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:

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:


Friday, September 11, 2009

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