NHL Drops Puck In London This Weekend
September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Inside Look: F&F Production GTX15 HD truck
September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
TBS takes traditional approach to MLB playoffs
September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
By Andrew Lippe
Front Porch Digital off to the races with Woodbine Entertainment
September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Texas A&M and the Big 12’s process of Digital Video Exchange
September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Kangaroo.TV continues to push NFL Mobile Video
September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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.
Ascent Media builds play-out facility in London
September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
RBDG Upgrades and Expands NFL Network’s Culver City Facility
September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Sports Technology Alliance print ads push white space concerns
September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen launches CollegeFanz.com
September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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