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The 2009 NCAA Men’s College World Series was the most-viewed and
highest-rated in ESPN’s and ESPN2’s history. ESPN averaged 1.45 million
households, 1.928 million viewers and a 1.5 household rating, while
ESPN2 tallied 821,000, 1.043 million and an 0.8, respectively. | Full Story
The Southwestern Athletic Conference implemented network-bundled
video-editing solutions from LRS Sports conferencewide for all 10 of
its schools. Each network bundle includes a server, two laptops,
video-editing software, a camera with accessories, and skills-transfer
tutorials. | Full Story
Comcast SportsNet Chicago will air a one-hour documentary about Notre
Dame’s head football coach Sunday at 4:30 p.m. CT. The regional sports
network said The Foundation of Charlie Weis,
narrated by CSN’s Dan Jiggetts, “will take viewers into the personal
lives of Weis and his wife, Maura, for an exclusive interview where we
learn about their very special 14-year-old daughter, Hannah.” | Full Story
Old Dominion University’s facility management company, Global Spectrum,
has selected Big Screen Network Productions, Inc. as its video board
production company as part of a three-year deal. BSN Productions will
be the video board content provider for the Monarchs’ first NCAA
football season since 1938, and their men’s and women’s basketball
programs. | Full Story
Neutrik USA donated several DL Series XLR connectors to Oregon State
University for its Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
project, which features student design and development of small
formula-style racecars built to rigid safety and performance
specifications. | Full Story
Washington State University will use its new IDX CW-5HD/CAM~WAVE
wireless-transmission-system package for a two-camera live close-up
field-coverage system during broadcasts of all of its local Cougars
football games in HD. | Full Story
HBO is looking for a post-production coordinator. The ideal candidate
will work with producers in coordinating shoots and edits for boxing
post production. Click through to see the primary responsibilities and requirements of the position.
| Full Story ESPN’s 30th consecutive season of NCAA Men’s College World Series
coverage is drawing higher ratings than its 29th season through its
first eight games. ESPN is averaging 1.278 million total viewers (up
34% versus 2008), 976,000 households (up 30%), and a 1.0 rating (up
25%). | Full Story
NBA TV and NBA.com are feeling a draft—the 2009 NBA Draft. The league’s
cable network and Website will provide all-access coverage leading up
to and throughout the selection event, which will be held at the WaMu
Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York Thursday, June 25. | Full Story
The first-annual College Sports Video Summit, held June 9-10 in Atlanta, was an unprecedented success. With 450 attendees representing college and university athletic departments, athletic conferences, television networks, and technology providers, the Summit brought together decision makers across the college-sports-video landscape for two days of panel discussions, workshops, and networking.
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Mid-tier athletic departments would love for broadcasters like ESPNU or CBS College Sports Network to roll onto their campus to televise field-hockey or soccer games, but most campuses do not have the infrastructure that those networks require to make the production work. In fact, most athletic departments are unaware of what that infrastructure is and how to go about building it. With that in mind, the Saturday Afternoon Live panel at SVG’s inaugural College Sports Video Summit, held last week in Atlanta, discussed the needs of broadcasters and colleges for live-event production on campus.
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The growing size and capability of in-arena video boards ensures that
fans inside college arenas are now treated to a fantastic show. But
what about the fans that cannot make it to the arena, and the sports
that don’t have high-resolution video boards? At SVG’s inaugural
College Sports Video Summit, held last week in Atlanta, experts from
colleges, conferences, and networks took the stage to discuss
maximizing content in what has become a virtual arena. | Full Story
Gator Nation will feast its eyes on two of the largest video screens in
college football when the University of Florida kicks off its home
schedule at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, or “The Swamp,” with new displays
that will be designed, manufactured, and installed this summer by
Daktronics. | Full Story
When it comes to mobile-television-production trucks, bigger is no longer necessarily better, so NEP’s newest big truck, SS20, is designed to act like a medium-size truck as well.
| Full Story
At SVG’s inaugural College Sports Video Summit last week in Atlanta, social media invaded almost every discussion. The built-in population of tech-savvy 18- to 22-year-olds makes college campuses social-media hubs by default, and college athletic departments are expected to follow suit. Many of them have already done so, embracing platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but many are not sure what exactly their strategy entails or why they are involved. Kathleen Hessert, president of Sports Media Challenge, moderated a panel discussing these issues on the first day of the Summit before going into further detail on the second day, during her keynote address.
