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Montrose To Be Recognized Friday
September 13, 2016
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
Montrose High School, the MHSAA School Broadcast Program of the Year for the third straight year, will be honored at halftime of the Flint Beecher at Montrose football game on Friday (Sept. 16). Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
Montrose won the Program of the Year honor again in 2015-16 and was also honored by the NFHS Network as one of its Elite SBP schools nationwide. In addition to repeating as the top school in the program, Montrose captured first place honors in three of the five individual categories.
Montrose took first place in Best Student Play-By-Play (Eric Vandefifer and Conner Pyrc – Boys Basketball game v. Goodrich), and the top two spots for Best Produced Commercial/Feature (Eric Vandefifer, Conner Pyrc, Jared Adams, Mandy Ramsey, John Blackford – Ford Field Trip Feature; and Amanda Ramsey, Jared Adams, Alyssa Bernard, – RAINN Sexual Assault PSA). The program also took second and third place for Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics (Eric Vandefifer, Conner Pyrc, Jared Adams, Mandy Ramsey, John Blackford – Boys Basketball game v. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy; and Peyton Hobson, John Blackford, Conner Pyrc – Boys Basketball game v. Corunna); and third place in Best Multicamera Production (Eric Vandefifer, Conner Pyrc, Jared Adams, Mandy Ramsey, John Blackford – Boys Basketball game v. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy). Montrose also demonstrated during the year a good blend of productions in a variety of sports covered, the ability to cover home and away events and an overall command of the PlayOn! Sports software used for graphics and inserting commercials/features during the course of productions.
The presentation will be shown live on MHSAA.tv as one of a number of live events being streamed online this year by School Broadcast Program members.
In its eighth 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.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams available being produced by SBP members, as well as live stats from MHSAA member schools using Digital Scout:
Tuesday – Sept. 13
- Girls Volleyball – Hancock at Calumet – 7 p.m. - LIVE
Wednesday – Sept. 14
- Boys Soccer – Lansing Eastern at East Lansing – 6:30 p.m. – On Demand
Thursday – Sept. 15
- Girls Swimming & Diving – Okemos at East Lansing – 6 p.m. – On Demand
- Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Girls Volleyball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park – 6 p.m. - LIVE
Friday – Sept. 16
- Football – Flint Beecher at Montrose – 6:45 p.m. – LIVE
- Football – Escanaba at Marquette – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Football – Lansing Eastern at East Lansing – 7 p.m. – On Demand
- Football – Farwell at Clare – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Football – Hillman at Rogers City – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Football – Oxford at Lake Orion – 7 p.m. – LIVE VIDEO & STATS
- Football – Allendale at Comstock Park – 7 p.m. – LIVE VIDEO & STATS
- Football – Star International Academy v. Detroit Cesar Chavez Academy – 4:30 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Livonia Churchill v. Plymouth – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Maple City Glen Lake v. Onekama – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Ledge v. Okemos – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central v. Greenville – STATS
- Football – Grass Lake v. Manchester – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Rapids Christian v. Grand Rapids South Christian – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Oakland Christian v. Sterling Heights Parkway Christian – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Harbor Beach v. Marlette – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Eaton Rapids v. Fowlerville – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Haven v. Holland West Ottawa – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Brighton v. South Lyon – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Hart v. Whitehall – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Traverse Academy v. Marion – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Addison v. Napoleon – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Fenton v. Flint Kearsley – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Davison v. Flint Southwestern Academy – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Hanover-Horton v. Vandercook Lake – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Lake Odessa Lakewood v. Vermontville Maple Valley – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Corunna v. Goodrich – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Bellevue v. Adrian Lenawee Christian – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – New Boston Huron v. Monroe SMCC – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grosse Pointe South v. Utica Ford – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Midland v. Mt. Pleasant – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Flint Hamady v. New Lothrop – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Iron Mountain v. Negaunee – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Houghton Lake v. Sanford Meridian – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Erie-Mason v. Hillsdale – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Calumet v. Houghton – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Saginaw Arthur Hill v. Bay City Central – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Laingsburg v. Potterville – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Owosso v. Lansing Waverly – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian v. Grandville Calvin Christian – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Port Huron Northern v. St. Clair – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Hemlock v. St. Louis – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Stanton Central Montcalm v. Newaygo – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Battle Creek Harper Creek v. Hastings – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Dryden v. Mayville – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – St. Clair Shores Lakeview v. Madison Heights Madison – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Adrian v. Tecumseh – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Portage Central v. Traverse City Central – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Lansing Everett v. Holt – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – North Muskegon v. Ravenna – 7 p.m. – STATS
- Football – Coopersville v. Sparta – 7 p.m. – STATS
Saturday, Sept. 17
- Football – Lutheran Westland v. Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest – 1 p.m. - STATS
Tuesday – Sept. 20
- Girls Volleyball – Fairview at Rogers City – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Girls JV Volleyball – Fairview at Rogers City – 6 p.m. - LIVE
The NFHS Network has announced new pricing for 2016-17, eliminating the Day Pass and lowering the cost of a Month Pass to $9.95. 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. Some schools also will be selling Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
The SBP programming schedule is expected to expand now that school is in session across the state. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website. Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
A weekly staple on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube is back for another year with highlights of selected games last week produced by members of the Association’s School Broadcast Program. This week's package includes clips from the St. Clair/Clinton Township Clintondale and Traverse City Central/West football games, plus highlights from the Central/West "Patriot Game" festivities.
