Recent Posts by SVG Contributor
By SVG Contributor | Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 1:05 pm
As the world awaits a post-pandemic era, the return of live sports – including the recently concluded Summer Games – is encouraging sports fans worldwide to gather and view major […]
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By SVG Contributor | Friday, October 15, 2021 - 9:24 am
The ‘Transformation in Broadcasting’ session at the Sky Sport Summit 2021 provided a whirlwind summary of the year’s key trends and developments in sports broadcasting. Featuring Andreas Heyden, the CEO […]
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By SVG Contributor | Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 12:55 pm
October 5, 2021 marked the passing of a true motion picture and television engineering icon, Henry (Hank) Mahler at age 84. After graduating from Stevens College with a BSEE, Hank […]
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By SVG Contributor | Friday, October 8, 2021 - 10:05 am
An Apple “Think Different” poster of Ted Turner hangs in my home office. Before Ted, TV news was delivered a few times a day by stations covering news, weather, and […]
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By SVG Contributor | Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 1:44 pm
The nature of sports consumption is rapidly evolving, with highly interactive, personalized experiences shaping viewing habits. Fans tuning into major finals across the sporting calendar have more customization options at […]
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By SVG Contributor | Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 11:44 am
When it comes to effectively managing TV playout, there are many challenges broadcasters are faced with, including having to meet tight schedules and deadlines. Therefore, it is important to have […]
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By SVG Contributor | Monday, September 27, 2021 - 9:39 am
The Olympics and the following Paralympic Games are the largest broadcast events we typically work on at Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS), but even so, Tokyo 2020 represented a landmark for […]
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By SVG Contributor | Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 7:00 am
The way sports rights are packaged and sold is being radically rethought in the digital era, as sports rights-holders recalibrate their content strategies towards streaming-first models. Sports rights are traditionally […]
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By SVG Contributor | Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 10:00 am
Until the publishing of the DASH-IF’s Content Protection Information Exchange Format (CPIX) specification in 2015, there was no standard payload format that encoders and packagers could leverage when requesting encryption […]
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By SVG Contributor | Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 2:46 pm
NBC Sports is going all out for its coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics overseas, but, for this large-scale effort, the stateside team in Stamford, CT, is pitching in with […]
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