Mediatec Broadcast, an international leader in broadcast production, has chosen Grass Valley to enable its ongoing expansion in the global live broadcast and events market. Grass Valley will help Mediatec Broadcast standardize and streamline its broadcast acquisition and production workflows to increase productivity across the organization. Headquartered in Sweden, Mediatec Broadcast will deploy a total of 46 complete [...]

While Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence stumbled as she approached the stage to accept her Oscar, she can’t blame AVS camera cables. There weren’t any. AVS (Aerial Video Systems) was at the 85th Academy Awards in force, tuxedos and all.  AVS HD RF cameras have become a staple of the Red Carpet and main show and this [...]

Bexel has launched a Technical Sales and Solutions division. Known as Bexel TSS, the division merges Bexel’s pre-owned equipment offered by Broadcast Video Gear (BVG), with new equipment featured by Audio Specialties Group (ASG), including audio and intercom products and solutions, RF-over-fiber and Managed Antenna Systems. Bexel TSS will also be expanding their new video sales by [...]

The Charlotte Knights – the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox – have hired TSE Services to consult new technologies being incorporated into BB&T Ballpark, scheduled to open Spring 2014 in uptown Charlotte, NC. TSE will be responsible for the oversight and purchasing of nine state-of-the-art LED displays, along with three scoreboards set to [...]

ESPN Films Director of Development Daniel Silver set a creative tone early on for a standing-room crowd of 150 video professionals at HBO’s Michael Fuchs Theater at SportsPost NY, Sports Video Group’s first event focused solely on postproduction strategies and technologies. “[Compared with] others working in the world of content production,” he said, “we have [...]

Haivision, a leader in enterprise IP video streaming solutions, continues its strong growth momentum to $50 million in annual revenue, with a 390 percent revenue increase in its new cloud-based media delivery services. The company has been continuously profitable since 2008 and its high revenue growth has been achieved through a 45.5-percent compound annual growth [...]

Venture Christian Church, a house of worship in Silicon Valley, has outfitted its newly renovated video production facility with a Utah Scientific UTAH-100/UDS Universal Distribution System. The new HD-SDI routing system serves as the heart of the facility, which was completely rebuilt to convert it from an analog, composite, 4:3 aspect ratio system to a [...]

DiGiCo has added Fernando Delgado as Sales Application Specialist. Delgado joins DiGiCo from Rental Multimedia Systems S.L. in Spain, where he spent eight years, and will be working alongside Dan Page to provide technical support to the DiGiCo sales team, as well as offering new ideas. With Spanish as his native language, Fernando will  also [...]

Spectra Logic announced strong revenue and profitability results for the first half of fiscal year 2013, which ended December 31. Following six consecutive years of profitability, Spectra Logic’s momentum continued as high capacity, tape-based archives have become the prevailing standard for media and entertainment, high performance computing (HPC), cloud and general IT organizations challenged with storing, [...]

NewTek and  VirtualArtsTV have partnered for the WiredArts Fest, a “first of its kind, live-streamed performing arts festival.” The festival has been created along the lines of a Fringe Festival, but online, where the audience is global, seating is unlimited and viewers can participate in live chat discussions, interact through Twitter and Facebook, while the performance is happening [...]

Telling the story, whether in a long-form feature or a 30-second tease, requires more than good equipment and technical knowledge. Yet, as the industry shifts toward file-based workflow, both are pivotal to getting content from the field to air. At SVG’s first-annual SportsPost:NY event, hosted by HBO, leading producer and postproduction professionals discussed their storytelling [...]

Envivio, a provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, announced that Totalplay Telecomunicaciones SA, a cable and IPTV service provider in Mexico, has deployed Envivio Muse encoders for its live and on-demand video services. Totalplay is a subsidiary of Grupo Salinas, a leading media and financial services company in Mexico. Totalplay wanted to extend [...]

The DTV Audio Group, in association with the Sports Video Group has scheduled the 2013 DTV Audio Production and Distribution Seminar for Sunday April 7 during the NAB Show. It will be held at 1:00-5:30 p.m. at the Alexis Park Hotel, 375 East Harmon, Las Vegas. Registration for this free-of-charge event is now open, and all [...]

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Show Partners has renewed its mobile/integrator sponsorship. Show Partners is a professional services company that offers national broadcast, cable and corporate clients an effective, single-source provider of high-value production, operations, and engineering solutions. Founded in 1985, Show Partners works with clients such as FOX, CBS Sports, NBC, [...]

With a keen eye on the live-sports and entertainment market, Ericsson has announced a new end-to-end LTE Broadcast concept that it says will revolutionize delivery of live video over mobile networks. It combines three of the latest standards — HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), and eMBMS (Evolved Multimedia Broadcast [...]

