OAA, TVC Showdowns to Stream Live
October 2, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The top spots in divisions in two leagues are up for grabs this week on MHSAA.tv, part of a live video streaming buffet of over 75 events being produced by participants of the School Broadcast Program.
On Tuesday (Oct. 2), the top spot in the Oakland Activities Association Red in volleyball is on the line when No. 9 (Division 1 coaches poll) Rochester Hills Stoney Creek and No. 3 Lake Orion square off at Lake Orion at 7 p.m. Both are 4-0 in OAA play.
Then on Friday (Oct. 5), the Tri-Valley Conference East football title will be settled when Millington travels to Frankenmuth for a 7 p.m. clash. Both teams are 5-1 overall, 4-0 in league play, and ranked in the top 10 in different divisions in media polls this week.
The TVC also has another football match-up of top-ranked teams on MHSAA.tv this week. On Friday, Alma is at Freeland at 7 p.m. While both teams are tied for second behind No. 2-ranked (Division 5) Saginaw Swan Valley in the TVC Central, they are both in the top 10 in Division 4.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network:
Tuesday - Oct. 2
- JV Girls Volleyball - Hartland at Howell - 4:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Boys Soccer - Allendale at Comstock Park - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Hartland at Howell - 6:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - East Jackson at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - East Jackson at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
Wednesday - Oct. 3
- Freshman Boys Soccer – Canton at Saline – 4 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian – 4:15 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- JV Field Hockey - Dexter at Saline - 5:30 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- Field Hockey - Dexter at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
Thursday - Oct. 4
- Freshman Football – Canton at Howell – 3:55 PM
- JV Football – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – 4 PM
- Field Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart at Novi - 4:15 PM
- Freshman Football - Coopersville at Comstock Park - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Football - Bay City John Glenn at Saginaw Heritage - 4:30 PM
- Middle School Girls Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 4:30 PM
- JV Boys Soccer - Sturgis at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Sturgis at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Burton Atherton at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Soccer – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Calumet - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Football - Bay City John Glenn at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- JV Football - Byron at Ovid-Elsie - 6 PM
- JV Football - Bay City at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- Boys Soccer - Sturgis at Plainwell - 6:15 PM
- JV Football - Bessemer at Negaunee - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Calumet - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Addison at Manchester - 6:30 PM
- JV Football – Canton at Howell – 6:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Burton Atherton at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Boys Soccer – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 7 PM
Friday - Oct. 5
- Football - Bloomfield Hills at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Football – Fowlerville at St. Johns – 7 PM
- Football - Houghton at Calumet - 7 PM
- Football - Millington at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
- Football - Alma at Freeland - 7 PM
- Football – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Football - Hartland at Novi - 7 PM
- Football - Salem at Brighton - 7 PM
Saturday - Oct. 6
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Heritage Invitational – 8:30 AM
- Girls Volleyball – Ovid-Elsie Invitational – 8:30 AM
- Field Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Saline - 10 AM
- JV Field Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Saline - 11:30 AM
- JV Boys Soccer - Rochester Adams at Saline - 12 PM
- Boys Soccer - Rochester Adams at Saline - 1 PM
Monday - Oct. 8
- Boys Soccer - Clinton at Manchester - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Plainwell Quad - 5 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball - Hopkins at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:30 PM
Tuesday - Oct. 9
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Calumet at Negaunee – 4:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Northville at Novi - 5 PM
- Field Hockey - East Grand Rapids at Novi - 5 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Michigan Center at Manchester - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Niles Brandywine at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Field Hockey - East Grand Rapids at Novi - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Northville at Novi - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Calumet at Negaunee - 6:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Michigan Center at Manchester - 7 PM
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.
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 also will be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
Highlights of games broadcast during the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members include clips from the Saginaw Heritage/Bay City Central and Stevensville Lakeshore/Battle Creek Lakeview football games and Freeland/Saginaw Swan Valley volleyball match.
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Football Week in Michigan Airs on FOX
October 10, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The MHSAA Football Playoff Finals – powered by the Michigan Army National Guard – dominate the schedule for FOX Sports Detroit’s first annual “Football Week In Michigan” this November.
Over eight days – November 18-25 – the best in high school, college and professional football involving Michigan teams will be featured on a variety of FOX video platforms – FOX Sports Detroit, FS1, FOX Sports GO!, Big Ten Network and FOX over-the-air television.
MHSAA championship football games provide 10 of the 13 games during FWIM. The prep schedule begins on Nov. 18 with the two divisions of the 8-Player Football Finals live from the Superior Dome in Marquette on FOX Sports GO! Those games will then be re-aired early in the week on FOX Sports Detroit.
Seven of the eight 11-Player Football Finals on Nov. 24-25 will be shown live on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS, the exception being the Division 4 game on Nov. 24, which will be shown on a same-day delayed basis on FOX Sports Detroit that evening at 11:30 p.m. All of the 11-Player Finals will be available live on FOX Sports Go!
Over-the-air FOX television affiliates in Michigan also will have the option to carry 11-Player Final games in their markets if they have a local team participating in a game. Participating affiliates are: Alpena – WBKB-DT2 (11.2); Cadillac – WFQX-TV (32); Detroit – WJBK-TV (2); Flint – WSMH-TV (66); Grand Rapids – WXMI-TV (17); Lansing – WSYM-TV (47); Marquette – WLUC-DT2 (6.2); Sault Ste. Marie – WWUP-DT2 (10.2); Vanderbilt – WFUP-TV (45). Check local listings Thanksgiving week for games to be shown locally.
Football Week In Michigan officially was recognized last week in a Proclamation by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
FOX Sports Detroit’s MHSAA Football Playoff coverage begins Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. with the announcement of the pairings for the 2017 Playoffs on the Selection Sunday Show on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. Throughout the Playoffs leading up to the 11-Player Finals, the FOX Sports Detroit Prep Zone returns to feature four games each week which can be viewed live on FoxSportsDetroit.com and FOX Sports GO!
A share of the Mid-Eastern Football Conference title is on the line Friday (Oct. 13) at 7 p.m. when Norway hosts Lake Linden-Hubbell in a game that can be watched live on MHSAA.tv.
The winner of the game will tie Newberry for the league title. The Indians completed league play last week with a 28-14 win over Norway. Norway is 6-1 overall, and Lake Linden-Hubbell is 3-3.
Norway is one of more than 60 MHSAA member schools across the state participating in the School Broadcast Program, one of nearly a dozen schools to be streaming live video of its home athletic events using the NFHS Network’s Pixellot technology and one of three schools currently using Pixellot in their gymnasiums and football/multi-purpose fields.
Pixellot is a unit equipped with four High Definition cameras which cover the length of the playing surface and then focus 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 also can be patched in.
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 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.
Thursday, October 12
- Varsity/JV/Freshman Girls Volleyball - Paw Paw at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
- Boys Soccer - Spring Lake at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Boys Soccer - Otsego at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Wyoming Godwin Heights at Wyoming Lee, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Troy at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
Friday, October 13
- JV Football – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Norway, 3 p.m.
- Boys Soccer – Grand Rapids West Michigan Aviation Academy at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Football - East Kentwood at Rockford, 7 p.m.
- Football - Sparta at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Football - Owosso at Flint Kearsley, 7 p.m.
- Football – Birmingham Brother Rice at Traverse City West, 7 p.m.
- Football - Paw Paw at Plainwell, 7 p.m.
- Football - Carrollton at Freeland, 7 p.m.
- Football – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Norway, 7 p.m.
- Football - Bessemer at Calumet, 7 p.m.
- Football - Roscommon at Clare, 7 p.m.
Monday, October 16
- JV Girls Volleyball - Plainwell Quad, 5 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Bay City Central at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball - West Iron County at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - West Iron County at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 17
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Allendale at Comstock Park, 5 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Oscoda at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Allendale at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Mt. Morris at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Mt. Morris at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Mt. Morris at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Lansing Everett at East Lansing, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 18
- Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 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 back for another week. Featured events are in girls volleyball with Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, football with Newberry at Norway and boys soccer with Lansing Everett 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:
- Wyandotte Roosevelt at Gibraltar Carlson
- Algonac at Richmond
- Berkley at Farmington Hills Harrison
- Detroit Catholic Central at Warren DeLaSalle
- Grand Blanc at Livonia Franklin
- Muskegon at Muskegon Mona Shores
- Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Portland
- 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 Selection Sunday.
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.