Fox Sports Goes Public With Plans for FS1 Cable Network, Expects to Expand Production Facilities
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Fox Sports Media Group made the worst-kept secret in sports television public today at a star-studded press conference in New York, announcing its plans to launch a national cable sports network in August, dubbed Fox Sports 1. Fox’s Speed network will officially relaunch as FS1 on Saturday Aug. 17, complete with its own 24-hour news [...]
NASCAR Productions Taps Spectra Logic’s Spectra T-Finity for Video Storage
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
NASCAR Productions has selected Spectra Logic’s Spectra T-Finity tape library to archive 180,000 hours (8.0PB) of NASCAR Productions’ high-resolution video footage. The enterprise-class T-Finity, utilizing LTO data tape technology, will manage and store NASCAR’s vast historical broadcast data, including NASCAR-related events, TV programs, movies, commercials and other broadcast-related data sets. NASCAR’s video footage was previously [...]
Cinedeck will be a featured partner at Facilis Technology’s NYC Workflow Event on March 14. The event will be held on the new 12th floor of the Digital Arts facility at 130 W. 29th Street in Manhattan and will include two 45-minute split sessions.
SportsPost NY: Monetizing Through the Cloud and Calming Security Fears
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Slowly but surely sports production is accepting the idea of working in the mysterious “cloud.” At SVG’s SportsPost NY last week, league reps and technology providers discussed how workflows in the cloud can change the way postproduction operations are run and how cloud technology opens up a world of new opportunities. Among such opportunities are [...]
Harmonic Launches Cloud-Based Professional Video Transcoding Service
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Harmonic has launched a cloud-based transcoding service for professional applications available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. ProMedia Carbon MP, powered by Harmonic Rhozet technology used in the ProMedia Carbon transcoding engine, enables content creators, service providers, and media professionals to convert broadcast-quality video content to various standard media formats.
EVS, SGL Announce Technology Partnership
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Software Generation announced a technology partnership with EVS. The partnership will see SGL FlashNet integrated with IPDirector, EVS’ suite of video production management applications. This will enable broadcasters and production companies to transfer media seamlessly from EVS live production servers to the SGL FlashNet archive library through EVS’ IP2Archive module in IPDirector. The SGL FlashNet [...]
CEI Sales Adds Rudy Niznansky as Sales Engineer
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
CEI Sales announced that Rudy Niznansky, a broadcast, cable and satellite industry veteran, has joined CEI Sales as Sales Engineer.
Schubin Cafe: Watching Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television (Really!)
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The Schubin Café has been plenty busy lately, so make sure to head over to schubincafe.com for tech guru Mark Schubin’s latest musings on how America Watched Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television. Visit the Schubin Cafe for that video as well as plenty more video treats including: Watching Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television [...]
NeuLion announced the delivery of MLS LIVE, the ultimate digital soccer experience for fans to watch live, condensed and archived MLS games in HD. MLS LIVE, powered by NeuLion, has seen a 125% growth in subscriptions each and every year since migrating to NeuLion’s technology platform. MLS LIVE has been available on a robust list of [...]
ESPN to Air Select Liga MX Matches in English
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
ESPN has reached a multimedia rights extension with Azteca América to air Liga MX, Mexico’s premier national soccer league, and Copa MX, the nation’s football cup competition, in the United States through 2015. The agreement enhances ESPN’s multimedia coverage of Mexico’s top soccer properties by placing, for the first time, Mexican club matches on ESPN’s [...]
The more the merrier. After announcing last month that the ACC Digital Network is now available on about 300 million devices, the conference and its digital-platform–technology partner, Silver Chalice, this week roll out their Affiliate Program, intended to get ACC Digital Network content in front of even more eyeballs through placement of embedded video players.
Since breaking into the UK music scene in 2009 with three top 20 singles, Paloma Faith has had two platinum-selling albums. Currently in the midst of an extensive UK tour, her FOH [front-of-house] engineer, Huw Richards, is working on a DiGiCo SD10 with SD Rack.
PAC Engineering Picks Hitachi DK-Z50 HD Cameras for Union-Tribune San Diego Production Studio
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America today announced that PAC Engineering—a full-service systems design and integration firm in San Diego—installed three Hitachi DK-Z50 multi-format HDTV box cameras at a news production studio they built for Union-Tribune San Diego. The cameras are situated on CamBot robotic camera systems from Ross Video.
Broadcast Sports, Inc. Captures Carnival Parade Broadcasts in Brazil
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Broadcast Sports Inc. (BSI) helped TV Globo bring Carnival to the thousands of Brazilian viewers who didn’t make it into the grandstands this year. BSI supplied three HD RF camera systems and an eight-way diversity fiber receive infrastructure to assist in the broadcast of the event.
Officially, it’s the Williams Arena, home to the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s and women’s basketball teams. Informally, though, it’s “The Barn,” a cavernous indoor venue that, since opening in 1928 in Minneapolis, has hosted whatever it has been asked to, from hockey to livestock shows. The facility has always been a sonic challenge: [...]
Venue News: Giants Boost Wireless at AT&T Park; Queens MLS Stadium Plans Leaked
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Compiled by Karen Hogan, Associate Editor, Sports Video Group The San Francisco Giants are boosting AT&T Park’s technology again to stay ahead of demands by users of mobile devices. After smashing records for mobile data traffic during last season’s championship run, the Giants developed a two-year plan to improve the wireless experience at a stadium [...]
CBT Systems, CP Communications Renew as SVG Sponsors
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that CBT Systems and CP Communications have renewed their mobile/integrator sponsorships. CBT Systems is a leader in systems integration and engineering for the television broadcast industry. CP Communications is a full service production equipment company providing the Rental, Sales, Service, Repair and Design of specialized RF, video, and [...]
SVG Members Area
Upcoming Events
SVG Highlights
Microsite Spotlight
Team SVG
