MHSAA TV Serves Up Key TVC Match

Highlights

October 4, 2017

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

A battle for control of the Tri-Valley Conference Central takes place today (Oct. 4) on MHSAA.tv when Freeland hosts Saginaw Swan Valley in girls volleyball at 7 p.m.

Swan Valley enters this week’s action 31-8-2 and ranked seventh in the latest Class B coaches poll. Freeland, which garnered honorable mention this week in the same poll, is 26-5-2 overall. Both teams are 3-0 in league play.

Freeland is one of more than 60 MHSAA member schools across the state participating in the

School Broadcast Program, and one of nearly a dozen schools to be streaming live video of its home athletic events using the NFHS Network’s Pixellot technology.

Pixellot 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 can also be patched in. Freeland is one of several schools in the state using Pixellot in its gymnasium and at its football/multipurpose field.

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:

Tuesday, October 3

Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Lansing Everett at Fowlerville, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Girls Volleyball – Manistique at Negaunee, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, October 4

Freshman Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 5 p.m.
JV Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 6 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 7 p.m.

Thursday, October 5

Freshman Football – Sturgis at Plainwell, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Mio at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
JV Girls Volleyball – Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 6 p.m.
Freshman Girls Volleyball – Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
JV Football – Standish-Sterling at Freeland, 6 p.m.
JV Girls Volleyball – Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
JV Football – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
JV Football – Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:15 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - West Iron County at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Menominee at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Girls Volleyball – Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 6

Football - Lakeland Union (WI) vs. Marquette @ Superior Dome, 7 p.m.
Football – Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
Football - Sanford Meridian at Clare, 7 p.m.
Football - Lake Orion at Oxford, 7 p.m.
Football – Mt. Morris at Montrose, 7 p.m.
Football – Manistique at Negaunee, 7 p.m.

Monday, October 9

JV Boys Soccer – Paw Paw at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
Freshman Girls Volleyball – Plainwell Quad, 5 p.m.
JV Girls Volleyball – Escanaba at Norway, 6 p.m.
Boys Soccer - Paw Paw at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell 8 in D2, PP 18^th D3
Girls Volleyball - Escanaba at Norway, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 10

Girls Volleyball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Negaunee at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
Girls Volleyball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
Girls Volleyball - Merrill at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.

NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 per 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 will also 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.

Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members are in their fifth week. Featured events are in girls volleyball with Clarkston at Lake Orion, football with Lowell at Cedar Springs and football with Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville. Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.

More than 15 football games are featured each week on the State Champs! Sports Network Extra Point – powered by the Michigan High School Athletic Association – Saturday at 10 a.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.

The half-hour program features highlights from more than a dozen games each week, including clips from games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members. The program airs multiple times each weekend on FOX Sports Detroit and on Comcast Channel 900, and will be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.

Here are some of the games to be featured this week on State Champs! Extra Point:

Chelsea at Ypsilanti
Warren Mott at Romeo
Redford Union at Redford Thurston
Clarkston Everest at Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes
Warren Fitzgerald at Madison Heights Madison
Hudsonville at Caledonia
PLUS - Additional coverage from Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Upper Peninsula and School Broadcast Program games.

The MHSAA also has a presence on other State Champs! Network programs throughout each weekend. The MHSAA Minute is a weekly part of the State Champs! High School Sports Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 9 a.m. every Sunday – with multiple replays on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 throughout the week. That program also is archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.

This week’s MHSAA Minute on State Champs talks about concussion protocols and the Association’s concussion insurance program.

The MHSAA also has content on the State Champs Scoreboard! High School Football Radio Show on Friday nights during the football and basketball seasons, originating on WXYT-FM (97.1) in Detroit and carried on more than 10 radio stations across the state. This Week In High School Sports and Be the Referee are weekly features on the program.

Highlights

MHSAA TV Sets OAA Red Volleyball Race

October 15, 2019

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

The chase for the Oakland Activities Association Red volleyball title will get a lot of attention on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network this week, with matches on Tuesday (Oct. 15) and Thursday (Oct. 17) that will determine the champion.

Clarkston enters the week on top of the Red at 5-0 in division play with Lake Orion and Rochester Hills Stoney Creek chasing the Wolves at 4-1. Lake Orion is at Stoney Creek on Tuesday, while Clarkston can clinch at least a share of the title hosting Rochester Adams (3-2) – both games will be streamed live on MHSAA.tv. On Thursday, Clarkston at Troy (1-4) and Adams at Lake Orion will both be streamed live, while West Bloomfield (2-3) is at Stoney Creek.

Clarkston was the highest-ranked OAA team in last week’s statewide coaches poll, and Lake Orion was an honorable mention.

Among School Broadcast Program-produced football streams Friday (Oct. 18) is Grand Rapids Christian at East Grand Rapids for the lead in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Gold. Saline can clinch the Southeastern Conference Red title with a win over visiting Ann Arbor Pioneer, but a Pioneer win would put both teams tied at the top and possibly be joined by Temperance Bedford. Fowler is at Pewamo-Westphalia to determine the Central Michigan Athletic Conference crown.

Plus, Boys District Semifinal and Final games from a number of sites around the state will be streamed. Here’s the complete list of varsity-level events to be broadcast live during the coming week:

All of the games are produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program – with East Lansing, Lake Orion, Pewamo-Westphalia, Saline, Marquette, Fowlerville, Montrose and Comstock Park deploying traditional, hands-on, student crew crews to capture the action. The other games are produced by schools using Pixellot – the NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution.

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 $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 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.

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