From U.S. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps s eight Gold Medal wins to Jamaica s dominance on the track, all of the events ups and downs at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were captured for the first time in high-definition...

By Andrew Lippe Major League Baseball has implemented instant-replay in order to resolve disputed home-run calls -- deciding whether a home-run ball is fair or foul, whether it has left the playing field, or whether it has been subject to...

By Carl Lindemann At CBS Sports, this season s NFL football coverage will mark the last in the transition to end-to-end HD. According to Ken Aagaard, EVP of Engineering, Operations and Production Services (Editor s note: Aagaard also serves as...

Venue news this week ranged from breakdowns in Beijing to startups in Baltimore, Louisville, and London. Here are some snapshots from this week's top arena, stadium and venue news. Beginning in September, Nortel is launching a three-year project to outfit...

Multichannel News reports that Comcast will cap Internet usage of its broadband subscribers at 250 Gigabytes per month—a very large amount of data, the equivalent of 62,500 digital songs—starting Oct. 1. The operator Thursday posted an amendment to its terms...

The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Raycom Media Inc. on Thursday because the company hasn't yet sold its Richmond, Va., CBS affiliate following the company's acquisition of the NBC affiliate in that market, the Wall Street...

By Carolyn Braff The University of Oklahoma is home to one of the nation s most successful athletic programs, so fan demand for Sooner content is never satisfied. For director of athletics Joe Castiglione, providing the fans with quality off-field...

ESPN360.com, the broadband sports television network from ESPN, has reached a new, expanded agreement to bring U.S. soccer fans another of the world’s top International soccer competitions – Italy’s Serie A (aka Serie A TIM). ESPN360.com will deliver eight matches...

When exclusive TV contracts restrict a school s ability to broadcast as many events as it would like to, sports broadcasting directors turn their energies elsewhere, like the inside of the control room. Michigan State University s Rick Church has...

As college football season kicks off, BlueArc Corporation has announced that the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) has expanded the use of its BlueArc Titan storage solution housed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to bring even more teams fast...

By John Rice When ESPNU began promoting its slate of college-football games, it deployed a new graphics package created by New York production house Blue Room. The package will be used to tout all of ESPNU's coverage throughout the season....

Qualcomm, a wireless chip maker, and CTIA, the wireless industry's lobbying association in Washington, are calling for empty television channels, known as white spaces, to be auctioned off and licensed. According to the Washington Post, Qualcomm said licensing the airwaves...

To enrich the viewing experience of on-site and on-line Buffalo Bills fans, the NFL franchise recently purchased Panasonic P2 HD production equipment to shoot game-day features that will be shown on the team’s 82’ by 35’ in-stadium HD video display....

According to Multichannel News, Dish Network, the satellite TV provider, is telling the Federal Communications Commission that large cash demands by TV stations could lead to carriage disputes early next year on the eve of the transition to all-digital broadcasting....

The International Herald Tribune reports that next season, advertisements at soccer stadiums may depend on where you watch the game -- viewers in China could catch an ad for a Beijing car dealership superimposed on Manchester United's Old Trafford ground....

By John Rice CBS coverage of NFL and college football games this season will involve greater use of virtual graphics across the spectrum of all the games. “We’re still working with Sportvision for our A-crew games with Phil Simms and...

Daktronics has been chosen to design, manufacture, and install a video display featuring its HD-X technology in Amon G. Carter Stadium on Texas Christian University's campus in Fort Worth, and new integrated video and scoring display systems for Appalachian State...

Digital Transport Agnostic Gateway Solutions, a remote transmissions provider has a new address in Bixby OK. DTAGS new address is 11835-D South Memorial , Bixby , OK 74008 . The main phone number is 918 398-0061 and their Fax number...

Tianjin TV, one of China's leading independent broadcasters, equipped its Outside Broadcast vans for their Olympic coverage with Vision Head and Tripod systems and Pro-Ped Pedestals from Vinten, a Vitec Group brand. Vinten Vector Pan and Tilt Heads are already...

Gary Adcock, a pioneer in advanced HD post-production workflows and founder of consulting firm Studio 37, has incorporated the Sonnet Fusion R400Q rackmount four-drive SATA storage system into a mobile solution that supports flexible, secure storage of all digital content...