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

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:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/content/sports/

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:

http://www.mgvca.org/index.html

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

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

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

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:

http://www.csssports.com/pages/highschool

WGXA-TV Reaches out in Central Georgia With MaxPreps.com Widget

WGXA-TV, Fox 24 in Macon, Ga., airs Middle Georgia's only Primetime newscast, FOX 24 News at 10 p.m. They also offer the only show in Middle Georgia that gives viewers a voice in local news, politics and more with The FOX Files.

To top it off, WGXA covers 50 high school football teams in the region using the MaxPreps' data widget:

http://www.fox24.com/sports/blitz

CBS, Fox Properties Introduce MaxPreps Widgets

The 2009 high school football season in the Northeast finally got started recently. A couple of prominent electronic media outlets in the region, KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh (CBS) and WPRI-TV Channel 12 in Providence (Fox) marked the opening and confirmed their commitment to high school sports by introducing the MaxPreps.com widget to help with their coverage:

http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/5117239.php?

http://www.wpri.com/generic/sports/upcoming_hs_football_games

Erie On the Go in PA with MaxPreps.com Widget

When it comes to daily coverage of PIAA District 10 in far western Pennsylvania, no one does it better than the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com. Web content manager Dan Miller shows off his GoErie Varsity section here:
 
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=VARSITYCOVER

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