Major League Baseball fans will have more chances than ever to catch their favorites teams in HD as more than 3,000 MLB games will be telecast in HD via regional cable networks, local TV stations, and national networks. According to...

By Kevin Hilton SVG Europe editor The Oxford-Cambridge University Boat Race, among the most English of all sporting events, hit a UK television audience peak of 7.6 million on Saturday, the highest number of viewers since ITV took over coverage...

By Ken Kerschbaumer Fujinon will introduce a more cost-effective line of ENG lenses for an HD market segment that continues to move to smaller-scale (and lower-cost) sporting events. “While there is great demand for our HA premier Series, many customers...

In this edition of The Schubin Report Mark Schubin explores "Size Matters" before giving the answer to the last quiz. Mark then discusses "The on percent solution" and asks the new quiz question.

The New York Times reports that baseball fans in China will be able to see highlights, scores, photographs, statistics and some games on a new Web site in their language developed by BroadWebAsia under a licensing agreement with the Internet...

By Andrew Lippe National Mobile Television (NMT) played a key role in the KCAL Los Angeles and NESN broadcasts of an MLB pre-season game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox held at the L.A. Coliseum on Saturday...

By Kevin Hilton SVG Europe Editor Setanta Sports has appointed a director of new media to develop the internet and mobile platforms as outlets for its coverage of football, boxing and Gaelic games. The newly created role is filled by...

EVS Canada will open a new office in Montr al. Carl Boislard-Lanois, formerly of CBC Radio-Canada, will be the first member of the EVS Canada team, and will serve as Senior Manager of Products and Systems Integration. "Canadian broadcasters and...

SVG would like to welcome back Canon as they have renewed their Platinum sponsorship. MRC Broadcast and Alliance Productions have also renewed their sposnosrships with SVG.

Catch 47, a regional 24/7 sports broadcaster owned by Bright House Cable Network, has installed Chyron’s Channel Box HD/SD-switchable channel branding and automated promo system. The Channel Box system, installed at Catch 47’s Tampa, Florida facility, will be used to...

By Ken KerschbaumerWhen FSN Southwest, the Dallas Mavericks, Pace 3D and the NBA worked together earlier this week for a digital cinema viewing of Tuesday’s game in 3D HD they did more than prove the technology is suitable for a...

FSN Midwest’s regular-season coverage of St. Louis Cardinals baseball starts opening day, March 31, with the live High Definition (HD) telecast of the Cardinals season opener against the Colorado Rockies and more than 10 hours of live and taped baseball...

By Andrew Lippe Arizona Diamondbacks and Kansas City Royals fans spring fever will be complemented this season by Daktronics HD scoreboards in their ballparks. Chase Field, home to MLB's Diamondbacks, is decorated with the widest LED screen in all of...

The Financial Times reports that the International Olympic Committee has asked China to promise not to delay transmissions of the Beijing games, after France raised concerns about Chinese television’s censoring of Tibet protests at the torch-lighting ceremony in Greece this...

By Ken KerschbaumerWhile the biggest change internally at ESPN News HD will be the move to tapeless workflows (for more info see ESPN News HD Goes Tapeless story) the biggest change for viewers will be the “sideline”: a sidepanel to...

By Andrew Lippe While New York Mets and Yankees fans await state-of-the-art stadiums, Washington Nationals fans just have to wait until Sunday. Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN will give MLB fans the first glimpse of Nationals Park, including its new...

By Ken KerschbaumerRegional Fox Sports Networks (FSN) across the country will be offering viewers more chances to catch their favorite MLB team in HD. For starters Mobile TV Group is building new 48-foot HD production units to meet demand for...

Genesis Networks fiber infrastructure has been chosen by Telef nica Sistemas Audiovisuales Madrid (TSA Madrid) to transmit a package of programming via the SKY Italia satellite platform to TSA viewers in Europe. "In our business, we're often presented with opportunities...

Digital Rapids has been selected to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems to NBC for the network's Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China, August 8-24. Digital Rapids' DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will enable NBC...

By Ken KerschbaumerThis Sunday morning ESPN flips the switch on ESPN News HD, integrating what had been a Digital Betacam tape-based network into the massive ESPN Digital Center architecture that is based around Quantel editing systems and servers. “They will...