Monthly Archives: February 2006
TNT All-Star game broadcast pushes audio
Written on February 20, 2006 at 1:09 pm, by SVG Staff
TNT s NBA 2006 All-Star Weekend telecasts introduced sports viewers to a new microphone system that could become popular in a variety of other sports, the official introduction of the […] More
Live from Houston: Top seven innovations of NBA All-Star Weekend
Written on February 18, 2006 at 8:12 pm, by SVG Staff
The NBA s All-Star game weekend enters overdrive in about 10 minutes with the skills competition, the three-hour event that features long-distance bombs, super slam dunks, and a wealth of […] More
Live from Houston: Sportvision to test mobile service at Daytona
Written on February 18, 2006 at 8:42 am, by SVG Staff
Sportvision is looking to expand the use of its technology beyond NASCAR telecasts and NASCAR.com at the Daytona 500 tomorrow. Among the offerings? A new system for mobile devices that […] More
Live from Houston: AOL’s Conroy discusses localized sports
Written on February 17, 2006 at 6:12 pm, by SVG Staff
While Google steals the streaming video headlines its services like AOL that continue to grab eyeballs with a high-quality streaming experience. And the company isn t stopping at simply DVD-quality […] More
Live from Houston: Inside ESPN’s content strategy with John Skipper
Written on February 17, 2006 at 5:22 pm, by SVG Staff
When it comes to the success ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine found early in the decade much of the credit can go to John Skipper who then was SVP and […] More
WBC offers its own March madness
Written on February 16, 2006 at 2:33 pm, by SVG Staff
When Major League Baseball’s holds its first-ever World Baseball Classic next month ESPN is hoping the unique event will give the network some unique opportunities for coverage. “It’ll be standard […] More
Sony PSP delivers NBA All-Star highlights
Written on February 16, 2006 at 2:30 pm, by SVG Staff
The NBA’s All-Star game is going mobile with the help of Sony’s Playstation. Fans will be able to download NBA All-Star video highlights to their PSP system, including video highlights […] More
VertigoXMedia delivers STATS
Written on February 14, 2006 at 7:09 pm, by SVG Staff
Sports broadcasters looking to get statistics on air even more quickly have a new option: VertigoXmedia s Xstation, an all-in-one system that replaces a standalone video-server, character generator and still-store. […] More
NBC readies for Olympic break in Daytona
Written on February 14, 2006 at 2:45 pm, by SVG Staff
For most people Daytona 500 signifies the beginning of the NASCAR season and the frantic chase for the Nextel Cup. But for Mike Wells, director of NASCAR telecasts for NBC […] More
NASCAR’s Need for SPEED lasts all week long
Written on February 14, 2006 at 10:33 am, by SVG Staff
Next Sunday NASCAR season kicks into high gear with NBC s coverage of the Daytona 500. But this week SPEED, the network devoted top motor sports, gets the coverage out […] More