MHSAA TV Set for Broadcast Boom
September 6, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
More than 40 Michigan high school games are scheduled to be streamed live online over the next week, produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members on 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.
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, Sept. 5
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Burton Bentley at Otisville Lakeville, 5 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Burton Bentley at Otisville Lakeville , 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 6
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Caro at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Clare at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Fennville at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Clare at Harrison, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 7
- Freshman Football - Vicksburg at Plainwell, 4:30 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 4:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Marlette at Otisville Lakeville, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 5:30 p.m.
- Freshman Football - Corunna at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Vicksburg at Plainwell, 6:15 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Chassell at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Kingsford at Norway, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Marlette at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 8
- Varsity Football - Sturgeon Bay at Norway, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Shepherd at Freeland, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Houghton Lake at Clare, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Hurley at Calumet, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - West Bloomfield at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Traverse City Central vs. Traverse City West, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Lincoln Alcona at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 9
- Junior Varsity Boys Soccer - Holland at Plainwell, 9:30 a.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Holland at Plainwell, 11 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 11
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 12
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Hopkins at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville , 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
- Junior Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 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 second week. Featured games are in football with Calumet at Negaunee, Indian River Inland Lakes at Rogers City, and our first football highlights from a Pixellot school – Ishpeming at Norway. 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 is the projected list of games to be featured on this week’s edition of MHSAA Extra Point:
- Detroit Denby at Detroit Central
- East Grand Rapids at Lowell
- Flat Rock at Milan
- Macomb L'Anse Creuse North at New Baltimore Anchor Bay
- Bloomfield Hills at Clarkston
- Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Farmington Hills Harrison
- West Bloomfield at Lake Orion
- Houghton Lake at Clare
- Sturgeon Bay at Norway
- Plus additional games from the Grand Rapids and Lansing areas, Northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula.
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 is the third of a three-part series on football rules changes for 2017, with this edition talking primarily about face guarding and defensive pass interference.
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.
Montrose To Receive Excellence Awards
By
John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus
September 16, 2015
Montrose High School, the MHSAA School Broadcast Program of the Year for the 2014-15 school year, will be honored at halftime of the Durand at Montrose football game on Friday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
Montrose has won the Program of the Year honor in each of the first two years the MHSAA, in partnership with Herff Jones, has sponsored the School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards. 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 Play-By-Play (Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz – Boys Basketball game vs. Lake Fenton), Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Sports graphics (Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Eric Vandefifer – Girls Soccer match vs. Hemlock), and the top two spots for Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics (Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Griffin Powell, Bradley Payne – Boys Basketball game vs. Goodrich; and Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley – Girls Basketball game vs. Lake Fenton). The program also took a second place for Best Produced Commercial/Feature (Alyssa Bernard, Amanda Ramsey, Alicia Town, Allia Town – Sexual Assault PSA) and a third for Best Multicamera Production (Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Amanda Ramsey, Nathan Brown, Eric Vandefifer, Brandon Smith – Genesee Area Conference Girls Competitive Cheer Finals).
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 seventh 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 the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to stream competition this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv (As of Sept. 14):
- Essexville Garber at Oscoda – Girls Swimming & Diving – Sept. 15 – 5 p.m. – On Demand following event
- Indian River Inland Lakes at Onaway – Girls Volleyball – Sept. 15 – 7 p.m. – On Demand following event
- Mason at Haslett – Girls Volleyball – Wednesday – 6 p.m. - LIVE
- Cheboygan at Onaway – Girls Volleyball – Wednesday – 7 p.m. – On Demand following event
- Zeeland West at Comstock Park – JV Football – Thursday – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Jackson at Haslett – Girls Swimming & Diving – Thursday – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- St. Johns at Haslett – Girls Volleyball – Thursday – 6:30 p.m. - LIVE
- Belding at Cedar Springs – Girls Volleyball – Thursday – 6:45 p.m. – LIVE
- Houghton at Calumet – Girls Volleyball – Thursday – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Kingsford at Marquette – Girls Volleyball – Thursday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Oscoda at Rogers City – Girls Volleyball – Thursday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Cedarville at Onaway – Football – Friday – 7 p.m. – On Demand following event
- Houghton at Calumet – Football – Friday - 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Cedar Springs – Football – Friday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Durand at Montrose – Football – Friday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Iron Mountain at Negaunee – Football – Friday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Manistee at Pinconning – Football – Friday – 7 p.m. – On Demand following event
- Portage Northern at East Lansing – Boys Soccer – Saturday – 10 a.m. – On Demand Following Event
- DeWitt at East Lansing – Boys Soccer – Saturday – 3 p.m. – On Demand Following Event
- Ada Forest Hills Eastern at Cedar Springs – Tuesday (9/22) – 6:45 p.m. – LIVE
- Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet – Tuesday – 7 p.m. – LIVE
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.
This week's MHSAA.tv highlights package includes clips from the South Haven/Plainwell and Lake Fenton/Montrose football games and Chassell/Calumet volleyball match.