{"id":35431,"date":"2011-12-27T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=35431"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:27:21","slug":"svg-year-in-review-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2011\/12\/27\/svg-year-in-review-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG Year in Review: May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of May was stacked to the brim with several high profile events, including NBC\u2019s coverage of the <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/first-act-of-nbc-sports-group%27s-triple-crown-hits-the-stage\/\">Kentucky Derby<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/with-triple-crown-in-play-nbc%27s-gaudelli-brings-fresh-take-to-preakness\/\">the Preakness Stakes<\/a>, , <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/tennis-channel-to-serve-up-3d-and-more-at-french-open\/\">Tennis Channel\u2019s presentation of the French Open in 3D,<\/a> <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/espn-abc-look-forward-and-back-for-indy-500\/\">ESPN\/ABC\u2019s work at the Indy 500<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/nbc-sports-group-puts-tpc-sawgrass-in-spotlight-at-players-championship\/\">the Players Championship<\/a> on NBC and Versus and, <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/strategic-tv-back-in-the-transmission-ring-for-pacquiao%E2%80%93mosley\/\">the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley fight<\/a> (and Showtimes\u2019s Fight Camp 360\u00b0 series leading up to it), the NBA Playoffs, <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/nbc-versus-deliver-for-nhl-fans-dialed-into-surround-sound\/\">NBC Sports Group\u2019s NHL Playoffs coverage<\/a>, of course, <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/cbs-news-royal-wedding-coverage-proves-out-new-live-event-workflows\/\">the Royal Wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the tent-pole events, May brought big announcements in the sports television world, including <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/ebersol-departs-nbc-sports-group-replaced-by-lazarus\/\">Dick Ebersol\u2019s shocking departure from NBC<\/a> Sports Group as chairman (though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/news\/television\/ebersol-returns-nbc-nfl-olympics-consultant-134527\">he has since returned<\/a> as an Olympics and Sunday Night Football consultant), as well as the retirement of long-time president Ken Schanzer. In addition, the Pac-12 inked a <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/pac-10-teams-with-fox-espn-to-become-college%E2%80%99s-richest-conference\/\">lucrative rights deals with Fox and ESPN<\/a> and announced <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/in-forming-new-network-pac-12-takes-lessons-from-big-ten\/\">plans to launch a conference network<\/a> (later to become six RSNs and a main network).<\/p>\n<p>SVG also hosted <a href=\"..\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/inside-look-at-espn-3d-highlights-svg%E2%80%99s-3d-beyond-summit\/\">the 3D &amp; Beyond Summit<\/a> at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, providing an overview of the latest developments in next-generation technologies like 3D, 1080p, and 4K. At the Summit, Sony announced that it had extended its ESPN 3D sponsorship for another season. <a href=\"..\/3d-beyond\/press\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for SVG\u2019s full coverage of the event, including an inside look at ESPN 3D, the Masters in 3D, 2D-to-3D conversion, the latest 3D automation technology, and 3D graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of May was stacked to the brim with several high profile events, including NBC\u2019s coverage of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, , Tennis Channel\u2019s presentation of [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2011\/12\/27\/svg-year-in-review-may-2\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3882],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}