MHSAA TV Serves Up Key TVC Match
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 18th 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.
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