Daily Archives: January 9, 2017
Live From CFP Championship: ESPN Lays 15 Miles of Fiber to Support Venue Infrastructure
Written on January 9, 2017 at 9:30 pm, by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
Raymond James Stadium is no doubt a gorgeous stage to host a big-time football game, but, compared with the first two sites of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game — […] More
Live from CFP Championship: In an Industry First, ESPN Will Mount a 4K-capable Super Slow Motion Camera on SkyCam
Written on January 9, 2017 at 7:47 pm, by Michael msilbergleid
Network to deploy Sony’s new HDC-P43 to provide unparalleled coverage By Brandon Costa, Senior Editor, Sports Video Group Slow motion replay technology has seen tremendous advancements over recent years but […] More
Live From CFP Championship: ESPN Deploys ‘Mammoth’ Camera Arsenal With High-Tech Highlights
Written on January 9, 2017 at 4:57 pm, by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
John LaChance has been working on Monday’s production of the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game in some fashion for nearly a year now. Yet, standing outside Game Creek […] More
DC Update: Congress Back in Action
Written on January 9, 2017 at 4:24 pm, by SVG Contributor
Congress returned to session last week and hit the ground running on its new, busy agenda. Issues at the top of the “to-do” list include swearing in new members of […] More
Live From CES 2017: Top League Execs Discuss Future of Fan Engagement
Written on January 9, 2017 at 3:27 pm, by Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director
When the annual CES took over Las Vegas for the past week, the aisles featured the latest in consumer technology of all kinds, but there was a quiet respite from […] More
Live From CFP Championship: For ESPN’s Ed Placey, the Megacast is a ‘Producer’s Dream’
Written on January 9, 2017 at 2:30 pm, by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
In its fourth year, ESPN’s MegaCast has never shied away from rolling the dice and offering new and innovative ways of presenting one of sport’s biggest events. For this year’s College […] More
Four Hidden Stories on Sports Video at CES 2017
Written on January 9, 2017 at 1:48 pm, by SVG Contributor
I don’t have CES bona fides, but I’m sure the 2017 edition was a year not to miss. It was my most inspiring CES yet, and other attendees I spoke […] More
NBC’s Playmaker Media, Turner’s iStreamPlanet Team Up To Compete With BAMTech
Written on January 9, 2017 at 1:46 pm, by Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.
NBC Sports Digital and Turner are partnering up their respective Playmaker Media and iStreamPlanet OTT/live streaming/VOD solutions providers. The long-term partnership puts a bullseye squarely on BAMTech, as the combined entity […] More
Hoaxes?
Written on January 9, 2017 at 12:48 pm, by Mark Schubin
On Saturday night, 2017 January 7, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences bestowed Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards on Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, the Institution of Engineering and […] More
Showtime Sports Puts Multicamera Undercard Bouts on Facebook Live
Written on January 9, 2017 at 11:53 am, by Troy Dreier, Contributor, Streaming & Digital
This is a great way to hype a fight: boxing fans were able to watch broadcast-quality multicam productions of two undercard fights on Facebook Live on Dec. 10, leading up […] More