By Andrew Lippe
The National Hockey League will drop the puck on the 2007/2008 season across the pond with two games set for London’s O2 Arena. The NHL regular season takes off this weekend in London. And it will do more than kickoff the NHL season.
“This is the arena’s very first sporting event,” says Adam Acone, [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
F&F Productions newest truck, GTX15, is beginning its second month of duty after its debut during the U.S. Open tennis championships for CBS Sports. It’s current gig? Handing CBS Sports NFL and college football telecasts.
Connie Vizaro, F&F VP, production and sales, says the new truck is a double expando all the way down [...]

By Andrew Lippe

Front Porch Digital has inked a deal with Woodbine Entertainment, Canada’s top racetrack, for the deployment of Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive to manage tens of thousands of hours of content and to facilitate fast browsing and retrieval of specified clips.
Woodbine Entertainment’s DIVArchive is interfaced with four M-Series iVDRs, three of them located at the [...]

By Andrew
Lippe
College
programs in the Big 12 have gone full speed ahead with Digital Video
Exchange, using a peer-to-peer FTP model for transferring game footage. The Big 12
Conference has been onboard with the process since August, 2005. SVG spoke with
Christopher Luke, Assistant Video Coordinator at Texas A&M Athletics to see
how this came to
fruition.
Luke
explained that the installation [...]

By Andrew
Lippe and Carl Lindemann
It used
to be that the goal in the sports broadcast business was to try to replicate
the in-stadium experience for the home viewing audience.

By Kevin
Hilton
Ascent
Media is to build a new facility at its central
London offices to handle the acquisition,
transcoding, archiving and delivery of material, as well as providing
commenatry and presentation areas for sports programs.
The Media Centre, which is scheduled to open during the fourth quarter of this
year, will also be based at Ascent's
Stephen
Street facility [...]

By Carl
Lindemann
The NFL Network is ready to tackle the upcoming season with the completion of a
major expansion to its
Culver City,
CA broadcast facility. The new
soundstage and production space, designed by Russ Burger Design Group (RBDG),
is to handle an added slate of original programming. Productions broadcast from
the facility include NFL Total Access, NFL Game Day, NFL [...]

The Sports Technology Alliance formed by SVG, its members (a contingent of the leading sports leagues) and in association with MSTV, launched an advertising campaign on Tuesday in the face of the ongoing FCC proceedings that will consider rules for permitting unlicensed portable devices to operate on the TV spectrum. The print ad which will [...]

By Andrew Lippe
It sounds like a dream come true for collegiate fans: host your own
sports talk radio show, interact with fans of your favorite team from
around the country, but these are no longer fantasies thanks to the
Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen, who today launched CollegeFanz.com.
The website is an interactive online experience dedicated to
collegiate sports. “Today [...]

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