For the 2009 football season, Kitay Productions has increased its stable of clients, bringing high-quality productions to mid-major football scoreboards up and down the East Coast. In addition to Saturday-afternoon productions at Towson University’s football stadium, Kitay Productions will now be producing scoreboard shows for the U.S. Military Academy (Army) and Columbia University. Also new [...]
CBS Sports Doubles Its Pleasure with Ratings for The Barclays
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
CBS Sports said its ratings for the final round of The Barclays Sunday more than doubled last year’s totals, as the network posted an overnight household rating/share of 3.7/8, up 106% from 1.8/4 in the metered markets in 2008, and up 76% from a 2.1/5 in 2007. The network’s coverage of the final round of [...]
CSN Chicago Plans Hall-of-Fame Tribute to Jordan
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Ex-Chicago Bulls and National Basketball Association great Michael Jordan will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Friday, Sept. 11, and Comcast SportsNet Chicago will present a two-day celebration of the event. The regional sports network said “23 Hours of MJ: A Hall of Fame Celebration” will tip off Thursday, Sept. 10 [...]
GefenTV Wireless for HDMI 60Ghz Extender Debuts
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Gefen will demonstrate its new GefenTV Wireless for HDMI 60Ghz Extender at IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15. The company says its new extender offers uncompressed delivery of both HD video and multichannel digital audio in the HDMI format, and installers can mount a flat-panel HDTV anywhere and send HDMI signals from [...]
Comcast SportsNet Spreads Its Eagles Wings
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Comcast SportsNet is ready for some Philadelphia Eagles football, adding Halftime Live, Eagles Extra, and Eagles Locker Room to its existing shows covering the National Football League team: Eagles Pregame Live Presented by Geico, Eagles Postgame Live Presented by Chevrolet, Inside the Eagles, and Daily News Live Presented by AT&T. Halftime Live, a CSNPhilly.com exclusive, [...]
Comcast SportsNet California Goes Behind-the-Scenes at Oakland Coliseum
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Comcast SportsNet California will take Oakland A’s fans behind-the-scenes for a look at what goes on at Oakland Coliseum before, during and after the Major League Baseball club’s games with special coverage during the team’s home game versus the Kansas City Royals Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. PT. As part of the A’s All [...]
Munsif Taps Grass Valley Gear for News Network
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Hyderabad, India-based newspaper and print-media company Munsif is breaking into the television business, with a little help from Grass Valley. The company is planning a November launch of 24-hour national news channel Munsif TV, and the network’s new facility will include five Grass Valley standard-definition LDK 400 cameras, a Kayak DD2 production switcher, a Concerto [...]
CBSSports.com, Sports Illustrated Team Up
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
CBSSports.com and Sports Illustrated announced a partnership under which the two parties will share each other’s content across their online properties and in the print edition of SI, David Kaplan of paidContent reported. As part of the agreement, CBS Interactive’s high-school-sports site, MaxPreps, will displace high-school and college sports network Takkle on the front of [...]
CBS: Super Bowl Ad Sales Coming Along
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
CBS has sold approximately 40 30-second spots for Super Bowl XLIV, or 65% of available commercial spots for the Big Game, reports Steve McClellan of Adweek. So far, prices for the Feb. 7 National Football League championship game from Miami are in the range of $2.7 million-$2.8 million apiece, flat to slightly lower than what [...]
NFL: 12 Teams May Have Games Blacked Out
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
At the National Football League owners’ meeting in Chicago Aug. 19, the league told its owners 10-12 of its teams may not sell out every game locally, meaning that their games could be blacked out on local television, reports Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal. During the 2008 NFL season, only the Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions, [...]
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