By Ken Kerschbaumer
When DirecTV expanded its HD channel capacity last September it did more than just open up enough bandwidth for regional HD sports networks to go national: it also laid the groundwork for DirecTV’s NASCAR HotPass to make the leap to HD for the upcoming season. “Last year we just wanted to prove we [...]

By Andrew Lippe
The WWE Sunday Night traveled to Madison Square Garden for the 21st annual “Royal Rumble,” a PPV extravaganza that marked the culmination of a weeklong transition to HD. And NEP Supershooters, in its continued support of WWE events, rolled its latest HD trailer into MSG for the big event.
“Going HD has been [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Game Creek’s Northstar HD truck has been on the road since Dec. 15 working primarily on Buffalo Sabres NHL telecasts but next week it gets some respite from the cold when it heads down to Phoenix for Super Bowl XLII. The truck will be on hand to help ESPN with its Super Bowl [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
The New England Patriots and New York Giants aren’t the only ones proud of their NFL accomplishments this weekend. Fox Sports and CBS Sports both offered two of the best recent examples of how technical crew and staff worked together through nasty weather conditions to put on top-quality productions.
“CBS Sports, Fox Sports [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Setting up for any sporting event can be stressful enough but on Sunday morning staffers at Fox Sports and Game Creek Video, which is supplying five production trucks for the NFC Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants will have another challenge: gearing up in dangerously cold conditions. With [...]

The NBA, in a move to more efficiently meet expanding digital
opportunities and also open up resources to more effectively address
the international market will turn over day-to-day
operations of NBA TV, NBA.com, and NBA League Pass to Atlanta-based
Turner Broadcasting System while NBA Entertainment operations remain in
Secaucus. NJ. The contract begins for the 2008-2009 season and will run
through [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When people talk about impressive runs in football during the past month it is the New York Giants that spring to mind on the field. But off the field it’s been Fox Sports, which is in the midst of a hectic schedule that began with 8 NFL telecasts during the final week of [...]

NEP Broadcasting has acquired the stock of New Century Productions of Allentown, PA, but NCP will continue to operate under the NCP brand with its current staff providing service and support for clients.
“We believe that NCP is a great company and there is no good reason to dismantle it or change it in any way,” [...]

Electrical engineering and broadcast TV students from LSU and Delgado Community College in New Orleans were given a behind-the-scenes tour by Fox Sports, Bexel, Game Creek, and the Sports Video Group of a top-level TV sports production on the Saturday prior to the 2008 BCS National Championship game between LSU and Ohio State. “The BCS [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When Norwegian-based Squarehead Technology introduced a new concept in sports audio at the IBC in Amsterdam last September it opened the door on a new way for audio mixers to zero in on players, fans, and coaches from afar similarly to a camera lens. And now that Bexel has landed an exclusive deal [...]

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