Thirteen mobile-production units were on hand in Houston to broadcast the 2013 NBA All-Star Game; one company kept them running. For the 13th consecutive year, Cat Entertainment Services (CES) delivered power-generation and temperature-control equipment for NBA’s annual showcase.

Harris Digital Out-Of-Home comes to this week’s Digital Signage Expo (Feb. 27-28, Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth 907) with new innovations to amplify consumer engagement and extend business management reach.  The company will demonstrate dynamic video and graphical content generated through its latest InfoCaster release. Additionally, new Punctuate software tools extend business management beyond single-channel [...]

The start of Spring Training games from Florida and Arizona this past week marked the return of live baseball games to MLB Advanced Media’s two flagship subscription products, MLB.TV and MLB.com At Bat. Baseball fans accessed 1.2 million live audio and video streams of the first available Spring Training games this past weekend across supported wired and [...]

By Paul Gallo SVG Executive Editor Riedel Communications supplied several wireless camera solutions and audio/video signal distribution services for the 2013 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Feb. 4-17 in Schladming, Austria. Working with Munich-based sono Studiotechnik GmbH, which oversaw set up of the International Broadcast Center for host broadcaster ORF, Riedel installed a comprehensive fiber [...]

FC Dallas and Time Warner Cable have agreed to the most extensive television broadcast deal in the club’s 18-year history in advance of the 2013 season. This season Time Warner Cable SportsChannel will air 22 FC Dallas regular-season games. In Dallas, Time Warner Cable SportsChannel is available on channel 185 (SD) and channel 148 (HD). [...]

Last week, EVS announced a new market-focused strategy. The announcement responds to a growing worldwide viewer demand for more engaging live programming, and supports the increasing desire for content owners to enrich their live content. The new strategy includes a focus on four key markets: Sports, Entertainment, News and Media; a new internal structure led by a [...]

TVU Networks has secured a new round of investment funding. SoftBank Ventures Korea (SBVK) has joined TVU’s initial investors Altos Ventures and New Atlantic Ventures in providing a new round of funding that will enable TVU to accelerate its industry-leading innovation in IP-based video transmission, management and distribution solutions; further its market leadership in North America, [...]

NCAA.com, managed by Turner Sports, will provide fans with access to more than 300 hours of live streaming coverage for more than 90 events of the 2013 NCAA winter championships. Live coverage begins Wednesday, March 6, with the National Collegiate Skiing finals from Middlebury, Vt., and the Division II Swimming & Diving finals from Birmingham, [...]

With awards season well underway, Bexel is in full force – providing E! Entertainment Television with the field equipment and engineering support it requires for the live broadcast of some of Hollywood’s most renowned awards shows. Bexel’s equipment and dedicated engineers successfully supported the network’s coverage of the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Grammy Awards, [...]

Level 3 Communications has appointed Jackie Donaldson to Director of Sales for its Vyvx Solutions business – a business that has been integral in bringing events like the Super Bowl, Olympics and the Democratic National Convention to viewers all across the globe.

The Beach Sports Network is expanding their reach by partnering with the Professional Disc Golf Association. Adding disc golf to the network that already includes beach volleyball and watercross (jet ski racing) will increase their television production schedule to 20 shows, as well as expand its future distribution to a dedicated online portal that will [...]

Cobalt Digital is on the move. Citing tremendous growth as the catalyst, Chris Shaw, Cobalt Digital’s EVP of sales and marketing, has announced that the company is moving to larger quarters in Champaign, IL.

Following the recent honour of being designated to receive the Order of Canada, John Ross, Founder of Ross Video, has now received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions as a technology innovator in the Broadcast industry. On February 6, John received the additional medal at a formal presentation gala at Roy Thompson [...]

The 2012-13 NFL season might be remembered for a number of things, but one of those should be its audio. Two years after losing the foundational on-field microphone position, when the league moved the umpire from the defensive side to the offensive backfield to improve umpire safety, on-field audio has never been better.

Compiled by Karen Hogan, Associate Editor, Sports Video Group The Baltimore Ravens are planning to spend $35 million on stadium improvements to enhance the fans game-day experience. The four new LED boards will give Ravens’ fans constant updates of out-of-town scores and fantasy football stats, along with different vantage points on replays. Two new high-definition [...]

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Reality Check Systems (RCS) has renewed its platinum sponsorship. RCS offers innovative broadcast solutions such as graphics, video, and custom hardware and software.

There have been few places more frenetic than a college athletics conference office over the past half decade. Television rights deals have poured more wealth into the industry than ever before, but realignment led to chaos and uncertainty. One of the conferences most impacted by the insanity was the Mountain West. Seemingly left up a [...]

by Tom Buffolano, Chairman, SVG College Sports Summit Awards season is here, and we’re gearing up for the 2013 SVG/NACDA College Sports Media Awards (CSMA) entry process to begin. Unlike many of the other awards competitions, especially in sports, we recruit judges who themselves produce video for college sports. We don’t have an Academy nor [...]

NASCAR fans tuning into this Sunday’s Daytona 500 on Fox better fasten their seatbelts before flipping on their big-screens. Inertia Unlimited’s newly modified GopherCam system promises to offer a unique — and startling — new perspective.

This week, NFL Network and NFL.com once again return to Indianapolis’s Lucas Oil Stadium for the annual pinnacle of prospect-dom: the NFL Scouting Combine. Although the Combine may still trail its big brother — the NFL Draft — as the league’s highest-profile off-season event, it has nonetheless evolved into a massive production effort on par [...]

Fox Sports heads into NASCAR’s Daytona 500 and the 2013 season with a couple of great storylines. Not only has Danica Patrick nabbed the pole position and also has a developing romance with fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., but a truckload of new technologies designed to enhance the broadcast give fans and non-fans alike plenty [...]

March Madness may still be five weeks away, but, in celebration of the Men’s Basketball Tournament’s 75th anniversary, the NCAA is using its robust video archive to get fans talking college hoops now.

St. Cloud State University’s Husky Productions has earned Best of Festival for Sports in the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts awards.

NCAA March Madness Live will provide college basketball fans with unparalleled multiscreen digital access to the 2013 NCAADivision I Men’s Basketball Championship. Produced by Turner Sports, NCAA March Madness Live will offer free streaming across all devices to pay TV subscribers throughout the tournament and is designed to be either a primary or companion viewing [...]

CBT Systems, a video media design, consulting, and integration company, which provides services for clients ranging from the NFL Network and NHL to Disney, Paramount and Google-YouTube, to name a few, chose the Studio Technologies Live-Link Remote Camera Interface System to be the centerpiece of its unmanned, pre-positioned camera systems for live sports and event [...]

NeuLion, Inc., an enabler and provider of live and on-demand sports content to Internet-connected devices, announced a partnership expansion with Sportsnet to deliver the Grand Slam of Curling via an exciting online sports streaming service. NeuLion’s proprietary Television Everywhere (TVE) Platform, licensed by Sportsnet, gives viewers worldwide the ability to purchase all 4 major curling [...]

AJA Video Systems, a manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, recently delivered AJA Ki Pro portable tapeless recorders to the editorial team of A Good Day to Die Hard to facilitate preview screenings of the film to United States troops stationed in Kuwait. A Good Day to Die Hard stars Bruce Willis returning [...]

Front Porch Digital, a leader in cloud-based content storage management (CSM) solutions, announced that its Archive eXchange Format (AXF) open-archiving technology is seeing broad adoption among archivists and media organizations around the world. Installations at esteemed organizations such as Laboratoire Éclair, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NIBG), Danish Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, [...]

Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed today announced the immediate availability of Aspera Sync 1.4 and Aspera Console 1.7, delivering a complete end-to-end solution for high-performance synchronization and replication of today’s largest big data file stores—from millions of individual files to the largest file sizes.

Vizrt Middle East, based in Dubai, will be on hand at CABSAT with a large booth designed to display the complete graphics and video workflow Vizrt has created for broadcasters. CABSAT is the Middle East and Africa’s largest broadcast digital media and satellite expo. Held annually in Dubai, the show gives media companies across the [...]

Grass Valley has announced, effective immediately, the appointment of Stephen Wong as Senior Vice President of APAC. With more than 30 years of experience in the television broadcast industry, including a first spell with the Grass Valley Group (1999-2002) and additional senior roles at Thomson, Tektronix, Phillips, Ampex, and Redifussion Television, Wong joins the company [...]

For world-class recording artists including Bruno Mars, Sting, Zac Brown, Miranda Lambert, Alicia Keys, and Ed Sheeran, Sennheiser was the microphone and wireless system of choice for the 55th annual Grammy Awards event, held at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on February 10. The evening’s telecast, hosted for a second time by LL [...]

In 2012, a DiGiCo SD7 was installed in Jiguchon Church in the South Korea’s Bundang New City. Because of its success,  four more of the company’s mixers have now been installed in another church in the city, demonstrating how DiGiCo mixing consoles are making significant inroads into the country’s house of worship market. Featuring a [...]

iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live event and live linear streaming video solutions, announced that Robin Cole, vice president of products and services, will give a talk at 2013 OTTCON titled “OTT Live Linear: Where Is It Going, and How Do You Get There?” The session will take place March 19 from 3:45 to 4:15 [...]

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