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.
UP Swim/Dive Finals On MHSAA TV
February 13, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Swimming and diving action kicks off live streaming video coverage of MHSAA Championships on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network this week at the Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals at Marquette High School.
Friday’s (Feb. 16) coverage of the Diving Finals begins at 2:30 p.m., and the Swimming Finals on Saturday (Feb. 17) commence at 10 a.m.
The U.P. Swimming & Diving Finals will be joined this week by live action in Wrestling and Girls Competitive Cheer on MHSAA.tv, with those events being produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program.
School Broadcast Program participants cover tournament games which take place at their facilities as a condition of membership in the program. SBP schools also play a major role in the production of Quarterfinal games in the Boys and Girls Basketball Tournaments in March.
This week, Team Wrestling Regional coverage will take place at Freeland, Fremont and Marquette on Wednesday (Feb. 14), and Competitive Cheer Districts will be covered by Comstock Park and Novi.
The NFHS Network will provide six straight weekends of tournament coverage this winter on MHSAA.tv. Here’s the complete schedule:
- Feb. 16-17 – Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals
- Feb. 22-24 – Team Dual Wrestling Quarterfinals-Semifinals-Finals
- March 2-3 – Individual Wrestling Finals
- March 2-3 – Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
- March 8-10 – Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals
- March 13 – Girls Basketball Quarterfinals
- March 15-16 – Girls Basketball Semifinals
- March 20 – Boys Basketball Quarterfinals
- March 22-23 – Boys Basketball Semifinals
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 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.
Of the record 115 events on this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule, 72 at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. A record 67 events will be produced by schools using Pixellot, the NFHS Network’s automated coverage solution. Be sure to check “Upcoming Events” on the MHSAA.tv home page daily for last-minute additions.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Tuesday - February 13
- JV Boys Basketball - Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Greenville at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Fowlerville at Corunna - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Stanton Central Montcalm at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Plainwell at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Munising at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Merrill at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Stanton Central Montcalm at Fremont - 7 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Houghton at Calumet - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Greenville at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Corunna - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Rochester at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Plainwell at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Wakefield-Marinesco at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Gladstone at Negaunee - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Munising at Norway - 8 p.m.
Wednesday - February 14
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team Regional Semifinal at Freeland
- Semifinals – 6 p.m. – Birch Run v. Yale; Freeland v. Mt. Morris
- Finals – 7:30 p.m. (Approximate time after semifinals)
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team Regional Semifinal at Fremont
- Semifinals – 6 p.m. - Fremont v. Kent City; Comstock Park v. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
- Finals – 7:30 p.m. (Approximate time after semifinals)
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team Regional Semifinal at Marquette – Marquette v. Gaylord – 6 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team Regional Semifinal at Marquette – St. Johns v. Flint Kearsley – 6 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team Regional Final at Marquette – 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Competitive Cheer – OK Conference at Comstock Park - 6:30 p.m.
Thursday - February 15
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Hackett Catholic at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Shepherd at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 5 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hackett Catholic at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Houghton Lake at Harrison - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Shepherd at Freeland - 6 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Houghton at Marquette - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Clarkston at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Hackett Catholic at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Dollar Bay at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Houghton Lake at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Shepherd at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
Friday - February 16
- Upper Peninsula Diving Finals at Marquette – 2:30 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Basketball – Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - TBA at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Burton Bendle at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Chassell at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hillman at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Williamston at Fowlerville - 6 p.m.
- Girls Competitive Cheer – MHSAA Districts at Comstock Park - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 6 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Hillman at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - TBA at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Chassell at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Painesdale Jeffers at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Notre Dame Prep at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Williamston at Fowlerville - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Ishpeming Westwood at Negaunee - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday - February 17
- Upper Peninsula Swimming Finals at Marquette – 10 a.m.
- Girls Competitive Cheer – MHSAA District at Novi - 11 a.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Flint Powers Catholic at Lake Orion - 2 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Detroit Catholic Central at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – TBA v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - TBA
- Wrestling – MHSAA Individual Regional Fremont - TBA
Monday - February 19
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Saginaw Arts & Sciences Nouvel at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Grant at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Baraga at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Eben Junction Superior Central at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Breckenridge at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Grant at Fremont - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Baraga at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Eben Junction Superior Central at Norway - 8 p.m.
Tuesday - February 20
- Coed Basketball - Northville at Novi - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Escanaba at Calumet - 5 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Byron at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Dowagiac at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – St. Johns at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Dowagiac at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday - February 21