CBS Sports Tees Up With NEP For PGA Coverage
January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer This weekend, CBS Sports will tee up its first PGA Tour event of the 2009 season, and, for the first time, NEP will be behind the scenes, since the company acquired NMT’s HD12 unit and its related golf contracts last September. “NEP has done everything they can to make this as seamless [...]
House Rejects DTV-Switch Delay
January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer and Carolyn Braff Although the turnoff of analog TV signals next month appeared headed for a delay to June 12 after the Senate on Tuesday approved a compromise bill (S.328) that would give the government four more months to smooth the transition, Wednesday sent the measure back to square one. The House [...]
Senate Calls for DTV Delay; House to Vote Today
January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer The turnoff of analog TV signals next month appears headed for a delay to June 12. The Senate approved a compromise bill (S.328) that will give the government four more months to help consumers understand how the DTV transition will impact them and also get additional DTV-converter-box coupons into the marketplace. It [...]
Versus Set To Switch on New Denver Master Control
January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By John Rice This weekend, the NHL All Star Game will take center stage at Versus, and the network is also using the busy weekend as a way to kick the tires on a new master-control facility in Denver. “We didn’t use any existing equipment,” says Director of Engineering Paul Koopmann. “We wanted to completely [...]
SportsTechLA Opens SVG’s West Coast Horizons
January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Carolyn Braff On Tuesday Jan. 20, SVG celebrated the historic Presidential inauguration by inaugurating an event of its own, the first Sports Video Group meeting ever held on the West Coast. Hosted by UCLA, SVG’s SportsTechLA seminar drew a capacity crowd of 130 sports-business professionals for a half-day seminar, focusing on the top sports-tech [...]
ESPN Plugs Into a Mountain for X Games Coverage
January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Carolyn Braff For all the equipment that ESPN’s 2009 Winter X Games production crew has had to transport to Aspen/Snowmass, CO, the network might as well be broadcasting from the side of a mountain — Buttermilk Mountain, to be exact. More than a dozen mobile production trucks, 50 cameras, and 75,000 feet of fiber [...]
DTV Transition Due for Delay?
January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer With one month to go until analog television is supposed to turn out the lights, it appears that concerns about disenfranchising upwards of 7% of TV viewers is causing some concern in Washington. The most recent signs are a bill introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to delay the DTV transition to [...]
Holiday Cheer Comes to St. Bonaventure, Courtesy Game Creek Video
January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Carolyn Braff The holiday season came a bit late to St. Bonaventure University, but Paul Weiland, a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, could not be more thrilled. Last Friday, Game Creek Video’s Red truck, formerly owned by Unitel Video, arrived on St. Bonaventure’s Western New York campus, proverbially gift-wrapped as [...]
BCS Production Brings 3D to College Sports
January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer College football’s biggest game, the BCS National Championship Game, enters the third dimension on Dec. 8. The game between Florida and Oklahoma will be produced in 3D and delivered to more than 80 movie theaters across the country and a Sony presentation at CES in Las Vegas. For 3ality Digital, which produced [...]
Fox Sports Stays Focused on 2D for BCS
January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game in Miami will make headlines as the first college championship to be delivered in 3D across the nation. For the team at Fox Sports, though, the focus will still be on the 2D side of things as it ensures that traditional TV viewers have a top-notch viewing [...]
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