Prep Zone Includes Facebook Live Stream
October 25, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
There’s a new twist as the MHSAA Football Playoffs – powered by the Michigan Army National Guard – begin their seventh season on FOX Sports Detroit’s PrepZone. One of the four games each week also will be streamed on Facebook Live.
Each Monday for the first four weeks of the Playoffs, a FOX Sports Detroit Twitter poll will be conducted for 24 hours to select one game to be available on Facebook. This week’s poll was won by Livonia Franklin at Walled Lake Western, which garnered more than 50 percent of the vote.
The four live games each week will be free on the FOX Sports Detroit Website and will also be available to mobile users of FOX Sports GO! Authentication may be required to watch on FS GO!
Here’s this week’s PrepZone schedule. All games kick off Friday (Oct. 27) at 7 p.m.:
- Lowell at Flushing
- Livonia Franklin at Walled Lake Western
- Grand Rapids Christian at DeWitt
- Lansing Catholic at Olivet
In addition to the games on FOXSportsDetroit.com, a number of additional Playoff games this weekend will be streamed live on MHSAA.tv by School Broadcast Program participants. That schedule includes (all games Friday at 7 p.m.):
- Midland Dow at Traverse City West
- Tecumseh at East Lansing
- Coopersville at Comstock Park
- Remus Chippewa Hills at Clare
- Carrollton at Freeland
- Laingsburg at Montrose
- Oscoda at Breckenridge
- Bark River-Harris at Norway
- Parma Western at Haslett
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 24
- JV Girls Volleyball – Munising at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – New Lothrop at Montrose, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Portland at Fowlerville, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Hancock at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Munising at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 25
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball - Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Munising at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Munising at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 26
- Boys Soccer – Goodrich at East Lansing, 5 p.m. (Div. 2 Regional Semifinal)
- Boys Soccer – Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Petoskey at East Lansing, 7 p.m. (Div. 2 Regional Semifinal)
Friday, October 27
- Football - Midland Dow at Traverse City West, 7 p.m. (Div. 2 Pre-District)
- Football - Carrollton at Freeland, 7 p.m. (Div. 5 Pre-District)
- Football - Bark-River Harris at Norway, 7 p.m. (Div. 8 Pre-District)
- Football - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 7 p.m. (Div. 4 Pre-District)
- Football - Oscoda at Breckenridge, 7 p.m. (Div. 7 Pre-District)
- Football – Laingsburg at Montrose, 7 p.m. (Div. 6 Pre-District)
- Football – Tecumseh at East Lansing, 7 p.m. (Div. 3 Pre-District)
- Football – Remus Chippewa Hills at Clare, 7 p.m. (Div. 5 Pre-District)
- Football – Parma Western at Haslett, 7 p.m. (Div. 3 Pre-District)
Saturday, October 28
- Boys Soccer – Division 2 Regional Final at East Lansing, 5 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 30
- Girls Volleyball - Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville, 5 p.m. (Class B District)
- Girls Volleyball - Tawas Area vs. Gladwin at Harrison, 6 p.m. (Class B District)
- Girls Volleyball - Williamston vs. Haslett at Fowlerville, 7 p.m. (Class B District)
- Girls Volleyball - Ogemaw Heights vs. Standish Sterling at Harrison, 7:15 p.m. (Class B District)
Wednesday, Nov. 1
- Girls Volleyball – Clarkston at Lake Orion, 5:30 p.m. (Class A District)
- Girls Volleyball – Tawas-Gladwin winner at Harrison, 6 p.m. (Class B District)
- Girls Volleyball – Ogemaw Heights-Standish Sterling winner vs. Grayling at Harrison, 7:15 p.m. (Class B District)
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 Month Pass purchased this week would enable a viewer to access all of the live MHSAA Tournament action this fall. That schedule includes:
- Saturday Specials - Weekly Football Playoff Coverage on Nov. 4 and Nov. 11
- MHSAA Boys Soccer Finals on Nov. 4
- MHSAA Girls Volleyball Semifinals & Finals – Nov. 16-18
- MHSAA Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals – Nov. 18
- Super Streaming Saturday – All 16 Football Semifinal Games – Nov. 18
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
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 highlights package consists of clips from football games Montrose at Birch Run, Coldwater at Traverse City West and Corunna at Fowlerville. Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
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:
- Livonia Churchill at Pinckney
- Romeo at Rochester Adams
- Detroit Central at Clintondale
- Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard at Algonac
- Grand Rapids Christian at DeWitt
- Lowell at Flushing
- Livonia Franklin at Walled Lake Western
- Lansing Catholic at Olivet
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 local officials associations.
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.
Winter Tournament Action Begins Online
February 7, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
This week marks the beginning of seven weeks of live streaming video of MHSAA winter tournaments on MHSAA.tv, with a number of 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, District Wrestling activity will be covered by Comstock Park, Otisville-LakeVille, Lake Orion, Freeland and Montrose.
The NFHS Network will provide six straight weekends of tournament coverage this winter. 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 99 games on this week’s SBP schedule, 65 at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. Fifty-five 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.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Tuesday – February 6
- JV Boys Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Saline at Novi - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North, 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Saline at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Fowlerville - 6:59 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville Lakeville - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Saline at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Rochester Adams at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Farwell at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Houghton at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Wednesday – February 7
- Boys Basketball – Ewen-Trout Creek vs. Dollar Bay at Michigan Tech - 7:15 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Ewen Trout-Creek vs. Dollar Bay at Michigan Tech - 5:30 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Otisville Lakeville - 5 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Comstock Park – 5:30 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Freeland - 6 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Lake Orion - 6 p.m.
- Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Comstock Park – 7 p.m.
Thursday – February 8
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Sparta at Comstock Park – 4 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Big Rapids at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Roscommon at Harrison - 6 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Negaunee at Calumet - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Pontiac at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Big Rapids at Fremont - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Escanaba at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Baraga at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Roscommon at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
Friday – February 9
- Freshman Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Durand at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Ionia at Fowlerville - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Otsego at Plainwell - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Durand at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Ashley at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville Lakeville - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Port Huron Northern at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - L'Anse at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Ionia at Fowlerville - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Otsego at Plainwell - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 8 p.m.
Saturday – February 10
- Wrestling – MHSAA Individual District at Montrose – 10 a.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – University of Detroit Jesuit at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6:15 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Livonia Stevenson at Detroit Catholic Central - 7:30 p.m.
Monday – February 12
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Warren Mott at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Mio at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Bark River-Harris at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Mio at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Bark River-Harris at Norway - 8 p.m.
Tuesday – February 13
- 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 – Corunna at Fowlerville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Stanton Central Montcalm at Fremont - 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 – Corunna at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Rochester at Lake Orion - 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.
- Girls Basketball - Munising at Norway - 8 p.m.
Wednesday – February 14
- Cheerleading – OK Conference at Comstock Park - 6:30 p.m.
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 lacking the ability to staff the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
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 – which both included game-winning buzzer-beaters in comeback efforts:
- Girls Basketball – Charlevoix 50, Traverse City St. Francis 48
- Boys Basketball – Brighton 57, Novi 56
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 talks about the School Broadcast Program. Archived editions of MHSAA Minute can be found on the StateChamps! YouTube Channel.