As Chief Editor, 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. A member of the SVG team since 2009, Dachman also serves as Program Director for SVG's Sports Content Management & Storage (SCMS) Forum, RSN Summit, Sports Graphics Forum, and TranSPORT event. Prior to joining SVG, he covered local sports for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, and served on the production staff of SiriusXM Satellite Radio'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.
Entering its second season as home to the Atlanta Braves, SunTrust Park – and The Battery Atlanta – have redefined the complete fan experience on game day. We talk with Scott Cunningham, VP, Fan Experience for the Braves to discuss how video and digital technologies play a critical role in a day at the new […] More
ESPN’s stable of networks garnered 54 nominations, when the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 39th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. ESPN’s 54 nods were the most of any network group, followed by CBS and Fox with 31 apiece and NBC Sports Group with 28. CBS’s 118th Army-Navy […] More
NFL Media will move to the new LA Stadium and Entertainment District (The District) at Hollywood Park in the summer of 2021, Los Angeles Rams owner/Chairman Stan Kroenke and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced today. The NFL will develop a 200,000-sq.-ft. space for headquarter operations housing hundreds of employees at NFL Network, NFL.com, the NFL app, and NFL RedZone. […] More
Augusta National will become the latest golf course to get the live 4K HDR treatment, with AT&T’s DirecTV delivering The 2018 Masters next month in the next-gen format for the first time. DirecTV will team with CBS Sports, which will once again also handle the primary HD coverage, to produce and deliver live 4K HDR […] More
Although augmented reality is nothing new to sports production — the 1st & Ten line celebrates its 20th anniversary this year — AR has taken a giant leap in the past three years and is dramatically changing the way stories are told, both on the field and in the studio. More
In venues ranging from massive pro-sports stadiums to mid-level college campuses, the role of the control room has expanded well beyond serving a single videoboard. In many cases, these control rooms have become broadcast centers, serving not only the videoboards on game day but also the needs of digital- and social-content creation, linear conference networks, studio […] More
Like many areas in the sports video production industry, graphics design is a division ripe for new faces and fresh ideas. With a diverse staff and unique, forward-thinking sports properties like the NBA and ELEAGUE, Turner Sports is no stranger to taking the lead on innovation. At the 2018 SVG Sports Graphics Forum, we caught […] More
Major League Soccer has inked a three-year deal with Twitter for a slate of weekly programming including weekly live matches, highlights and features. At least 25 matches per season that are broadcast on Univision networks in Spanish will now be available in English on Twitter. The deal marks MLS’s departure from Facebook, which streamed weekly […] More
Sports video graphics designers are faced with the challenge of creating elements that are not only appealing and informative, but adaptable to all screen sizes and scalable for use over a mass of live events throughout the course of a season. At the 2018 Sports Graphics Forum in New York City, we caught up with […] More
With teams dishing out $20 million apiece to join and Twitch inking a two-year, $90 million streaming rights deal, Blizzard Entertainment doesn’t just believe Overwatch League can be among the elite esports properties in the world – it believes it can be among the elite sports properties of any kind. In order to be a […] More
