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.
42 MIHL Showcase Games to Stream Live
February 4, 2020
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The NFHS Network has completed arrangements with LiveBarn for the live video streaming of the 20th Annual MIHL Prep Hockey Showcase this Thursday through Saturday (Feb. 6-8) at Kennedy Recreation Center in Trenton.
All 42 games over the three-day event will be available on a subscription basis on MHSAA.tv and LiveBarn. To get directly to the games on MHSAA.tv – Click Here. Here’s the complete schedule:
Thursday - Feb. 6
5:20 p.m. Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
5:40 p.m. Grosse Pointe North vs. Allen Park Cabrini
6 p.m. Lake Orion vs. Plymouth
7:20 p.m. Port Huron Northern vs. Rochester United
7:40 p.m. Ann Arbor Skyline vs. Novi
8 p.m. Riverview Gabriel Richard vs. Howell
Friday - Feb. 7
9:30 a.m. Grosse Pointe South vs. Salem
9:50 a.m. Grandville vs. Detroit County Day
10:10 a.m. Hancock vs. Utica Eisenhower
11:30 a.m. Orchard Lake St. Mary's vs. Traverse City Central
11:50 a.m. Brighton vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
12:10 p.m. Flint Powers vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
1:30 p.m. Calumet vs. Livonia Stevenson
1:50 p.m. Plymouth vs. Byron Center
2:10 p.m. East Grand Rapids vs Ann Arbor Skyline
4 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood vs. Hartland
4:40 p.m. Allen Park Cabrini vs Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern
4:20 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice vs. Saginaw Heritage
6 p.m. Detroit Catholic Central vs. Green Bay Notre Dame Academy
6:20 p.m. Detroit U-D Jesuit vs. Midland Dow
6:40 p.m. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett vs. Big Rapids
8 p.m. Trenton vs. Cleveland St. Ignatius
8:20 p.m. Houghton vs. Riverview Gabriel Richard
8:40 p.m. Port Huron Northern vs. Grand Rapids Christian
Saturday - Feb. 8
8 a.m. Detroit Country Day vs. Midland Dow
8:20 a.m. Howell vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
8:40 a.m. Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs. Hancock
10 a.m. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice vs. Green Bay Notre Dame Academy
10:20 a.m. Grosse Pointe South vs. Grandville
10:40 a.m. Big Rapids vs East Grand Rapids
Noon Trenton vs. Calumet
12:20 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood vs. Houghton
12:40 p.m. Traverse City Central vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern
2:30 p.m. Livonia Stevenson vs. Saginaw Heritage
2:50 p.m. Orchard Lake St. Mary's vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
3:10 p.m. Byron Center vs. Flint Powers
4:30 p.m. Detroit Catholic Central vs. Hartland
4:50 p.m. Cleveland St. Ignatius vs. Brighton
5:10 p.m. Grand Rapids Christian vs. Utica Eisenhower
6:30 p.m. Detroit U-D Jesuit vs. Salem
6:50 p.m. Novi vs. Lake Orion
7:10 p.m. Grosse Pointe North vs. Rochester United
The Showcase is part of a week of nearly 600 live events on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network. You can Click Here to look at the latest list of all upcoming varsity games.
Now in its 11th 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 – The NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution – is used by schools wishing to live stream games but lacking the ability to staff the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 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 benefit as 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.