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MHSAA TV Kickoff Returns Highlights
August 22, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Weekly statewide football highlights return to cable viewers across Michigan in 2017, with the Michigan High School Athletic Association and the State Champs! Sports Network teaming up to launch “MHSAA Extra Point” beginning this week.
The half hour program will feature highlights from more than a dozen games each week, including clips from games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members. Lorne Plant and Daniella Bruce from the State Champs! Sports Network will host the show, which will air multiple times each weekend on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 and be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
Here is the projected list of games to be featured on this week’s first edition of MHSAA Extra Point:
- Belleville vs. Brighton at Ann Arbor
- DeWitt at Grand Rapids Christian
- Walled Lake Western vs. West Bloomfield at Detroit
- Davison vs. Southfield A&T at Detroit
- Rockford vs. Saline at Ann Arbor
- Rapid River vs. Powers North Central
- Lowell vs. Warren De La Salle at Detroit
- Detroit U-D Jesuit at Birmingham Brother Rice
- Ishpeming vs. Iron Mountain
- Byron at Montrose
- Lake Orion at Clinton Township Chippewa Valley
- Bay City Western at Traverse City Central
- Bay City John Glenn at Freeland
The MHSAA also will have a presence on State Champs! Network programming throughout each weekend with the “MHSAA Minute” making its debut on this Sunday’s (Aug. 26) edition of the weekly State Champs! High School Sports Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 9 a.m., with multiple replays on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 throughout the week. The program also will be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
This week’s MHSAA Minute is the first of a three-part series on football rules changes for 2017; the first edition talks about blind side blocks. The MHSAA also will have 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 being carried on more than 10 radio stations across the state.
The MHSAA.tv Website starts the 2017 football season in a big way this week, with the NFHS Network streaming 14 games over three days from the Vehicle City Gridiron Classic at Flint’s Atwood Stadium on Thursday (Aug. 24), the West Michigan Sports Commission Gridiron Classic at Grand Valley State University on Saturday (Aug. 26), and all three days of the Prep Kickoff Classic at Wayne State University, running Thursday through Saturday. The first two days of coverage at the PKC will be produced by the NFHS Network; Saturday’s games will be a live stream produced by Comcast to air on a delayed basis on Channel 900.
Topping off the weekend’s streaming activity will be a number of games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members – including the first gridiron and volleyball events in Michigan to be streamed with a new product from the NFHS Network.
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. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
A number of new schools are joining the program using an automated production solution – Pixellot – which was first installed in Michigan earlier this year at Otisville Lakeville. Most Pixellot schools will install their first unit in the gymnasium, but several schools – Novi, Freeland, Plainwell, Norway and Ovid-Elsie – also are installing a second unit at multi-purpose fields to cover sports like football, soccer and lacrosse. The Pixellot system requires only that a schedule be entered online to cover an event, making things like a basketball double or tripleheader easy to stream without staffing worries.
Freeland will use Pixellot to live stream a volleyball match with Bay City Western on Thursday at 1 p.m., followed by a football game against Bay City John Glenn at 7 p.m. Other Pixellot schools are Calumet, Fremont, Harrison, Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest and Otisville Lakeville.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Tuesday, Aug. 22
- Boys Soccer - Haslett at East Lansing – 6:30 p.m. (On-Demand)
Wednesday Aug. 23
- Freshman Football – Grand Rapids Northview at Comstock Park – 4:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football – Grand Rapids Northview at Comstock Park – 6 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 24
- Football – Vehicle City Gridiron Classic – Flint
- Goodrich vs. Burton Bendle – 1 p.m.
- Flushing vs Linden – 4 p.m.
- Flint Carman-Ainsworth vs. Grand Blanc – 7 p.m.
- Prep Kickoff Classic – Detroit
- Walled Lake Western vs. West Bloomfield – 4 p.m.
- Davison vs. Southfield – 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Freeland – 1 p.m. - Pixellot
- Football – Byron at Montrose – 7 p.m.
- Football – Lake Orion at Clinton Township Chippewa Valley – 7 p.m.
- Football – Bay City John Glenn at Freeland – 7 p.m. – Pixellot
- Football – Bay City Western at Traverse City Central – 7 p.m.
- Football – Haslett at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 25
- Prep Kickoff Classic – Detroit
- Almont vs. Grosse Ile – 4 p.m.
- Lowell vs. Warren DeLaSalle – 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 26
- West Michigan Sports Commission Gridiron Classic – Allendale
- Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Spring Lake – 10:30 a.m.
- East Kentwood vs. Macomb L'Anse Creuse North – 1:30 p.m.
- Kent City vs. Ravenna – 4:30 p.m.
- Greenville vs. North Farmington – 7:30 p.m.
- Prep Kickoff Classic – Detroit
- River Rouge vs. East English Village Prep – 12 p.m.
- Oak Park vs. Utica Eisenhower – 3 p.m.
- Detroit Martin Luther King vs. Indianapolis Cathedral – 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 29
- Boys Soccer - Grand Rapids West Catholic at Comstock Park – 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 30
- JV Boys Soccer – Whitehall at Plainwell – 4 p.m.
- Freshman Football – Breckenridge at Freeland – 4:30 p.m. – Pixellot
- Boys Soccer – Whitehall at Plainwell – 5:45 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football – Chesaning at Freeland – 6 p.m. - Pixellot
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.