ABC Affiliate Knows the Value of Prep Data

Web manager Randy Klein at KTRK-TV in Houston is continuing his quest to provide the best in high school football coverage for the station’s web site, ABC13.com. To mark the opening of the 2009 season, Klein has ramped up ABC13’s content with a 126-school MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://tinyurl.com/n2ud43

Comcast Entertainment Partner in CO Deploys Widget

Ingrum Sports Production Network (ISPN) is a locally owned television production company based in Denver, Colorado. Partnering with Comcast Entertainment Television (CET), ISPN was launched in the fall of 2004. It specializes in local content, including over 120 annual productions of high school sporting events. From football to girls’ soccer, ISPN has showcased hundreds of schools and thousands of prep athletes in Colorado.

To further showcase those schools and athletes, ISPN has deployed the MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://www.ispn.tv/

Danville Voices Its Support for High School Football

Danville, Ill., is located in the East-Central portion of the state, near the Indiana state line. It’s within driving distance to some of the hottest destinations in the Midwest, including Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis. Danville is home to over 30,000 people, and is a highly desirable place to reside. It is also the home of radio stations WDAN-AM (1490) and K-Rock 94.9, which in turn are the home to local high school football with the MaxPreps.com widget:

http://vermilioncountyfirst.com/WDAN/2608934

http://vermilioncountyfirst.com/K-Rock/2608779

Charleston Post and Courier Preps for Season

Our good friends at the Charleston Post and Courier have redesigned their “Prep Zone” section for the 2009 fall season, and touched up their high school data feed service. For the latter, Zach Payer, Phil Bowman, et al have called upon the MaxPreps.com widget:

http://tinyurl.com/n8x3nq

Ohio Sites Continue to Roll With MaxPreps.com Widget

WOIO-TV, Channel 19 in Cleveland, is the latest media outlet in Ohio to pick up the MaxPreps data widget. The CBS affiliate is a World Now company:

http://www.woio.com/global/Category.asp?C=172666

Rush Is On In Prepping For Football Season

Television and radio stations were busy today preparing for the upcoming football season, which in many areas begins on Friday night.

First off, we have KOLR and KSFX in Springfield, Mo., showing off their new 60-school widget:

http://ozarksfirst.com/content/sports/sportsconnection

Then in Charlotte, N.C., WCNC News Channel 36 and WPEG-FM Power 98 are teaming up to both cover their area with the widget and promote their athlete of the week feature using MaxPreps.com data:

http://www.kiss951.com/Athlete-of-the-Week/2870324

http://www.power98fm.com/Power-98-s-High-School-Footbal-Player-of-the-Week/5007920

Computer Ace, Photographer Follows His Team Via Widget

Steve Sandel operates a computer repair business and photography studio in Alameda, Calif. He is also a big El Cerrito football fan and shows his team colors via the MaxPreps’ widget:

http://www.sandelcentral.com/football.html

Granite State a Rock of Stability with Widget

MaxPreps New Hampshire/Vermont columnist Roger Brown is also the editor and publisher of the New Hampshire Football Report, a web site that covers both high school and college football in the Granite State.

To deliver the latest scores, standings and statistical leaders from the state’s 55 high school football program, Mr. Brown relies on the MaxPreps.com Data Widget:

http://www.nhfootballreport.com/nh-standings.htm

SportsMaryland.com Sports Maxpreps Widget

Owner Kevin Lynch of SportsMaryland.com has a lot on his plate. In addition to providing a wide variety of prep video services throughout the state of Maryland, he hosts a weekly high school show on ESPN Radio 1300 in Baltimore.

Lynch can’t do everything himself – try as he may – so he allows the MaxPreps widget to aggregate data for the news section of his SportsMaryland web site. He has over 360 schools included in the package:

http://www.baltimoremetrosports.com/section/sports_news

Mississippi Governing Body Calls Upon MaxPreps Widget

The great folks at the Mississippi High School Activities Association recently had us into their offices on Raymond/Clinton Road in Clinton, Miss., and they could not have been more hospitable.

Executive Director Dr. Ennis Proctor; Development Director Phyfa Eiland, et al are strong believers in a state-wide program for populating statistical data on their teams. They have thus chosen the MaxPreps data widget to help meet their needs, drawing schedules, results, standings and leaderboards for over 250 schools.

http://www.misshsaa.com/

Deep In the Heart Of…Texas Coaches Adopt MaxPreps Widget

Big state, big widget.

Nothing is ever done minimally in Texas.

The Texas Association of basketball Coaches has rolled out data service for all of its nearly 1,600 member schools, backed by the work of webmaster Jennifer Thomas:

http://www.tabchoops.org/

With approximately 3,200 teams represented on this Maxpreps.com data widget, the TABC module can now boast more content for a single-sport widget than any in existence.