Thanks to strong teamwork by Fox Sports, Armed Forces Entertainment, and volunteers and staffers at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, Fox Sports broadcast the Nov. 7 edition of its NFL Pre-Game Show from the base.
“For me, this was the most engaging and rewarding remote production I was ever part of,” says Michael Davies, VP [...]

The Kansas City Royals and Kauffman Stadium will reportedly play host to the 2012 MLB All-Star Game. Comcast SportsNet New England reported the news on its site this week, stating that an official announcement could come as early as next month’s league’s Winter Meetings. The Boston Red Sox, which hosted the event in 1999, had [...]

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Vista Satellite Communications has renewed its corporate sponsorship. Founded in 1988, VISTA Satellite Communications, Inc., “networks the world,” transmitting clients’ messages to and from anywhere on the globe.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Fast Forward Video has renewed its corporate sponsorship. Since 1985, Fast Forward Video has been at the forefront in digital video recording technology.
FFV was the first company to incorporate digital computer technology into professional video applications, the first to incorporate random access disk storage into a [...]

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Token Creek has renewed its mobile sponsorship. Token Creek Mobile Television, Inc. is one of the nation’s fastest-growing mobile HD and digital television production companies.

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The Mtn.—MountainWest Sports Network added six TCU women’s college basketball games to its 2009-10 broadcast schedule, in conjunction with the TCU Film/Television/Digital Media Department.
Students from the department will be responsible for all facets of the game production, with the regional sports network providing the broadcast platform.
The games are: Louisiana Monroe at TCU, Tuesday, Dec. 1, [...]

Manny Pacquiao’s 12th-round technical knockout of Miguel Cotto in their welterweight title bout Saturday night drew 1.25 million buys and earned $70 million in domestic pay-per-view revenue for Top Rank, Dan Rafael of ESPN.com reports.
Cable accounted for 650,000 of the PPV buys, while satellite-TV services contributed 600,000.
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ESPN/ABC announced that its top announcing team of Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will call both the Rose Bowl Jan. 1 and the Bowl Championship Series final game from the Rose Bowl Jan. 7, Michael Hiestand of USA Today reports.
On ESPN Radio, Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden, and Todd Blackledge will call the Rose Bowl and [...]

Are ESPN’s Herman Edwards and Mark Schlereth National Football League analysts, or psychologists, Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News wonders.
Edwards on New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan: “His team sensed he was sincere. If I’m a defensive player, I get it. I understand where that coach is coming from. All of a [...]

Detroit Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson will host Authentic Entertainment’s Stadium Secrets, in which he will bring viewers behind-the-scenes at various ballparks, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports.
Authentic also produces Food Network’s Ace of Cakes and Bravo’s Flipping Out.
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