomeTown Television is most known for its coverage of Hamilton County high school sporting events.

"We started off with local high school sports - it expanded into doing all the state championships for the IHSAA," said Johnson. "The NCAA, we're doing a lot of things for them now - a lot of the local colleges."

HomeTown Television covers the University of Indianapolis, Wabash College, Marian University and Franklin College with its HomeTown Sports Indiana channel.

"HomeTown Sports Indiana has really evolved into a sports mega station for the state of Indiana," said Johnson. "We not only do all the local high school - football, soccer, basketball, softball, baseball - we've also done things like the NCAA Division I championships in golf at Purdue.

HomeTown Television does a live high school football game on Friday nights, a tape delayed game on Friday night, and covers two college football games on Saturdays.

"To put on these kinds of productions we do, especially the sporting events, it's not just grab a camera and go out there and start filming," said Johnson. "Rick Vanderwielen, the guy who started the company, is the genius behind it all of that because he built it all from scratch, he knows what we need and is constantly improving on what we are putting on there."

On Comcast, HomeTown Television can be found on channel 19. HomeTown Sports Indiana can be found on channel 81.

HomeTown Sports Football Sectional Schedule

HomeTown Sports will be airing:

Lawrence Central at Lawrence North. Live at 7pm, replayed Saturday morning at 9am.

Columbus East at Columbus North. Live on ihsaasport.org, replayed at 12 Noon on Saturday.

Bloomington South at Center Grove. Airs on Saturday at 3pm.

Other replays will be shown. Check our schedule for more times.

Big Explosion Ends Football Game

Wednesday Night is Mustseeracing Night on 81

Race Fans, HomeTown Sports Indiana and Mustseeracing.com are partnering to bring you 5 consecutive weeks of exciting racing. It all starts on Wednesday, September 9th at 8pm with the Payless Little 500 from the Anderson Speedway, the "Worlds Fastest High Banked Quarter Mile Oval". We'll have races from Salem, Winchester and more Anderson Races. Visit www.mustseeracing.com for more information about the schedule of this year's events...Wednesday nights at 8pm on HomeTown Sports Indiana, Comcast 81.

Football Schedule

Our Hometown/WTHR game schedule is as follows:
8/28 HSE vs Fishers
9/4 Roncalli vs Chatard
9/11 Perry Meridian vs Southport
9/18 Zionsville vs Westfield
9/25 TBA
10/2 Ben Davis vs Center Grove
10/9 Plainfield vs Mooresville
10/16 Carmel vs Ben Davis

Noblesville Parade Coverage Canceled

HomeTown will not be covering the July 4th Parade in Noblesville due to the rain.

All Star Game Times UPDATE

The Indiana Jr. Sr. All Star air times on HomeTown 19 have changed. The 1st Boys game will air Wednesday at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30pm. The 1st Girls game will air Thursday at 12p, 4p and 8pm. The second games, will air Saturday beginning at 10am with the girls game followed at 12p with the boys...then repeating the sequence every 4 hours.

Jr. Sr. All Star Basketball Games

HomeTown Sports and WTHR, Channel 13.3 are partnering to air the
Indianapolis Star's Junior-Senior All Star Basketball Series. Game 1
of the series will be at Benton Central High School on June 9th. Game
2 is at New Albany High School on June 11th. Air times on WTHR,
Channel 13.3 are:

Wed, 6/10 7-9p Girls Game 1
Wed, 6/10 9-11p Boys Game 1
Fri, 6/12 7-9p Girls Game 2
Fri, 6/12 9-11p Boys Game 3

Replayed
Sun, 6/14 7-9p Girls Game 1
Sun, 6/14 9-11p Boys Game 1
Mon, 6/15 7-9p Girls Game 2
Mon, 6/15 9-11p Boys Game 2

The senior team's two-game exhibition series against the Kentucky
Senior All-Stars will be played on June 13th at 3pm at Conseco and in
Kentucky on June 14th.

HomeTown Producing D2 NCAA Baseball

HomeTown Sports will produce and webcast the Division II, NCAA baseball championships from Cary, North Carolina. Game dates are 5/23 thru 5/30 and are viewable free at www.ncaa.com. HomeTown Sports, a division of HomeTown Television produces 150+ sporting events yearly for TV and the web. For more information contact Greg Rakestraw, VP of content and programming, greg@hometownsportsindiana.com

The Proms are Coming to 19 !

The wildly popular High School Proms are coming to Channel 19. Here's are the air dates, all beginning at 8pm:

Tipton - April 17th
HSE - April 18th
Noblesville - April 24th
Hamilton Heights - April 25th
Westfield - May 2nd
Fishers - May 9

We'll give away $1000's of dollars every night including a high definition HDTV courtesy of M&I Bank.

Noblesville vs Cincinnati Moeller airs Monday

Catch the Miller baseball team battling Cincinnati Moeller at 12n, 4p and 8p on Monday on Channel 19.

Steve Hurst Honored

NOBLESVILLE, IN March 27, 2009 -- The Miller Backer organization, Noblesville High School’s athletic booster organization, recognized Steve Hurst, the NHS Boys Athletic Director for 25 years of service to Noblesville High School, athletics and support of the Miller Backer organization. At a recent event, Daryl Petry, president of the Miller Backers announced, "One of our ten 2009 Miller Backer athletic scholarships in the amount of $1250.00 will be so designated the Steve Hurst Athletic Scholarship in honor of the Steve's contribution to this community." Hurst announced he will retire at the end of the school year. More information about the Miller Backer organization is available at http://www.millerbackers.org

Royals win Boys Basketball Sectional

The Royals are on a roll thumping Carmel 60-46 in the Noblesville Class 9, 4A sectional championship game. Big Jan and Brad Silbert called the action on HomeTown Saturday Night. After trailing early, the Royals stepped up the defense and shut down the offensive that Carmel had used effectively this year. HSE faces Lawrence North at Hinkle Saturday at 10am in the Regional.

HomeTown Sports Produces Girls Finals

HomeTown & Emmis (1070, the Fan) partnered to produce the 2009 Girls IHSAA Basketball State Championship. What a day! Blake Ress, Commissioner of the IHSAA stated, "This was our finest day".