For a sport utterly obsessed with numbers, baseball’s statistical approach to the defensive side of the game has always left something to be desired. ESPN VP of Emerging Technology Anthony Bailey and his team at the ESPN Innovation Lab in Orlando are looking to change that. Using the newly developed Diamond Track system, ESPN can [...]

San Jose, CA, Mayor Chuck Reed is withdrawing an effort to have residents vote in November on a ballot measure authorizing a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics. Reed said this week he decided to shelve the proposal after speaking with baseball and other elected officials. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig had expressed disappointment that [...]

The 2010 Summer X Games on ESPN will feature some new events, including a tricks-video skateboard competition and an indoor moto-car race. But there’s plenty new on the audio side as well.
For starters, this year’s X Games — already the most complex audio show that ESPN produces regularly and the largest audio infrastructure it builds [...]

The first Test between England and Pakistan began July 29 at Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire, with newly refurbished outside-broadcast trucks providing both the television host and UK highlights coverage.
CTV OBs, facilities provider for Sky Sports, has upgraded its OB4 to HD and 5.1 surround sound on the main live feed, and terrestrial broadcaster Five’s edited coverage [...]

ESPN 3D debuted with high-profile telecasts of the FIFA World Cup and MLB Home Run Derby, but this week’s X Games 16 promises to be the greatest production challenge yet for ESPN’s young 3D network.
Less than three weeks removed from its first-ever in-house 3D production at the Home Run Derby (the World Cup 3D feed [...]

Buck McNeely has been shooting on FUJIFILM Optical Devices U.S.A. (formerly known as Fujinon) lenses for the past 20 years. McNeely is the creator, producer and host of the syndicated hunting and outdoor adventure television series, The Outdoorsman with Buck McNeely.
Over the last few years, McNeely has organized and shot elk hunts in Colorado, bird [...]

ANTENA 3, a major commercial communications group in Spain, has upgraded its streaming media platform with the purchase of Niagara Pro II systems. The Niagara Pro offers powerful processors and large memory capacity with two independent channels to capture SDI video and encode multiple full-resolution (D1) streams.
“ViewCast has been a reliable provider of superior-quality video [...]

For the first time, ESPN 3D will telecast outside the United States. ESPN 3D, in conjunction with FOXTEL and AUSTAR in Australia, will provide fans with eight hours of coverage from X Games 16 in Los Angeles. Australian viewers can tune in for 3D action on Friday, July 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. [...]

Australian sports broadcaster Premier Media Group (PMG) has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ system.
Fox Sports News has been produced using Quantel server-based production technology for a number of years. “While our existing Quantel system has served us well over the years, production imperatives have changed and we now need to be able to handle a [...]

Broadcast Sports Inc. (BSI) will serve as the primary RF provider at ESPN’s Summer X Games for the sixth consecutive year and will supply key transmission technologies to this year’s Los Angeles events, which run July 29 through August 1.
LA poses some particularly challenging spectrum availability issues. BSI brings exclusive on-board and wireless microphone solutions, [...]

NetApp has announced it will support the Intel Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters. This extends NetApp’s ecosystem of Ethernet solutions and offers customers more ways to deploy an end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) infrastructure. By offering customers options to make the transition from a Fibre Channel infrastructure to a high-performance [...]

Wohler Technologies has announced the opening of a new Wohler service center serving customers in the EMEA territory. Based in France, the Wohler EMEA Service Center will act as the first line of second- and third-tier support for Wohler customers, enabling faster turnaround times and simplifying administrative paperwork and shipping procedures. First-tier support and administrative [...]

NewTek and InterSense have announced LightWave 10 with VCam, the industry’s first off-the-shelf 3D virtual production system. By integrating NewTek’s LightWave 3D software with the InterSense virtual camera technology, creators of 3D content are able to model, animate, render, scout and set shots using a single solution.
Being demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2010, in NewTek’s booth H#337, [...]

Miranda Technologies will be highlighting multiple 3DTV products at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam, along with its award-winning loudness control systems.
The Stereoscopic 3D product range includes signal processors, multi-viewers, and channel branding systems. The Densite 3DX-3901 Stereoscopic 3D signal processor provides high quality conversion of multiple 3D formats, including Dual 1.5Gbps, Dual 3Gbps, Single 3Gbps, and [...]

Calrec Audio has launched a community website, community.calrec.com, a forum for sharing education and information with customers and anyone else in the audio world. Included on the site are video- and image-sharing blogs from the Calrec team and other industry experts, Twitter feeds, links to social media, and RSS feeds. Visitors are encouraged to provide [...]