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Byline: Scott Pitoniak The story sounds apocryphal, but a good friend who covered the Philadelphia Eagles back in the day swears on a stack of bibles that it's true. The [...]

WITH EGYPT, THE 2010 winners, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa and Algeria--all aristocrats of the African game--failing to qualify for next years finals, the continental game will certainly wear an unknown [...]

ODDS ARE PRETTY GOOD THE XFL WILL BE A HIT, THANKS TO THE MARKETING MUSCLE OF WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION BEHEMOTH VINCE MCMAHON AND HIS STRATEGIC PARTNERS TO CREATE THE desired […]

Byline: will leitch i was 12 years old when my beloved St. Louis football Cardinals, of Jim Hart and Dan Dierdorf and Roy Green and Big Red training camp in [...]

They make an odd pair, the Premiership and the khat plant, and yet the two have a similar impact in the Horn of Africa. The televised matches of the English [...]

THE ARKANSAS TWISTERS aren't winning many football games this season, but the five-year-old Arena Football League 2 team might be winning the marketing game. Despite a 2-12 record with two [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES Two studios offered smaller films aimed at audiences considered the least likely to be interested in the football game. To view this article at nytimes.com, click here: [...]

The number of people tuning in to BT Sport's first live English Premier League football game, compared with Sky's first audience of 3.1m. BT's much-heralded challenge to Sky also suffered [...]

Betfair is to sponsor Europa League football on ESPN, which has also signed major deals with Land Rover and Amlin, the insurer, to back its rugby coverage. The Betfair sponsorship [...]

ITV is set to bid for the pounds 100 million contract to produce BT Vision's Premier League football coverage. However, the broadcaster has denied reports that it is interested in [...]

Does the TV market overheat during tournaments, Alasdair Reid asks. No-one is suggesting that TV traders bear grudges or anything - but buyers have never really forgotten the orgy of [...]

BSkyB has retained the majority of the rights to broadcast live coverage of the Barclays Premier League, while BT beat ESPN to the final two packages, netting the league pounds [...]

Byline: Philip Hunter The share price of both BSkyB and BT fell as news emerged last week that they were the two successful bidders for English Premier League (EPL) football [...]

Live coverage and national telecast of high school football and basketball games are not advisable as they do not conform to the principles of inter-scholastic sport. The televising of such athletic activity is targeted toward public entertainment, and thus compromises the integrity of school programs. Broadcasting has led to more coverage of boys' sports than to girls'., THE MHSAA HAS no objections to statewide tournament telecasts and tapedelayed telecasts during the regular season, but it objected to the plan (since discontinued) for live, nationally televised high school [...]

Blue Ridge Communications (BRC), a regional cable television, Internet and VoIP provider serving Pennsylvania, provided a mobile video unit, crew and HD cameras from Hitachi to PNC Bank for its [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli ESPN is optimistic that the broadcasting of live sports events in 3-D is the future and continues to support its fledgling channel. Representatives for the networkas 3-D [...]

Will foreign satellite football make UK sport advertising less attractive? If the European Court of Justice rules that blocking overseas satellite feeds of matches to venues in the UK breaches [...]

FOR-A recently sold two new FRC-7000 HD frame-rate converters to TV2GO, an international satellite transmission and video production company that converts NFL games from NTSC to PAL for live broadcast. [...]

From The Chicago Tribune: A 20-year-old student was killed on the University of Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., when a lift used for filming the school's football practice [...]

The days of using football field horns with a simple driver and limited frequency response are over for Hatboro-Horsham High School, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The school is [...]

by Mike Reynolds Although it hasn't reached deals with a number of key distribution holdouts, last week was a very good one for NFL Network. The National Football League-owned channel, [...]

By Michael Malone Reporters learn what NFL defenders have long known--Michael Vick is hard to catch The NFL season may not start for another few weeks, but newsrooms in Philadelphia [...]

IsraelCOs Sport 5 TV channel used a Polecam to provide live coverage of the recent international football match between Israel and Hungary at Ramat Gan National Stadium in Tel Aviv. [...]

Mobile TV content continues to go beyond 'me too' TV, exploiting the capabilities of online and mobile platforms. The jury may be out on the Palm Pre, but clearly Sprint [...]

Onside TV Production, the production arm of the Allsvenskan Swedish Football League, will soon rely on Broadcast Pix Slate integrated production systems to produce daily HD news conferences for each [...]

FLO TV purveyor QUALCOMM will offer 20 channels of TV for $15 a month Co about half of the $25 to $30 that FLO TVCOs current carriers charge for the [...]

Will the US broadcaster succeed where Setanta failed, Alasdair Reid asks. So, farewell then, Setanta; but a big hello to ESPN. Last week, the US broadcaster stepped in to pay [...]

BSkyB has extended the number of live games that it can show in a season to 115, while Setanta has dropped from 46 to 23 after the auction for the [...]

NBC televised Super Bowl XLIII, Feb. 1, from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL, in the 1080i HD for the NFL world feed using a Thomson Grass Valley Kalypso HD [...]