Wednesday, October 14, 2009

WorldNow, KXXT Waco Turn to MaxPreps Widget

The WorldNow media company continues to go to bat for its clients in the area of prep sports coverage, using, of course, the MaxPreps.com widget. This one comes to us from KXXT-TV News Channel 25 in Waco, Texas:

http://tinyurl.com/yfaxfxv


WorldNow lists among its other clients CBS Radio, Media General and Cox.

SuperTalk Mississippi Backs Up Talk With MaxPreps Widget

For over 30 years, TeleSouth Communications, Inc. has been providing high-quality broadcast services to listeners throughout the Southeast. With properties such as SuperTalk Network, Mississippi News Network, Southern Urban Network and Collegiate Sports, TeleSouth Communications is poised to deliver solid results.

For its network of eight talk radio stations in Mississippi - the SuperTalk Network - new media director Bob Sullender is using the MaxPreps.com Data Widget to deliver listener-specific content to each of those eight market:

http://www.supertalk.fm/pages/4992478.php


Tuesday, October 13, 2009

MaxPreps Widget Has Western Colorado Covered

The Daily Sentinel has been western Colorado's chronicle of record since 1893. Published in Grand Junction, Co., the newspaper is western Colorado's largest and is distributed throughout a vast geographical area ranging from the Wyoming border on the north, to Red Mountain Pass and the San Juan Mountain range to the south, Moab and Grand County, Utah, to the west and Glenwood Springs and Aspen's Roaring Fork River valley to the east.

To help cover the 35 high schools in its vast circulation area, the Daily Sentinel uses the MaxPreps widget:



Thursday, October 8, 2009

MaxPreps.com Widget a Hit With Massachusetts Volleyball

The Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association is open to all high school girls coaches in the state. This includes varsity, junior varsity, freshman and assistant coaches. The MGVCA also attracts coaching memberships from other states throughout the country, chiefly due to the extensive video lending library that it maintains.


To keep track of statistics in Massachusetts, the MGVCA uses the MaxPreps data widget:


Monday, October 5, 2009

San Diego Local News Powered by MaxPreps Widget

The San Diego News Network is a major regional news and information website in San Diego County. It offers a broad range of hyper-local content from a variety of sources, including a full-time staff of contributing editors, freelance writers, bloggers, and a consortium of media partners.

MaxPreps.com is one of its media partners, and the MaxPreps' data widget delivers to SDNN viewers the complete content of all high school football in the area:

www.sdnn.com/sandiego/sports

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Road to Syracuse Driven By MaxPreps.com Widget

John Moriello was always ahead of the crowd when he worked for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in the 1980s and 1990s, taking high school sports coverage to unprecedented levels while helping usher in the digital age of prep coverage for newspapers.

Now Moriello, president of the New York State Sportswriters Association, has taken the Empire State football beat to another level with his new and rapidly-growing Road to Syracuse site:

http://www.roadtosyracuse.com/

WDBJ-TV Blankets Southwestern Virginia With MaxPreps Widget

WDBJ-TV in southwestern Virginia began broadcasting in the Mountain Trust Bank Building in downtown Roanoke, when the station first signed on the air in 1955. Today, in addition to its relatively new Hershberger Road facility and the Poor Mountain transmitter site, WDBJ 7 operates local newsrooms in Lynchburg , Blacksburg and Richmond.

The station's web site, operated in conjunction with the WorldNow media company, maintains individual team web sites for 61 high school football programs in its coverage area by deploying a separate MaxPreps widget on each page. Its main landing page for prep sports is called the WDBJ-7 Friday Football Extra:


http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/category.asp?C=142512

MaxPreps Helps KUSI News Stay Local

KUSI 9 News in San Diego is the rarest of the rare, a true independent television station competing with nine network affiliates (including Spanish language stations and PBS). Its independence allows KUSI to be 100 percent local, able to break at any time for important news stories.

Already more than 7 1/2 hours a day are dedicated to local news on weekdays, and 4 1/2 hours a day on weekends. Plus, KUSI features live newsbreaks every hour between newscasts, so viewers are never more than thirty minutes away from the latest breaking news stories.

On the web, the station stays local, too, with its high school sports coverage, using the MaxPreps widget:

http://www.kusi.com/ppr/stats

Sunday, September 13, 2009

MaxPreps.com Widget Crosses State Lines in MI, IN

CBS television station WSBT 22 in Mishawaka, Ind., has found a dynamic way to utilize the MaxPreps.com data widget in covering schools in both Indiana and Michigan.

Its web site displays a primary 40-team football module on its "Friday Night Fever" page, then dedicates another section to the 13 schools in its core coverage area, with each school boasting its own widget:

http://www.wsbt.com/sports/59054667.html


http://www.wsbt.com/younews?schools=main

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Comcast Southeast Has It All Covered With MaxPreps.com Widgets

Comcast Southeast Sports has put together a nice package of high school coverage over seven states - AL, FL, GA, MS, SC, TN and TX - using the MaxPreps data widget: