For the past two months, Universal Sports has been in the midst of a major transition, moving into new studio space in Westlake Village, CA, and solving the challenges posed by a new HD workflow. For the past two weeks, however, Universal Sports has been a well-oiled machine, producing five hours of morning coverage from [...]

RF transmitters, receive infrastructure, monitoring and distribution facilities from Broadcast Sports, Inc. (BSI) are being used at [...]

The Olympics on NBC Thursday night beat American Idol for the second time in two weeks.  Idol had been undefeated in six years (dating back to May 2004). When going head-to-head against Idol (8-9 p.m.), the Olympics out-drew Idol 19.2 million vs. 17.8 million an advantage of eight percent. Head-to-head (8-9 p.m.), the Olympics out-rated [...]

Inter Milan Manager Jose Mourinho doubtless took great satisfaction in the 2-1 victory over his old club Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League knockout-round first leg, particularly since broadcasters will be replaying the winning goals at every opportunity. Among those broadcasters will be Al-Jazeera Sport, which has been using a new FlashNet archive system since [...]

When it comes to shotgun microphones, broadcast mixers have a wide range of choices. Here are some of them.
Audio-Technica
Based on models originally developed for use in the broadcast of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, both the 14.96-in. BP4027 and the 9.29-in. BP4029 stereo shotgun models feature independent line-cardioid and figure-of-eight elements configured in a mid-side [...]

Txtstation, a company that specializes in combining mobile messaging with live sports broadcasts, has expanded its sales team with the hiring of Tommy Byrnes as director of sales. Byrnes has an extensive background in advertising and marketing, stemming from, but not exclusive to, the sports industry. He brings experience in working [...]

Washington, DC, has seen enough snow in the past few weeks to host the Winter Olympics, and it now appears that the nation’s capital might be home to at least one Olympic sport next winter. The Washington Convention Center and Sports Authority has expressed interest in hosting the NHL’s Winter Classic, an annual outdoor game [...]

NEP Broadcasting, the nation’s largest provider of television production facilities, has brought a team of over 60 staff members along with eight mobile television productions trucks to the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in support of NBC and German Broadcaster ARD/ZDF. For NEP, the Vancouver Games represents the 10th Olympics at which it has provided [...]

According to data from comScore, from Feb. 15-21, “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” has generated more than 706 million page views, 600 million more and 587 percent more than its nearest competitor, Yahoo’s Olympic site (103 million page views). Visitors to NBCOlympics.com also spend more time on the site and view more pages than visitors to Yahoo’s [...]

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) has deployed T-VIPS CP541 Seamless Monitoring Switches from T-VIPS, a provider of professional video contribution and distribution solutions, to provide error-free transmission of Winter Olympic footage to EBU members.
Eurovision, the EBU’s Operation Unit, manages the contribution links between the Whistler winter Olympic facilities, the Vancouver International Broadcasting Center (IBC), and [...]

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