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Starting in January 2011, the Rose Bowl has a new TV home: ESPN. The
network announced the addition of the annual event, following its
previous announcement that it will air 15 other Bowl Championship
Series games—including the Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and
BCS National Championship—as part of a new, multiyear agreement also
beginning in January 2011. | Full Story
The development of a sports video department at a college or university
may seem like a lonely business, but by working through and with a
conferencewide video initiative, schools can more quickly meet the
sports content needs of alumni, students, athletes, and parents. And it
does not necessarily need to be a multimillion-dollar investment. “From
a conference standpoint, you should be able to get the approval to give
a laptop and camera starter set to begin streaming events,” said Kelly
Carney, Conference USA associate commissioner, during a panel
discussion at the first annual College Sports Video Summit. | Full Story
The first day of SVG’s inaugural College Sports Video Summit, held this
week in Atlanta, ended with a bang, as five heavyweights of college
sports programming took the stage. Conference chair Tom Buffolano
moderated as experts from across the college sports landscape offered
attendees a view from the top, examining the rights relationship
between networks and universities. According to the panel, the current
trend toward aggregating rights at the conference level is here to
stay, which means that the schools themselves have plenty of questions
to answer if they are going to get their own piece of the
rights-agreement pie. | Full Story
KGEB TV-53 in Tulsa, OK, the TV station for Oral Roberts University,
deployed Ikegami Electronics’s GFCam HDS-V10 Flash Memory tapeless HD
camcorder as part of its full-service, two-studio HD-video facility. | Full Story
CBS Sports and CBS College Sports Network will present live coverage of
the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field
Championships Friday and Saturday from Fayetteville, AR. This marks the
fourth consecutive year of coverage by the programmer. | Full Story
Comcast launched ESPNU on its cable systems in Hattiesburg and Laurel, MS, enabling college baseball fans to watch Southern Mississippi play Florida in the NCAA Super Regionals Saturday. The cable operator says its will launch ESPNU in a majority of its systems in time for the start of the 2009 college football season. | Full Story
An alliance of industry-leading companies, including HighSchoolSports.net and PrepAthlete.com, has been formed to bring high school sports-video creation and distribution to the next level. And with more than 16,000 high schools working with the companies on some level, the unified platform could gain marketplace traction.
| Full Story
The University of Central Florida wants area teen-agers to feel UKnighted. UCF Athletics and UCF TV teamed up on the 30-minute educational program, which
aims to help youngsters succeed in school, sports, and life. | Full Story The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the
Sports Video Group (SVG) have announced the nominees for the first
annual Global Media Awards for College Sports. The awards celebrate
excellence across the entire spectrum of college sports video
production, including work by colleges and universities, national and
regional sports networks, and technology innovators. | Full Story
Next week, at the inaugural College Sports Video Summit,
sports broadcasters, college and university professionals, and
technology providers will meet for two days of panel discussions and
workshops designed to advance the creation, production, and
distribution of college sports video. Tom Buffolano, a 20-year veteran
of television and digital programming, production, and marketing, is
the chair of the summit. In this week’s SVG Audible, Buffolano
discusses the formation of the Summit, the Global Media Awards for
College Sports, and what attendees can look forward to during their two
days in Atlanta. | Full Story
Next week, at the inaugural College Sports Video Summit,
sports broadcasters, college and university professionals, and
technology providers will meet for two days of panel discussions and
workshops. The event, chaired by Tom Buffolano, is designed to help
advance the creation, production, and distribution of sports video
content at the college level. Days before the event, Buffolano checked
in with SVG to discuss the formation of the Summit, the Global Media
Awards for College Sports, and what attendees can look forward to. | Full Story
The College Sports Video Summit (CSVS), to be held June 9-10 in Atlanta, has gained enormous traction in the college and university community. With the Summit just a week away, anticipation is building as college and university video professionals look forward to meeting with their conference, television, and online partners. Leslie Wurzberger, associate athletics director, marketing, for the University of Washington, will be attending the Summit and spent a few minutes with SVG to discuss what she expects going into the event.
| Full Story
The Mtn. – Mountain West Sports Network's Nine Schools, Nine Weeks programming—which will showcase each of the Mountain West Conference's nine universities, featuring the best games and shows from each respective school—kicks off Monday. | Full Story
SVG and member companies Turner Sports, the NBA, the Orland Magic, Fox
Sports, and IMS Productions gave more than 20 college students a great
way to end the school year by opening their doors and letting students
go behind the scenes of a professional sports TV production.
| Full Story When ESPN made the decision to make College Football Live
a year-round program, it also introduced a conundrum: What will the
program feature during the summer that will keep viewers coming back?
The answer is the “College Football Live 50 States Tour,” giving each
state a chance to stand in the spotlight for at least one afternoon. | Full Story
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