ARRI Rolls Out ARRILASER 2 Film Recorder
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ARRI announced the release of its next-generation ARRILASER 2 film recorder, which supports a 16-bit image path, as well as recording speeds double those of the company’s previous models: 0.9 seconds per frame in 2K and 1.5 sec./frame in 4K. The ARRILASER 2 uses a Linux-based software package, and its new client-server architecture allows all [...]
FMC Sets Fifth Annual NY Post|Production Conference
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Future Media Concepts will hold its Fifth Annual NY Post|Production Conference, produced in association with the National Association of Broadcasters, at the Doubletree Guest Suites Times Square in New York Oct. 5-8. The four-day training event will offer attendees very latest in technology application and work-flow techniques using Adobe, Apple, and Avid professional content-creation tools. [...]
NBC Sports’s Roy Recalls Soggy U.S. Open Championship
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
By Ken Kerschbaumer It’s been one week since the 2009 U.S. Open Golf Championship came to a soggy, memorable end at Bethpage Black in Long Island, NY. NBC Sports golf producer Tommy Roy says the successful telecast, and the ability to fill hours of rain delay with interesting programming, was a testament to the hard [...]
Venue News & Notes: Living Large In London
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
London already has the 2012 Olympics locked up, and the mayor is now looking to help England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup, as well. The main stadium for the Olympic Games was originally planned to be scaled back at the conclusion of the Olympiad, but mayor Boris Johnson now says he would like [...]
Padres Follow Yankees Down Streaming Path
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The San Diego Padres will join the New York Yankees on Major League Baseball’s roster of teams allowing in-market fans to watch live streamed games, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reported. Much like the deal between the Yankees and Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications high-speed-Internet customers in the team’s television market will be able to watch [...]
Slumping Mets Costing SNY Viewers
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The worse the play of the New York Mets becomes during their injury-ravaged slump, the worse the team’s ratings on regional sports network SportsNet New York become, writes Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News. According to Raissman, hard-core fans will still watch SNY, but the RSN is in jeopardy of losing fringe viewers [...]
Michael Jackson Changed Super Bowl Halftime Shows
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Richard Sandomir of The New York Times examined the late Michael Jackson’s impact on the Super Bowl, saying that when the King of Pop was the halftime performer for Super Bowl XXVII between the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, the ratings for NBC’s halftime show were higher than [...]
SVG Unveils New Website
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce the unveiling of the new www.sportsvideo.org. Featuring a fresh redesign, easier-to-navigate home page, and a host of new features, SVG’s new Website is now better equipped than ever to advance the creation, production, and distribution of sports content. Among the features you will find at the new [...]
Murray’s Victory Boosts BBC’s Wimbledon Ratings
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Boosted by a victory by countryman Andy Murray, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported 11.8 million viewers and a 54% audience share for its coverage of the Wimbledon Championships Monday night, Variety’s Leo Barraclough reported. The match was able to continue until 10:45 p.m. local time thanks to the new retractable roof and floodlights at Centre [...]
Two Nimbra Orders for Net Insight
June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Net Insight announced two orders Tuesday: One for its Nimbra optical-transport platform to a contribution network so it can carry video feeds from venues in a European football league, and the second with an Asian media operator, also for Nimbra, which will use the equipment for TV distribution. The European network will use Nimbra to [...]
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