By Ken Kerschbaumer
National Mobile Television has laid off 47 staffers, with none receiving severance pay, and closed offices in New Jersey and Florida, and appears to be setting the stage to close its doors after more than 40 years in operation. The Torrance, CA-based remote-production company’s secured lender, Wachovia Capital Finance, has also issued a [...]

By John Rice
With every dollar spent building sports-production facilities — whether a truck, a venue, or network operations center — more important than ever, attendees at NAB will be hunting for cheaper and more cost-effective instant-replay options. This might be the year those attendees get what they’ve been looking for.
“There are tremendous pressures on production [...]

By John Rice
The video-server market for sports production continues to evolve, offering increased storage, smaller units, new codecs and features, lower prices, and opportunities for new users to upgrade from tape to file-based workflows.
New codecs, and the promise of future codecs, demonstrate suppliers’ commitment to new HD formats. Stereoscopic/3D is on the radar and inside [...]

By Dan Daley
MLB Network’s new production and post facility in Secaucus, NJ, will be the nerve center for broadcasting baseball, with the network handling at least 26 games this season in 720p HD. The studios in the 140,000-sq.-ft. space will also handle original programming produced in-house by MLB Network and MLB Productions.
MLB’s new digs are [...]

By John Rice
The words still store may conjure up a sedate product category that creates a serene sense of being, but the reality is that still stores, increasingly, aren’t so still. And they often perform more graphics-related functions.
“When people refer to a still store, they mean something that will do still and motion,” explains Pete [...]

By Debra Kaufman
Faster processing speed and expanded format compatibilities will be the dual themes of video editing at NAB 2009. The show will also be marked by the return of Avid Technology after a one-year absence. But two other major editing players, Apple and Quantel, are taking a pass (Apple also missed the show last [...]

By Carolyn Braff
For the fourth consecutive year, the New England Sports Network (NESN) will broadcast all Boston Red Sox games in high definition, but the big news in Beantown this season is a new mobile provider supporting all of those HD productions. A longstanding relationship with mobile truck provider NMT ends this season as NESN’s [...]

By Carolyn Braff
Producing upwards of 60 high-definition basketball games in 2½ weeks is undoubtedly a daunting production challenge. Throw in the fact that those games are being played at a dozen venues from Boston to Boise, and CBS Sports’ coverage of the NCAA Championship becomes one of the most technically challenging sports events on the [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Producing the international feed for the World Series is always a big challenge for MLB International, but this year, it should be a lot easier. For the first time ever, MLB International is producing World Baseball Classic, with five international feeds for each of 39 games being played during the three-week tournament. And [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Pro-Bel and Snell & Wilcox have merged their businesses, a move
that puts the combined entity at the forefront of backroom operations
of TV facilities where routing, conversion, and other signal processing
gear dominate. Both companies will exhibit at the same booth at NAB and
a new name for combined entity will also be unveiled at the [...]

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