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.
It’s year three for NBC Sports and The Golf Channel at The Open Championship and the production teams continue to refine the production as well as its relationships. Topping the list this year is the reliance on NBC’s own NEWBERT remote flypack to allow for the Golf Channel studio production team to cut the shows […] More
The most newsworthy addition to the mix this year at The Open Championship is DirecTV’s request for UHD HDR coverage. DirecTV’s Open Experience mosaic channel includes a channel dedicated to holes 1 and 18. The decision was made to produce the coverage from those two holes in true UHD with HDR (for separate distribution apart […] More
The Open Championship continues to grow in both scale and scope for all involved. This year the number of cameras jumped from 175 to 198, the number of EVS replay servers climbed to 37, and it has even made some history with the first appearance of UHD and HDR golf coverage at an Open. “Last […] More
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships is an event steeped in traditions both on the courts and off. But, in an age when media distribution extends beyond linear TV, Alexandra Willis, head of communications, content, and digital, All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), and her team find themselves re-evaluating how to leverage those traditions in new ways […] More
NEP Group has acquired Big Picture in Australia and New Zealand, a leading supplier of video production and equipment for concert tours, music festivals, broadcast, corporate and special events. Big Picture is headquartered in Sydney with additional operations in Auckland and the deal strengthens NEP’s Live Events business and market standing by adding live entertainment […] More
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF tackled the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a small team of roughly 15 technical people located at the IBC in Moscow and working with a team of more than 300 back home in a temporary 3,000-sq.-meter facility at SWR in Baden-Baden that houses a studio, two production-control rooms, and […] More
NEP’s presence at the World Cup extends across a wide number of clients, and, at the IBC, Fox Sports U.S., Fox Sports Brazil, and Telemundo are relying on the remote-production–services provider as the backbone of their technical facilities. More
Wimbledon comes to an end this weekend, but, for those involved with ESPN’s tennis coverage, that will mean not a chance to take a breather but rather to keep the momentum going. The network will extend a streak that began on July 2 of tennis coverage appearing on at least one ESPN platform. More
IMG’s team of 50, including 20 full-time staffers, is once again on hand at Wimbledon overseeing production and distribution of the world feed, the Wimbledon Channel, the official 2018 film, and highlights. But there are some changes this year, most notably a state-of-the-art production facility and expanded RF capabilities for the Wimbledon Channel, enabling its […] More
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is the latest international global sports event where NHK’s 8K production team has a presence. Since the 2012 London Olympics, NHK has used events like the Olympics and World Cup as an opportunity to refine and improve a next-generation broadcast experience that will begin hitting consumer’s homes in December. The […] More
