Recent Posts by Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, August 13, 2018 - 15:30
CBS and Turner Sports have again rolled out a gargantuan onsite operation for the PGA Championship, involving 20 mobile units, 110 cameras, 175 microphones and more than 40 miles of […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 14:38
Viacom-owned MMA promoter Bellator has inked a multi-year global distribution agreement with Perform Group’s DAZN sports streaming service. The nine-figure global deal will see 22 Bellator fights streamed live and on-demand every year […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 15:52
Discovery Communications has landed the international TV and streaming rights for the PGA Tour with a newly announced 12-year, $2 billion deal that will begin in 2019. Discovery now holds the […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, May 28, 2018 - 15:15
Fox Sports and the Fox Innovation Lab will blaze the 5G trail next month at the 118th US Open Championship, partnering with Ericsson, Intel, and AT&T to stream 4K HDR video […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Friday, May 11, 2018 - 17:20
The debut of EN3 for ESPN on March 30 was historic: it’s the first truck in North America built around a SMPTE ST 2110 IP routing core. After a long […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, March 26, 2018 - 17:04
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 […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 17:33
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 […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 18:04
Last weekend’s NBA All-Star festivities in Los Angeles marked the launch of Turner Sports and Intel’s virtual reality production effort. The partnership, announced in November, tipped off last weekend with […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 10:46
For the first time, NBA All-Star Media Day is a worldwide event: the league is live-streaming its annual event to more than 180 countries. The NBA has teamed with NeuLion […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - 11:58
NBC Sports took its use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual graphics to a new level at Super Bowl LII with the debut of “volumetric-AR”, a technology that allows lifelike […]
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