Archive for the 'Sports' Category


Sky Race In To Buy F1 Racing TV Rights

Sky Sports and the BBC have revealed that they are now co-broadcasters of Formula 1 in the UK, with the new big-money arrangement beginning as of next year and contracted to run through to 2018. The rights deal sees the BBC’s exclusive contract, which had been in place since 2009 end at the end of the current year, [...]

YouTube Plan Live South American Fiesta

For football fans around the world, an upcoming date for many people’s diaries will be 1 July, when the 2011 Copa America kicks off in Argentina, and the hosts face Boliva. The tournament is a quadrennial event that brings together the 10 South American football nations (along with 2 invited guest nations, which this year are Mexico and [...]

Fusion 3D Captures All NBA Finals Games In Two Cities

CAMERON – PACE Group’s FUSION 3D Systems Captured The NBA Finals, Miami Heat vs. Dallas Mavericks in Two US Cities – Dallas and Miami BURBANK, CA June 13, 2011 – Emmy Award-winning CAMERON – PACE Group (CPG) announces their FUSION 3D systems captured all NBA Finals Miami Heat vs. Dallas Mavericks games in Dallas, Texas [...]

BBC Go For Game, Set, And Third Dimension

The curse of the commentator seems to have struck here, as less than a day after this website made suggestions that the BBC were not doing much for the advancement of 3DTV in the UK, the long-serving public broadcaster have announced their very first 3D broadcast. Today saw the announcement by the BBC that has confirmed plans to make [...]

CBC Face Hard Hitting Reality For NHL 3D

3D broadcasting has come a long way in the past year, and this is particularly relevant for live sports, but it seems as though the NHL (the biggest league in the world for ice hockey) is not yet on board, despite testing the format three times earlier in the season. The general response to these trials, which occured in [...]

Pengiuns Throw Down On Roots For 18 Years

NHL franchise the Pittsburgh Penguins have put pen to paper on a deal which will see local broadcaster Roots Sports(owned by DirecTV) cover the team’sgames for the next 18 years, in what is one of the longest pre-arranged rights deal in sports broadcasting history. Roots Sports Network (RSN) covers over 2.4 million homes across the US states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, [...]