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But it all starts with a spotter at center court and a technician in a van outside the arena -- both of whom are SportsMedia employees. Incorporated in 1990 by founder and President Gerard J. Hall, a Harvard University graduate, the 65-employee company is in the business of making televised sports more entertaining and more informative. Its data and graphics products include "augmented reality," such as inserting a yellow line on a football field to show the first-down mark.

With this data, with this information, you have to be very accurate and very fast   -Harold Bryant

 

Live coverage of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament can now be enjoyed through the privacy of online on-demand video or the spectacle of 3-D movie theaters. Tech Beat reporter Adam Balkin filed the following report. There are now many ways for fans to follow the National Collegiate Athletic Association March Madness basketball tournament when they are away from the living room or favorite water hole.

The ESPN broadcast will be what ESPN has. That's for the opening round, so basically Thursday and Friday   -Brent Clark

 

A top of the table Barclays Premier League clash is to launch Europe's first 3D channel. BSkyB's Sky 3D will show the match between Manchester United and Chelsea on Saturday, April 3. Following the channel's launch, Sky will show at least another five premier league games - to be announced - before the end of the current season.

It's fitting that one of the biggest games of the season will be the launch pad for our pioneering Sky 3D service   -Brian Lenz

 

Follow United's Barclays Premier League clash with Liverpool live on ManUtd.com this Sunday, 21 March (kick-off 13:30 GMT). United team TBC at 13:00 Sunday . Nick Coppack is providing live text updates on the game's key events in Match Tracker , and you can interact with him on our Talking Reds message board.  

ESPN baseball analyst Buck Showalter, a Century High graduate and former Major League manager, will be a guest at 11 a.m. today on the Saturday Sports Blitz on NewsRadio 1620 AM with host Paul Chestnutt and PNJ sports editor Bill Vilona. Showalter will provide insight on the upcoming MLB season. He will be in Pensacola on Monday for the Pensacola Pelicans' Hot Stove Banquet at the Sanders Beach Center.  

DEERFIELD, Ill.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Second graph, first sentence of release should read: The Next Round, which launches Saturday, April 3... (sted The Next Round, which launches Sunday, April 4...). The corrected release reads: Bourbon, the world's number one selling Bourbon, is proud to announce an innovative venture with ESPN to launch The Next Round – Served Up By Jim Beam, a Web series hosted by ESPN personality and award-winning journalist Scoop Jackson and featuring famous guests discussing the

This far-reaching media integration is a first of its kind for Jim Beam   -Kelly Doss

 

ESPN3D has added the State Farm Home Run Derby to its lineup of enhanced telecasts. The home run contest is slated for July 12 at 8 p.m., and will be played at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, the day before Major League Baseball will stage its All-Star Game in Orange County. Fox and DirecTV already announced that they would be producing and televising the All-Star Game itself in 3D.

It's fitting that we launch ESPN 3D's domestic programming from Angel Stadium of Anaheim, which was the site for the launch of ESPN HD back on March 30, 2003   -Bryan Burns

 

The government received a weighty document yesterday explaining why all English cricket should remain on satellite television. The dossier ran to hundreds of pages and essentially concluded there were 137 million reasons. That is the amount in pounds sterling that independent financial consultants are believed to have calculated will be lost to the England and Wales Cricket Board if the Ashes series is forcibly moved to free-to-air television, specifically the BBC.  

Expectations for soaring TV ratings have never been higher for the Masters, but there's a possibility that Tiger Woods' return to golf won't be aired live. Or in its entirety. Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News points out ESPN will be on the air for 3 1/2 hours broadcasting the first two rounds April 8-9 and that window isn't guaranteed to overlap with Woods' time on the course.