The Sports Video Group (SVG) and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 SVG College Sports Media Awards in association with NACDA (CSMAs). More
As U.S. sports make a gradual comeback from the depths of the coronavirus, motorsports is leading the return to live event production. Along with MotoAmerica Superbike, NBC Sports’ presentation of Monster Energy AMA Supercross returned this past Sunday in Salt Lake City’s Rice-Eccles Stadium. For Feld Entertainment, the network’s production partner, putting on a great […] More
Denis Genevois and Olivier Zankel are moving into new marketing roles at Globecast. Genevois, who joined Globecast in 2001, is now VP Marketing Group and Zankel, who joined Globecast in 2011, is now VP Communications Group. They will both report to Philippe Bernard, CEO, Globecast, with the two also now sitting on the Executive Committee. […] More
IBM has officially joined the Active Archive Alliance, which promotes modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. IBM joins a growing number of storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management. More
Sports OTT Forum – Opening remarks In case you missed any of the Sports OTT Forum, we have pulled all of the content together in one place for you to enjoy. To open proceedings, we hear from Alessandro Reitano, Sky Germany’s Director of Sports Production and the chair of the SVG Europe advisory board, on […] More
Motorsport Network is signing a two-year stats and results feed agreement with Tencent, via its Motorsport Stats business. The agreement covers the current season, historical results, and additional data for 11 different series. The widest and deepest motorsport dataset available will be made accessible to Tencent Sport users, across all touchpoints: website, apps, social media, […] More
SMPTE has introduced a series of revisions to the SMPTE Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standards documents (SMPTE ST 2067) to ensure compliant implementation, bring additional features to the IMF system, address conflicts among various provisions, and improve consistency for end users. The revisions address results from IMF Plugfests, as well as feedback from implementers and […] More
Grass Valley has announced the launch of GVX, a council of customers selected from the media industry’s most influential technologists and business leaders. This group of key leaders will work closely with Grass Valley executives to move media technology innovation forward in a mutually beneficial fashion, providing the industry with solutions that are perfectly matched […] More
WWE has unveiled the Free Version of WWE Network, unlocking a vast portion of its content library with more than 15,000 action-packed WWE titles now available for free. More
Jeff Krolik, longstanding President of the Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) now owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, announced his retirement, effective August 30. Krolik, 63, managed the RSNs for nearly 15 years, and led the group during the sale from Fox to Disney and the subsequent sale from Disney to Sinclair. More
