Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.
Dachman oversees all aspects of SVG's North American editorial operations – including all news on sportsvideo.org, the daily SVG Insider newsletter, and SVG’s annual print publications – and is one of the primary contributors to SVG's coverage of the sports-video-production industry. A member of the SVG team since 2009, Dachman also serves as Program Director for SVG's Esports Production Forum, RSN Summit, Sports Content Management Forum, Sports Graphics Forum, and TranSPORT conference.
Prior to joining SVG, he covered local sports for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, and served on the production staff of SiriusXM's The Ron & Fez Show. Dachman began his career in the Sports Information department at Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a BA in Media Communications and Cinema Studies. A native of Denver, CO, Jason currently resides in Queens, NY, with his wife Alyson and daughter June.
Recent Posts by Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.
By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Friday, September 10, 2010 - 11:43 am
A new five-year deal between Ericsson and Australian national broadcaster the ABC will help provide free-to-air, high-quality, digital TV to rural Australians. Thanks to Ericsson’s latest satellite video-compression technology, the […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Friday, September 10, 2010 - 11:30 am
SVG’s third-annual Sports Venue Technology Summit, to be held November 10 at New Meadowlands Stadium, is quickly approaching. For attendees who wish to stay at the Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel, SVG […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Friday, September 10, 2010 - 10:52 am
Utah Scientific has been awarded a U.S. patent on its revolutionary UTAH-400 iP router, which gives broadcasters real-time, on-the-fly control of port priority, port speed, and security groups on Ethernet […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Friday, September 10, 2010 - 10:34 am
Ooyala Inc., a provider of video-platform applications and services, has raised more than $22 million in a round of financing from new and existing investors. “This financing will accelerate our […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Friday, September 10, 2010 - 10:14 am
Telestream, a provider of digital-media tools and workflow solutions, has completed acquisition of Anystream, a provider of enterprise-class video-production and -management solutions. Telestream’s video-transcoding and workflow-design and -automation expertise is […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 11:35 pm
When the Washington Redskins kick off the 2010 regular season against the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday, fans will be treated to a new stadium experience, thanks to a comprehensive HD […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Compix, a developer of professional character generators (CGs), has released ChannelBrander, a low-cost, broadcast-quality logo-branding and RSS crawl solution for the Cablecast TV-station-automation system from Tightrope Media Systems. ChannelBrander provides […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 10:31 pm
ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) and GlobeCast are partnering to deliver Airtel Champions League Twenty20 cricket from South Africa Sept. 10-26 . Asia’s No. 1 sports-content provider, ESPN STAR Sports will […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 10:06 pm
ATEME S.A., France-based provider of video compression, has released Titan Live, adding support of IP-to-IP live transcoding to the company’s Titan platform, and announced a partnership with Civolution to provide […]
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By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. | Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 8:20 pm
Omneon Inc. used the occasion of IBC 2010 in Amsterdam to make three announcements: the new ProXchange 1.6 grid-based transcode application adds support for the Apple ProRes 422 media format; […]
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