At the last Olympics, NBC Sports began experimenting with Avid’s MediaCentral Platform. The concept allowed the network’s personnel to collaborate on projects without having to be on site.
After much discussion over the past year, Dish Network has joined the over-the top (OTT) fray by unveiling at the CES Show this week a new OTT service that, unlike others, includes sports outlets ESPN, TBS and TNT and will cost about $20 monthly for about a dozen TV channels.
Although there continues to be some debate about whether the industry as a whole will embrace a next-generation television broadcast standard, dubbed ATSC 3.0, due to a number of technical and financial hardship hurdles (for both broadcasters and the consumer), several live demonstrations of the proposed standard’s capabilities continue to b
