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.
Hockey Showdowns Highlight Dot-TV
January 23, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Two showdowns of top-five teams in Division 1 ice hockey highlight this week’s schedule of events on MHSAA.tv being produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program.
Second-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s hosts Division 2 second-ranked Birmingham Brother Rice on Wednesday (Jan. 24) and fifth-ranked Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood on Saturday (Jan. 27) in contests at the St. Mary’s Athletic Complex. Face-off each night is 7:30 p.m.
More than 100 live sporting events are scheduled on MHSAA.tv this week, produced by SBP participants. A total of 58 games at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. Sixty-nine of the games 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.
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 live stream games, but that 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, January 23
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Whitehall at Fremont – 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Howell at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Otisville Lakeville at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Montrose at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Bessemer at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Whitehall at Fremont – 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Niagara (WI) at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Montrose at Otisville Lakeville - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Otisville Lakeville at Montrose - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Howell at Novi - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Bessemer at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Negaunee - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Niagara (WI) at Norway - 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 24
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Copper County Christian at Dollar Bay – 5:45 p.m.
- Cheerleading - Allendale at Comstock Park - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Sault Ste. Marie at Alpena - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Hancock at Dollar Bay – 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Escanaba at Negaunee - 7:30 p.m.
- Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 25
- Freshman Girls Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:00 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Durand at Otisville Lakeville - 4:00 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Remus Chippewa Hills at Fremont – 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Coopersville at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Remus Chippewa Hills at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Durand at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 6:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Remus Chippewa Hills at Fremont - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Kingsford at Marquette - 7:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Durand at Otisville Lakeville - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Kingsford at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion - 7:45 p.m.
Friday, January 26
- Freshman Girls Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Grand Blanc at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Farwell at Harrison - 6:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Coopersville at Comstock Park - 6:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Fowlerville at Eaton Rapids - 6:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Paw Paw at Plainwell - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Atlanta at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Grand Blanc at Novi - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Traverse City West at Alpena - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Atlanta at Rogers City - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - North Farmington at Lake Orion - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay - 7:14 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Grand Rapids Christian at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Paw Paw at Plainwell - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Farwell at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Coopersville at Comstock Park - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Eaton Rapids - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - TBA at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Norway - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 27
- Boys Ice Hockey - Kingsford at Calumet - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Berkley at Lake Orion - 8:00 p.m.
Monday, January 29
- JV Boys Basketball – Bessemer at Dollar Bay – 5:45 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Bessemer at Dollar Bay – 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, January 30
- JV Boys Basketball - Brighton at Novi - 4:00 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Cedar Springs at Fremont - 4:00 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Fruitport at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Copper County Christian at Dollar Bay – 5:45 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City - 6:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Fruitport at Comstock Park - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Royal Oak at Lake Orion - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Stockbridge - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Stockbridge at Fowlerville - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Brighton at Novi - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City - 7:00 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Alpena - 7:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Watersmeet at Dollar Bay – 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Dearborn Divine Child at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 31
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 4:30 p.m.
- Wrestling – Reed City at Fremont – 5:30 p.m.
- Wrestling – Standish-Sterling at Freeland - 6:00 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 6:00 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Clare at Harrison - 7:30 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 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 feature the following events:
- Ice Hockey – Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 3, Trenton 2
- Girls Basketball – Comstock Park 54, Spring Lake 52
- Boys Basketball – Novi 71, Livonia Stevenson 61
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
With the winter sports season fully underway, StateChamps! High School Sports Show returns with new weekly editions debuting each Sunday at 9 a.m. on Fox Sports Detroit – featuring fresh editions of the MHSAA Minute.
The MHSAA Minute takes a look each week at different things happening in the life of the Association, from promoting educational programs to rules changes in high school sports. This week’s Minute discusses intentional fouls in basketball. Archived editions of MHSAA Minute can be found on the StateChamps! YouTube Channel.