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.
MHSAA TV Set for Record Winter
December 4, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The MHSAA.tv record for most events broadcast during one week is likely to be broken regularly this winter.
This week, more than 200 events from athletic contests to school board meetings to school musicals will be streamed live over the MHSAA.tv page on the NFHS Network, with those events produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program.
Three more schools using the Network’s automated production solution – Pixellot – have indoor units coming online this week: Southfield Christian, St. Clair Shores Lake Shore and Stevensville Lakeshore. Of the 74 schools in the School Broadcast Program, more than 50 use Pixellot to stream some or all of their games.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network:
Tuesday, Dec. 4
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 4 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Portage Northern at Plainwell - 4:15 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Brighton Cheryl Stockwell Academy at Fowlerville - 4:30 PM
- Middle School Girls Basketball - Plymouth Christian at Southfield Christian - 4:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers Catholic - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – St. Clair Shores Lakeview at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 4:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - North Branch at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Birch Run at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Alanson at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Alanson at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Okemos at Novi - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Fowler at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Otisville-Lakeville at Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Rapid River at Norway - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Huron Valley at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Portage Northern at Plainwell - 5:45 PM
- Boys Basketball – Brighton Cheryl Stockwell Academy at Fowlerville - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – St. Clair Shores Lakeview at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 4:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Breckenridge at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Ogemaw Heights at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers Catholic - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - North Branch at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:50 PM
- Boys Basketball - Wyoming Kelloggsville at Comstock Park - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Melvindale at Saline - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Troy Athens at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Okemos at Novi - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Birch Run at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Birch Run at Mt. Morris - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Fowler at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Rapid River at Norway - 7 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Salem at Saline - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Otisville-Lakeville at Flint Kearsley - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball – Westland Huron Valley Lutheran at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Escanaba at Negaunee - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball - Breckenridge at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Flushing at Flint Powers Catholic - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park – 7:30 PM
Wednesday, Dec. 5
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Bridgeport at Freeland - 4:30 PM
- Wrestling - Quad at Mt. Morris - 5 PM
- Wrestling – Quad at Howell w/Dearborn, Hartland, South Lyon – 5:20 PM
- Boys Basketball - Fife Lake Forest Area at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Fife Lake Forest Area at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- Wrestling - Lake Fenton @ Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Bridgeport at Freeland - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Chesaning at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Wrestling - North Branch at Otisville-Lakeville - 6 PM
- Wrestling – Quad at Hemlock w/Breckenridge, St. Charles, Midland Bullock Creek - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Chesaning at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Bridgeport at Freeland - 7:30 PM
Thursday, Dec. 6
- Middle School Boys Basketball - Chassell at Dollar Bay - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Olivet at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – New Haven at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 4:30 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 5:15 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Lansing Eastern at Fowlerville - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Mackinaw City at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Mackinaw City at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – New Haven at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 6 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Chesaning at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Gladwin at Harrison - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball – Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart at Southfield Christian - 6 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 6 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Lansing Eastern at Fowlerville - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Romeo at Waterford Our Lady - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball – New Haven at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 7:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Chesaning at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey – CHSL Tournament-Opponent TBA at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:30 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey – Birmingham Groves at Lake Orion - 7:45 PM
Friday, Dec. 7
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Linden at Howell - 3:50 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Warren DeLaSalle - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 4 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Three Rivers at Plainwell - 4:15 PM
- Girls Basketball - Lapeer at Howell - 5:20 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Burton Bentley at Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Pontiac at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – Flint Southwestern @ Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – Warren Fitzgerald at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Olivet at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – Walled Lake Western at Novi - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Ypsilanti at Saline - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Ypsilanti at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – St. Clair Shores Lake Shore at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
- Boys & Girls Basketball - St. Joseph at Stevensville Lakeshore - 5:35 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Hancock at Dollar Bay - 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Calumet - 5:45 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Three Rivers at Plainwell - 5:45 PM
- Girls Basketball - Gladwin at Harrison - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - Lawton at Kalamazoo Christian - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Muskegon Oakridge at Hart - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Saginaw Valley Lutheran at St. Charles - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Lansing Eastern at Fowlerville - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Linden at Howell&a