By Ken Kerschbaumer
This weekend NBCSports.com will debut a new technology from developer Jacked, Inc. that will give sports fans a richer, deeper, and more personalized interactive TV experience. Launched to coincide with NBC Sports’ first Notre Dame game the Jacked TVTOP publishing platform looks to revolutionize the sports fan interactive TV experience by providing a [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
It sounds like the ultimate NFL roadtrip: visiting 28 stadiums in 22 days. Unfortunately the goal wasn’t to catch every NFL team in action: instead it was to help transition the NFL to HD instant replay. That said, Scott Nardelli, Bexel director of fiber optic solutions, isn’t complaining. The stadiums may have been [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
It's a very new media U.S. Open that kicks off this weekend as, in a
new twist this year, fans in the stands will be able to watch video on
other courts on handheld devices from WiseDV. And with CBS Sports
backing off its late-night U.S. Open wrap-up show the
USTA has stepped in with two of [...]

Norby
Williamson, ESPN executive vice president, production has re-organized the
company’s production department to expand the responsibilities of several
employees, to create new units to enhance creativity and collaboration across
platforms, and to further emphasize ESPN’s commitment to journalism. “We
consistently look at ways to innovate and evolve in response to our growing
portfolio of programming,” Williamson said. “ESPN has an [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When the PGA Championship took place two weeks ago at Southern Hills Country Club in Oklahoma the high temperatures and undying sun was a constant source of consternation for everyone. But CBS Sports, BSI and Tech Imaging Services managed to find a bright spot, literally, as the ample sunshine allowed a new portable [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
More than 100 sports industry video professionals came together in Secaucus, NJ for the first ever SVG Sports Asset Management conference. The topic of the day was the challenge both leagues and broadcast partners face in building cost-effective archive systems that provide the flexibility to change with future needs while providing the means [...]

By Dan Cowan
High-school sports coverage has been a mainstay of the newspaper world, making local students into heroes and bringing the community together. But now the pages of “Saturday Night Heroes” is moving into the new age in a big new way: the Internet. And the experience of ShoreConferenceSports.com, an extension of a new national [...]

The Beatles struck recording gold with the song “Eight Days a Week” but NBC Universal is taking things to a whole new level with 212 hours a day of Beijing Olympic coverage next summer. It will present more than 3,600 hours of coverage of the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the most ambitious single media project in
history [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
The battle over whether or not to allow unlicensed portable consumer electronic devices into broadcast spectrum currently used by sports leagues, teams and broadcasters heated up last week when the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology reported in its initial evaluation of prototype devices that they performed miserably compared to the promises of [...]

By Kevin Hilton
As the new football season approaches in England BBC Sport continues its move to a tapeless production chain, which will be used for building the highlights packages screened on the flagship Saturday night Match of Day programme.
The Post Production division of BBC Resources has further developed the system used for the BBC's coverage [...]

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