Kurt
Heitmann and the good people at CP Communications have established a
memorial trust fund in honor of ESPN and sports industry audio
legend Ron Scalise that will be used for the college education of his
three children: Rosario, 16, RJ, 11, and his daughter Brenna, 10. At
the request of the family this will be the only fund established to
limit confusion. For more information on donating to the fund please
click on this story.
All donations should be made out to the fund and should be sent to:
Kurt G. Heitmann
CP Communications, Inc.
200 Clearbrook Road
Elmsford, NY 10523
Third Annual Sports & Technology Research Study
The Sports Video Group and the Consumer Electronics Association has released the
third-annual “Sports & Technology Research Survey, highlighting the power
that sports content has as both a driver of HD set sales as well as other new
technologies. The survey includes our exclusive 2008 Super Bowl Briefing as
well as new data about consumer online sports viewing behavior.
In an important development in the race to create a definitive way to replace tangles of video cables, Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting
to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals
wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. The Associated Press reports that Sony, Samsung, Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi will develop an industry standard around technology from Amimon Ltd. of
Israel called WHDI, for Wireless Home Digital Interface. Read the full story here.
