Big Hoops Tip Off on MHSAA TV
November 28, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Winter sports get off to a fast start on MHSAA.tv in the coming week, with a heavy load of basketball games being produced by School Broadcast Program members.
The new sports season also begins with several schools new to the program utilizing the NFHS Network’s new Pixellot technology to stream home athletic events. The latest active additions to the program are Dollar Bay, Macomb Lutheran North and Novi. There are now more than a dozen Pixellot schools in the program, and more will come online throughout the winter.
Pixellot enables schools to produce more games than they can generally find students to cover – meaning that a basketball tripleheader can be streamed instead of only the varsity contest. All the participating school has to do is enter the events it wants covered – athletic and non-athletic – into the system.
Pixelott is a unit equipped with four High Definition cameras which cover the length of the playing surface and then focus in on the ball and player movement to deliver the action. The unit communicates with the scoreboard to insert a time and score graphic on the screen. Ambient audio is picked up by the device, but the play-by-play of an in-person announce team also can be patched in.
In its ninth year, the School Broadcast Program 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. Pixellot is used by schools wishing to stream games but which lack the ability to staff the events. The SBP program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Monday – Nov. 27
Swimming & Diving – Manistique at Marquette – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday – Nov. 28
Freshman Girls Basketball - Mattawan at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Mattawan at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Lake City at Harrison - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Utica Eisenhower at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Mattawan at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Lake City at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 8 p.m.
Thursday – Nov. 29
JV Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Skyline at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Skyline at Novi - 7 p.m.
Friday - Dec. 1
Freshman Girls Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Midland at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Holland at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Midland at Freeland - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Holland at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Birmingham Groves at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Calumet - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Midland at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Norway - 8 p.m.
Saturday - Dec. 2
Girls Competitive Cheer – Novi Invitational - 9 a.m.
Girls Competitive Cheer – Plainwell Invitational - 10 a.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingwood at Calumet - 7 p.m.
Monday - Dec. 4
Freshman Boys Basketball – Bay City Western at Freeland - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Bay City Western at Freeland - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Holly at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Tuesday - Dec. 5
Freshman Girls Basketball - Portage Northern at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Hamilton at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Otisville LakeVille - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Ann Arbor Skyline at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Portage Northern at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Livonia Ladywood at Macomb Lutheran North - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Cheboygan at Alpena - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Hamilton at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Auburn Hills Avondale at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Otisville LakeVille - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Ann Arbor Skyline at Novi - 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Marquette at Calumet - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Gladstone at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Portage Northern at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Livonia Ladywood at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday - Dec. 6
JV Girls Basketball - South Lyon at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - South Lyon at Novi - 7 p.m.
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.
Football Rivalries Top This Week’s MHSAA.tv, Media Partner Broadcast Schedules
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
September 22, 2021
A series of football rivalries will be showcased on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network, as well as media partners Bally Sports Detroit and State Champs! Sports Network during another busy weekend of broadcasts Sept. 24-26.
This week’s Bally Sports Detroit live cable football broadcast will feature Lansing-area rivals Grand Ledge (4-0) and DeWitt (3-1) at 7 p.m. Friday with first place on the line in the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue. That game can be watched on BSD’s PLUS channel or online on BSD’s website or app. On Sunday, State Champs will broadcast live on its website the annual “Boys Bowl” between Detroit Catholic League Central contenders Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice (3-1) and Detroit Catholic Central (3-1), with kickoff at 1 p.m.
This weekend’s MHSAA.tv football schedule includes more than 165 games, including a number of notable Friday night rivalry clashes. Annual powers Rockford (4-0) and Hudsonville (2-2) are among four teams undefeated in Ottawa-Kent Conference Red play after two league games, and Dearborn Fordson (4-0) takes on Belleville (3-1) in a matchup that regularly helps decide the Kensington Lakes Activities Association East champion. Pewamo-Westphalia (4-0) faces Fowler (2-2) for first place in the Central Michigan Athletic Conference, Edwardsburg (4-0) and Plainwell (4-0) match up to decide the leader in the Wolverine Conference, and Frankenmuth (4-0) and Freeland (4-0) will clash for first place in the Tri-Valley Conference East. While not a league game, Boyne City (4-0) and Traverse City St. Francis (4-0) also will meet in a matchup of undefeated teams.
See links below to those and a few more events of note being broadcast on the Network this week:
FOOTBALL
Sept. 24, 6:35 p.m.: Fowler at Pewamo-Westphalia
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Novi at Canton
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Belleville at Fordson
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Freeland at Frankenmuth
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: West Bloomfield at Lake Orion
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Montrose at New Lothrop
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Edwardsburg at Plainwell
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Hudsonville at Rockford
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Muskegon Mona Shores at Zeeland East
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Romeo
Sept. 25, 1 p.m.: Boyne City at Traverse City St. Francis
VOLLEYBALL
Sept. 22, 5:25 p.m.: Kalamazoo Central at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix
Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.: Maple City Glen Lake at Leland
Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.: Cadillac at Gaylord
BOYS SOCCER
Sept. 22, 6 p.m.: Midland at Flint Powers Catholic
Sept. 25, 10 a.m.: Berkley at Rochester
Sept. 25, 12:30 p.m.: Auburn Hills Oakland Christian at Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
The MHSAA.tv schedule total also includes more than 200 volleyball and more than 80 boys soccer matches this week. Click the links below to see all three sports’ listings in full:
Football – Volleyball – Boys Soccer
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 per month. Subscribers have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. School Broadcast Program participants benefit as a portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
More than 400 MHSAA member schools are participants in the School Broadcast Program, now in its 13th year, producing games using traditional hands-on student crews or via Pixellot cameras installed at stadiums and gymnasiums across the state. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.