Ken Kerschbaumer has been editorial director of the Sports Video Group since 2005 and has been writing about how sports networks and leagues use video and audio technology to deliver a quality TV experience since 1991. He began his career in 1991 at Television Broadcast magazine before joining Cahners where he was editor of Digital Broadcasting magazine. In 2000 he joined Broadcasting & Cable magazine as Senior Editor of Technology. Seven years later he helped co-found the Sports Video Group with Paul Gallo and Marty Porter.
SVG is profiling this year’s 11 Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductees in the weeks leading up to the ceremony on Dec. 11 at the New York Hilton. For more information, CLICK HERE. Gene Mikell will enter the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame not just as an octogenarian but as an octogenarian who still spends […] More
In esports productions, the sheer scale of events played in far-flung locations poses big challenges for the production teams. The biggest is figuring out whether connectivity will allow an at-home production, whether those circuits are reliable, and whether the scale of the show is suitable for at-home production. That topic was the subject of a […] More
ESPN got its hands on the new Canon UHD-DIGISUPER 122 (UJ122x8.2B) lens for this past Saturday’s ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime matchup between the University of Michigan and Penn State. The production team had a chance to try it out at two locations — a main game camera and the low–end-zone camera — on the […] More
SVG is profiling this year’s 11 Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductees in the weeks leading up to the ceremony on Dec. 11 at the New York Hilton. For more information, CLICK HERE. When your broadcasting career includes producing the first Super Bowl, launching The NFL Today for CBS, and then jumping aboard ESPN in […] More
In an age of data overload — often big-data overload — the ever-increasing challenge is to take that mass of data, understand it, and apply it to create valuable content. And, more critically, how can you take an existing archive or managed assets and get a better understanding of what you have and what it means to […] More
Steve McKeown, longtime technical manager for NBC Sports and CBS Sports and better known as “Stevie Mac,” died on Oct. 22 at the age of 80. He had spent 25 years at NBC Sports and 21 years at CBS Sports. He is survived by his wife, Laurie (whom he was married to for 44 years); […] More
The NBA on TNT’s season is in its second week, and already some tweaks are making a difference, as the production teams on both the game-production and the studio sides (and even the social-media side) continue to enlighten and entertain fans in new ways. More
YES Network has spent much of 2018 creating new graphics for its coverage of the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets, the latest efforts debuting at last week’s 2018-19 NBA season tipoff. Given that the previous Nets package had been created in 2012, it was time for a new look and feel. More
The Vendor Perspectives panel at SVG’s annual TranSPORT event always provides an opportunity to see what is top of mind for professionals working to meet the signal-transport needs of sports-content creators and distributors. Today, they are under more pressure than ever to meet next-generation needs while ensuring that expanding client needs are met, often without […] More
With the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers set to square off in the 2018 World Series, the table is set for great ratings across the entire country, given the storied history of both franchises (the last time they met in the World Series was 1916, when Babe Ruth threw 13 scoreless innings in […] More
