SBP Excellence Awards Accepting Entries
January 17, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Applications are being accepted for the MHSAA’s fifth annual SBP Excellence Awards, which recognize the efforts of member schools participating in the School Broadcast Program for content produced during the 2017-18 school year.
SBP schools can submit up to two entries in each of six categories: best single-camera production, best multi-camera production, best use of graphics, best produced local commercials/features, best student play-by-play announcers and best highlight clip.
The SBP Excellence Awards will be used in selecting the Program of the Year. Other criteria for Program of the Year include quantity and quality of productions and sports covered, best command of graphics software, initiative to cover home and away athletic contests and initiative/creative in selling local advertising and subscriptions.
Montrose High School has won the Program of the Year award the past four years.
More details about the 2017-18 SBP Excellence Awards, and an online entry form, can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website. (For more details, CLICK HERE; to go to the entry form, CLICK HERE)
The deadline for submitting entries is Feb. 16, 2018, at 4 p.m.
More than 90 live sporting events are scheduled on MHSAA.tv this week, produced by SBP participants. A total of 55 games at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. 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 – the NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution - is used by schools that wish to live stream games but lack the ability to staff the events. The 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 16
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville - 4 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Kent City at Comstock Park - 4:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Genesee at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Lake City at Harrison - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Onaway at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Stephenson at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Onaway at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Kent City at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Ferndale at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Mason at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey - Escanaba at Marquette - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Genesee at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Sault St. Marie at Negaunee – 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Bellaire at Onaway – 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Houghton at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Grant at Fremont - 7:19 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Lake City at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Stephenson at Norway - 8 p.m.
Wednesday - January 17
- Wrestling - Paw Paw at Plainwell - 5:30 p.m.
- Cheerleading - Lake Fenton at Montrose - 6 p.m.
Thursday, January 18
- Freshman Boys Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 4 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Burton Bendle at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Howard City Tri County at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Hancock at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Beaverton at Harrison - 6 p.m.
- Girls Gymnastics – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Negaunee - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Cooks-Big Bay de Noc at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Southfield at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Howard City Tri County at Fremont - 7 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Hancock at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Beaverton at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Cooks-Big Bay de Noc at Norway - 8 p.m.
Friday – January 19
- JV Girls Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Bessemer at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Hillman at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville - 6 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Traverse City at Alpena - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - North Dickinson at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Hillman at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Bessemer at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville - 7:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 7:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - North Dickinson at Norway - 8 p.m.
Saturday – January 20
- Cheerleading - Harrison Invitational - 9:45 a.m.
- Cheerleading - Freeland Invitational - 12 p.m.
- Boys Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Warren DeLaSalle - 2:30 p.m.
Monday – January 21
- Boys Basketball - Alma at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Lake Linden Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Tuesday – January 22
- Freshman Boys Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Otisville-Lakeville at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Howell at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Montrose at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Jeffers at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - South Haven at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Bessemer at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Niagara (WI) at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Allendale at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Otisville-Lakeville at Montrose - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Montrose at Otisville-Lakeville - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Howell at Novi - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball - Tawas Area at Rogers City - 7 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 p.m.
Wednesday – January 24
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball - Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
- Cheerleading - Allendale at Comstock Park - 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Basketball - Sault Ste. Marie at Alpena - 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North - 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Escanaba at Negaunee – 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 – Detroit Catholic Central 6, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 3
- Boys Basketball – Mt. Pleasant 56, Midland 54
- Girls Basketball – Alpena 57, Traverse City West 45
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 promotes the upcoming Women In Sports Leadership Conference. Archived editions of MHSAA Minute can be found on the StateChamps! YouTube Channel.
MHSAA.tv Live Postseason Views Approach 1 Million for 2020-21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
July 14, 2021
Live postseason events streamed on MHSAA.tv during the 2020-21 school year were viewed nearly 1 million times, with 15 events drawing more than 10,000 live views apiece.
The final championship weekend of the Spring – featuring Girls Soccer Finals and Baseball and Softball Semifinals & Finals, all across four divisions June 17-19 at Michigan State University – saw nearly 70,000 live views on MHSAA.tv despite record attendance of those events at Old College Field.
The Division 2 Softball championship game – which ended with Owosso claiming its first Finals title in any sport, drew a weekend-high 5,677 live views on the network. The previous weekend, the Division 1 Girls Lacrosse Final won by Rockford on June 12 led the way with 4,284 live views.
The total number of live postseason views on MHSAA.tv for 2020-21 was 962,371. The most-viewed live tournament events were the Individual and Team Wrestling Finals, which with all rounds over all four divisions combined drew 244,044 live views. Among individual games broadcast solely by MHSAA.tv, the Division 3 Boys Basketball Semifinal matching Iron Mountain and Schoolcraft (15,393 live views) and the Division 1 Volleyball Semifinal featuring Novi and Lowell (13,484) ranked among the most watched.
MHSAA.tv is a partner of the NFHS Network. Postseason events streamed on MHSAA.tv included most sports’ Finals, and Semifinals and Quarterfinals for some – especially sports where multiple concluding rounds were hosted by the same tournament site.
MHSAA.tv also ranked second among NFHS Network contributing states with 18,973 live events (postseason and regular-season combined) streamed during the 2020-21 school year. That total of nearly 19,000 live postseason events was an increase from 7,710 events streamed live during 2019-20 and 3,900 during 2018-19, and placed Michigan behind only Illinois.
The School Broadcast Program is responsible for nearly all production of regular-season events. Having now concluded its 13th year, the SBP 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. Rockford – one of the state’s largest schools with nearly 2,500 students – broadcast 242 events, drawing an SBP-high 74,437 live views and 89,604 total with on-demand replays included. Much smaller Pewamo-Westphalia, a school of 300 students, received the second-most views of SBP members in 2020-21 with 56,009 including live and on-demand. Marquette, Lake Orion, Cedar Springs, Montrose and McBain also were among top SBP providers.
In addition to bringing local events on air nationally, the School Broadcast Program gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions. NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 per month. Subscribers receive access to all live and on-demand video from across the country. School Broadcast Program participants receive a portion of every subscription sold by a school to benefit its program.
Broadcasts from the majority of Michigan schools – especially those lacking the ability to staff events for production – are streamed using a Pixellot automated camera. Michigan schools have 774 Pixellots in service, third-most in the country behind only Texas and California. Most Michigan schools have one camera at an outdoor stadium and a second at the main indoor gymnasium.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.