NBA TV’s telecast of seven live games during the 2010 NBA Development League Showcase will be the first HD sports broadcast to utilize a Newtek TriCaster HD portable live production system.
The D-League Showcase runs Monday Jan. 4 through Thursday, Jan. 7 at Qwest Arena in Boise, ID (home of the Idaho Stampede) and features all [...]

Team SVG spent its share of time on the road in 2009, going behind the scenes at the industry’s biggest events and trade shows. Be sure to spend some time at our blogs to refresh your memory of some of the top developments, innovations, production techniques, and faces in the broadcast compounds that make our [...]

It’s the week before the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and 3D-capable consumer TV sets are shaping up to be the hot new product introduction. It also looks like 3D programming in the home also might be a hot introduction at the show as Internet news sites that track the industry are writing that, according [...]

Monday Night Football notched its highest ratings in 2009 since moving to ESPN four years ago. The 40th season of MNF was the most watched cable series in 2009 and set an all-time cable viewership record for the fourth straight year, breaking its own record. MNF accounted for the 15 largest cable household audiences of [...]

During meetings in the days leading up to MLS Cup last month, the league’s Board of Governors heard a presentation, described by one of them as “very impressive,” regarding renovations of Portland’s PGE Park, where an expansion team is scheduled to begin playing in 2011. The details of that renovation have been posted on the [...]

A new Thomson Reuters report on recent world patent activity revealed that 3D technology is among the fastest growing industries in the world, according to the New York Daily News.
The report, which tracked patent applications and patents granted from 2003 to 2009, revealed that 3D TV, 3D photos, and 3D glasses have all shown extremely [...]

News Corp. and Time Warner cable are quickly running out of time on a possible deal to avoid millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers going without the Fox Network and its coverage of BCS college football games this January.
According to The New York Times, Time Warner refuses to meet News Corp.’s demands for a monthly [...]

The NHL’s Winter Classic has come a long way in just a few years, but it may never have even existed without John Collins, who today is the NHL’s chief operating officer, and Jon Miller, executive vice president of NBC Sports.
The Boston Globe takes at how these two men brought what is not a New [...]

DirecTV plans to launch the first fully 3D HD TV channel in the United States early next year, featuring an assortment of movies, sports, and entertainment programs in 3D.
The company’s newest satellite, which will be launched Dec. 28, gives DirecTV the capacity to add an all HD 3D channel. The satellite will be fully operational [...]

NBC Universal will once again provide live streaming coverage of the Olympic Games using the “TV Everywhere” concept, which allows viewers to watch more than 1,000 hours of NBC coverage as long as they subscribe to a cable, satellite, or telco TV service.
The service, tabbed Olympics Online Connect, was used during the 2008 Summer Games [...]

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