UEFA Europa League? U.K.’s Five Has Got an App for That
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
UEFA Europa League? The United Kingdom’s Five has got an app for that. Soccer fans will be able to watch all of Five’s live coverage of the league, as well as highlights packages, on their iPhones for a one-time fee of $6.40, Variety’s Steve Clarke reports. This marks the first time live soccer will be [...]
World Fishing Network Fishing for Comcast Carriage
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
WFN: World Fishing Network now has a fishing license from Comcast, and the 24-hour fishing-lifestyle channel can attempt to bait individual systems, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News. The cable network launched in December 2005 and is currently available in more than 20 million households. For the complete story, click here.
NHL Center Ice Preview Extended Through Oct. 24
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In Demand Networks extended the free preview of its NHL Center Ice National Hockey League out-of-market games package through Oct. 24, with the first pucks of the NHL season set to drop Oct. 1, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reported. Cable operators offering NHL Center Ice are Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Bright House [...]
ESPN’s MNF Continues to Set the Bar
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ESPN continued to break its own benchmark for largest cable-television audience of the year with Monday Night Football, as week three of the National Football League franchise set the mark for the third consecutive week. The Dallas Cowboys’ first victory at the new Cowboys Stadium, 21-7 at the expense of the Carolina Panthers, posted an [...]
Golf Channel Installs Another SSL C100 HD-S Console
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Golf Channel upgraded its Control Room Two with a 32-fader Solid State Logic C100 HD-S broadcast console, which joined the existing C100 HD in the cable network’s Control Room One. Golf Channel also installed an SSL MORSE router to interconnect both control rooms and to deliver embedding and de-embedding options to both consoles. The network’s [...]
NESN Set for HD Doubleheader
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
NESN is set for an HD doubleheader Oct. 3, as the regional sports network will provide simultaneous HD coverage of Major League Baseball and National Hockey League regular-season games with the Cleveland Indians visiting the Boston Red Sox and the Carolina Hurricanes visiting the Boston Bruins, respectively. Both games are set for 7 p.m. ET. [...]
Avid Now Shipping New Editing Products
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Avid announced that the new editing products it announced at IBC2009—Media Composer (4.0), Symphony (4.0), and NewsCutter (8.0)—are now shipping. New features in Media Composer, Symphony, and NewsCutter include: improved Stereoscopic 3D editing; monitoring HD and standard-definition cross- and down-converted formats from 1080p24 masters; enabling use of Mojo DX or Nitris DX hardware to view [...]
NBA Digital Offers Inside, HD Look at NBA Training Camps
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Unlike MLB’s spring training or the NFL’s summer camps, the NBA’s preseason practice sessions are not usually open to the public. Thanks to NBA Digital, however, fans this season are getting an inside look at five teams’ practices, including interviews with top players and coaches, produced in high definition and available live on NBA.com. For [...]
Fox Sports to Air Vizio’s Profiles
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
TV-set-maker Vizio wasn’t content with producing HDTV sets, so it decided to venture into programming, as well. The company teamed up on a new show for Fox Sports, Vizio’s Profiles, which will debut Oct. 2, Erik Sass of MediaDailyNews reports. Vizio’s Profiles will be hosted by Laura Okmin and feature in-depth profiles of football stars. [...]
WVLT Pushes Sports in Knoxville
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
WVLT, Gray Television’s CBS affiliate in Knoxville, TN, is going on the offensive by emphasizing its sports programming, Price Colman of TVNewsCheck reports. The station boasts exclusive local rights to the University of Tennessee’s Vol Network, exclusive Southeastern Conference football and basketball games, live weekly high school football match-ups, and market exclusivity for events including [...]
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