The acquisition of SportVu last year by STATS LLC continues to pay dividends and expand the company’s presence with broadcasters and sports leagues. Turkish broadcaster DigiTurk will use the system for soccer, tracking players and the ball. “They will use it in a lot of different ways,” says Brian Kopp, VP of strategy and development [...]
ESPN’s coverage of X Games 15 are getting a technical lift this weekend, thanks to the network’s new Los Angeles Production Center. “In years past, we would route the signals through a truck at the Home Depot Center,” says ESPN Senior Operations Producer Larry Wilson. “But with the infrastructure at the LAPC, we can simplify [...]
Salvation Army Gears Up With Panasonic P2 Gear
July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Salvation Army USA Eastern Territory equipped its new Gregg Media Center with three Panasonic AG-HPX500 P2 HD camcorders in studio configuration, an AJ-HPM110 P2 Mobile recorder/player and AV-HS400A multi-format HD/SD switcher. More recently, the Eastern Territory Media Bureau purchased two AG-HPX300 P2 HD camcorders to handle its varied field production needs. The Salvation Army [...]
AmberFin Releases Version 4.6 of iCR Ingest, Transcode, and Quality Control Software
July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
AmberFin has released Version 4.6 for its iCR ingest, Transcode and automatic QC software. New features include compression pre processing, motion compensated frame rate conversion, live in and out capture for scheduling live recordings, transcoding during ingest, and two-pass VC-1, WM9, and h.264 to optimize image quality. “AmberFin iCR software continues to grow in breadth [...]
WWE’s Monday Night Raw Gets an Entourage
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Jeremy Piven will be the celebrity guest host on USA Network’s presentation of WWE’s Monday Night Raw live from the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut Aug. 3 at 9 p.m., Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports. Piven, best-known as agent Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage, will “manage” all of the WWE Superstars and Divas. For the [...]
No FCC Extension for MASN-Comcast Complaint
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
An administrative law judge for the Federal Communications Commission did not extend the deadline for the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to file its recommendation in the program-carriage complaint by Mid-Atlantic Sports Network against Comcast, Broadcasting & Cable’s John Eggerton reported. MASN told the commission the two sides were nearing a negotiated settlement Aug. 4, and the [...]
Is Push Technology Motorola’s Secret Weapon?
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Forbes.com reports that despite escalating competition, Motorola appears confident that its upcoming smart phones–based on Google’s Android operating system–are winners. Two analysts think they know the reason behind the company’s boldness: Motorola, they say, has figured out a way to push updates from social networking Web sites directly to a user’s phone.
Extra Innings Bring Extra Eyeballs
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The St. Louis Cardinals’ 3-2, 15-inning win Wednesday night over the guest Los Angeles Dodgers set a season ratings high for Fox Sports Midwest, pulling in a 13.4 household rating and 26 share in the St. Louis DMA. The game earned a 12.9 during primetime from 7 p.m.-11 p.m., more than doubling the ratings of [...]
Sky To Launch 3D Network in 2010
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Sky will launch the UK’s first 3D television channel next year. No date has been set for the start of the service nor have any details of programming been announced but Sky wants the channel to be on air by the end of 2010, with sport, entertainment and movies forming the basis of the first [...]
Will Lusk’s Death, White’s Absence Affect X Games?
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The 15th X Games begin Thursday night on ESPN, but without the late Jeremy Lusk, the moto X freestyle rider who was killed in a crash while competing in Costa Rica in February, and without skateboarder Shaun White, who opted to skip this year’s event and focus on the Winter Olympic Games, during which he [...]
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