Microphone and wireless-systems manufacturer Shure has been in the forefront of the White Spaces issue since the beginning, and Shure Manager of Technical and Educational Communications Chris Lyons brought SVG up to speed on its current status. The first TV Bands Device (a fixed device designed to provide local wireless broadband) and the first TV [...]

The SVG Sports Entertainment Production Summit’s first panel session took a look at sports entertainment from both the producer and technical perspectives, and the consensus among all is that the role of pregame, halftime, and postgame content, as well as feature stories and reality programming, will only become more important in an age hungry for [...]

Capping a day of panel discussions that continually emphasized the merits of storytelling, character development, and being in the right place at the right time, MLB Productions’ Executive Producer David Check demonstrated how his team successfully combined all three elements to create The Franchise. SVG’s Sports Entertainment Production Summit this week closed with a case [...]

The setting was unlike anything ever seen in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. In fact, it was the first event of its kind on U.S. soil. And when the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships needed the infrastructure to make it happen, they turned to North Carolina-based power supplier Filmwerks. Starting from above Selby and Summit Avenues [...]

The good news in postproduction is that there are more ways than ever to get source material that makes for easier storytelling, whether it’s cellphone video, Flip cameras, or higher-end Sony HDCAM SR and Panasonic DVCPRO material. The bad news is finding ways to efficiently handle all the new ways content is acquired. This was [...]