Syracuse University Athletics and IMG are extending their partnership with a long-term agreement for multimedia rights and licensing. Syracuse Director of Athletics John Wildhack and IMG College President Tim Pernetti announced the multi-year contract extension that will maintain and enhance the relationship IMG College has as the exclusive multimedia rights and licensing partner of Syracuse […] More
ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference announced that The ACC Network will launch on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Just one week later, on August 29, the first conference football game will kick off on the new all-ACC platform when Georgia Tech visits Clemson for a Thursday night contest. The 24/7 network is poised to air […] More
Fox Sports is broadcasting two of the five major college football conference championships this weekend: the Pac-12 Championship on Friday and the Big Ten Championship on Saturday. Although the Ohio State-Northwestern and Washington-Utah matchups have storylines on the field, there are plenty of moving parts behind the scenes. Similar to the players’ goal to exceed […] More
The University of Cincinnati’s Fifth Third Arena, home to the Bearcats’ basketball and volleyball teams, went through a massive overhaul in March 2017 with extensive changes to seating, amenities, and overall look. The biggest change was installation of Daktronics videoboards, including a centerhung system that reaches from one three-point line to the other. More
Spectra Logic announced that the Brooks Lab at the University of Michigan has deployed a Spectra T680 Tape Library and Spectra Verde Disk Solution to archive research data. Brooks Lab, a theoretical chemistry lab at one of the top public research institutions in the United States, has relied solely on Spectra’s enterprise tape and disk […] More
BeckTV served as the systems integrator for the control room build at the new University of Louisville (UofL) Athletics Broadcast Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The 7,850-square-foot television production facility, which opened its doors in September, is designed to house all of the equipment and personnel necessary to originate live programming for the comprehensive linear and […] More
The Pac-12 Conference has extended its strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services, going all-in on the cloud, machine learning, and media workloads. Pac-12 leverages AWS’s services for a wide variety of production use cases, including its website, mobile applications, and Pac-12 Networks, to transform the collegiate sports experience for its millions of fans. More
It’s a special week on The SVG Podcast: ESports Week! All week long, we will dedicate daily episodes to discussions around the exciting technology and storytelling present and future of the exploding world of esports. Today, we have a roundtable discussion of experts to share with you their takes on how to care for amateur […] More
Over the past couple of years, member institutions of the Atlantic Coast Conference have been preparing in a big way for this summer’s launch of the ACC Network. In partnership with ESPN, the conference is constructing impressive video production facilities up and down the east coast with Duke University bing one of the first to […] More
ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, is adding a new bowl game to its roster beginning in 2020 with the creation of the Myrtle Beach Bowl. The game will feature matchups from three conference partners – Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference (MAC), and the Sun Belt Conference. Each conference will participate up to four times […] More
