Turner Sports Brings Technical Expertise to NBA TV
October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer The NBA and Turner Sports officially launched their tighter relationship this week when NBA TV began its season, broadcasting out of Turner facilities in Atlanta. The move required new HD buildouts in Atlanta, as well as new workflows because NBA digital-media management and archive facilities remain in Secaucus, NJ. “This is a [...]
Turner Sports Brings Technical Expertise to NBA TV
October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The NBA and Turner Sports officially launched their tighter relationship this week when NBA TV began its season, broadcasting out of Turner facilities in Atlanta. The move required new HD buildouts in Atlanta, as well as new workflows because NBA digital-media management and archive facilities remain in Secaucus, NJ. “This is a tremendous facility,” says [...]
Sports Broadcasting HOF, Sports Museum of America Join Forces
October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame is the newest sports-related Hall of Fame to join forces with the Sports Museum of America (SmA). The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame honors sports TV industry leaders both in front of and behind the camera, and together the two organizations will increase consumer awareness of the sports-broadcast industry.
MLB International Sends the World Series to the World
October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Carolyn Braff Five weeks out of every year, an international team of broadcasting talent reunites to bring baseball to more than 200 countries around the world. For the past 10 years, Russell Gabay, VP and executive producer of MLB International, has worked with the same veteran group to produce an independent international feed of [...]
MLB International Sends the World Series to the World
October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Five weeks out of every year, an international team of broadcasting talent reunites to bring baseball to more than 200 countries around the world. For the past 10 years, Russell Gabay, VP and executive producer of MLB International, has worked with the same veteran group to produce an independent international feed of the All-Star Game, [...]
SVG, Sports Leagues, NCAA File White Space Comments
October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Technology Alliance — composed of the Sports Video Group, MLB, NASCAR, the NBA, the NCAA, the NFL, the NHL, and the PGA Tour — today filed comments with the FCC urging the FCC not to proceed with the White Space order announced.
SVG, Sports Leagues, NCAA File White Space Comments
October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Technology Alliance — composed of the Sports Video Group, MLB, NASCAR, the NBA, the NCAA, the NFL, the NHL, and the PGA Tour — today filed comments with the FCC urging the FCC not to proceed with the White Space order announced.
Churchill Downs Begins HD Horse-Racing Conversion
October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer
Churchill Downs Begins HD Horse-Racing Conversion
October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This weekend, Churchill Downs becomes the first racetrack to go HD when it hosts the 2008 fall meet, which runs through the end of November. The move will give horse-racing simulcast and off-track–betting locations a reason to go HD and will also launch a conversion to HD within the track itself. “We will have separate [...]
Collegiate Images Taps XOS To Build Digital Archive
October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer Collegiate Images, a video-rights clearinghouse for colleges, conferences, bowl games, and more, has inked a deal with XOS Technologies that will move Collegiate Images (CI) out of the tape-based realm and into file-based workflows for content ingest and delivery. The move will make CI content more quickly available to producers of commercials, [...]















