By Andrew Lippe
When the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather steamrolls its way into MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 5 it will be biggest fight the country has seen in years. The set up for the big fight will begin on May 2 when John Micale, HBO Boxing VP of [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
If you think NFL teams have spent a lot of time prepping for Saturday’s 2007 NFL draft it’s nothing compared with the hard work put in by ESPN and its staffers.
In recent months the network’s editing teams have been busy putting together video highlight packages of more than 250 draft hopefuls to ensure [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When the NAB officially closed the door on the 2007 convention last week it also ended one of the more interesting NAB shows in years. And it wasn’t because of a wealth of fascinating new technologies but rather because the industry finally seems to have stabilized. Cameras have made the transition to tapeless [...]

The Sports Video Group is sponsoring a pool party at the 13th Annual Collegiate Sports Video Association Convention at the San Diego Marriot Mission Valley Hotel on May 16 from 8-10 p.m. All SVG sponsors are invited to send two representatives to learn more about this vital and important market.
The CSVA is dedicated to advancing [...]

Fast
Forward Video Inc. (FFV), will collaborate with
Grass
Valley, to develop a cost-saving retrofit kit for Sony Betacam SX camcorders. The kit
is designed to replace the existing tape elements of the standard-definition
camcorder with the digital tapeless recording capabilities of the Grass Valley
REV PRO digital media drive. Additionally, the REV PRO-SX drive can record in HD
or [...]

Emmy Award-winning producer Michael Weisman has been named Executive in Charge of Production for “Football Night in America,” it was announced today by Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.
“Michael is one of the most talented sports producers of this era,” said Ebersol.

By Jonathan Blum and Seth Elkin
Sifting through the news from the NAB Show, there is one company that stands
out, at least from the geek's perspective. Apple. Steve Jobs' little venture
has firmly planted itself as a presence in the television business, both for
consumers and producers. The company now offers very professional-grade
post-production tools like Final Cut Pro
, [...]

Sony’s MVP trailer, a small remote production facility designed for smaller TV sports and other productions, topped the list as most interesting sports concept. A joint project between Sony and Venue Services Group, it brings three versions of low-cost remote production vehicles to the market. Matt Bjorge, Sony senior systems engineer/systems solutions manager, gave SVG [...]

In an SVG exclusive SES Americom’s Bill Squadron, SVP media partnerships and venture investments, says SVG members should stop by the SES booth and check out a new DVB-H based mobile TV service the company is demoing with Aloha Partners. The system is using local channels 54 and 59 to deliver 24 channels of full-motion [...]

…
Isilon says that NBC Olympics will store the majority of its 2008 Beijing proxy and broadband content on an Isilon IQ server. That will allow NBC producers to have instant online access to digital media assets in realtime in both Beijing and New York…
…
Shotoku Broadcast Systems showed a very neat two-unit, high-speed, pan and tilt [...]

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