NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Sports Video Group (SVG) has announced the first digital media production event for sports professionals, D-Sports, October 24, 2007, in New York City. The conference is a platform for leading sports broadband and mobile video professionals to share their insights and experiences on the latest techniques, trends, and technologies for non-traditional content delivery systems.
"The broadband sports landscape is exploding with new technologies and companies that provide sports content owners with more and more ways to reach sports fans -- anywhere and anytime," says Conference Chairman and SVG Board Member David Catzel. "This conference will go beyond the theoretical 'what if', to explore practical and proven processes that will allow sports content holders to enhance the fan experience and develop marketable new products on new platforms for consumers."
The conference, which is co-located with the NY Post Production Conference at the AMC Theaters on 34th Street, will feature a keynote address by Perkins Miller, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics Senior Vice President, Digital Media, who will provide an exclusive preview of the network's non-broadcast plans for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In addition, the program has assembled a blue-ribbon list of panelists and moderators from leading companies including ESPN.com, Yahoo, YouTube, Sprint, Sony, Fox Sports, CBSSports.com and the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB to discuss how broadband sports is being created, produced and distributed.
The one-day conference will include the following sessions:
-- D-Sports Production: Shooting For the Small Screen
-- Need for Speed: Editing for Broadband and Mobile Video
Distribution
-- The CDN Value Proposition: Finding The Perfect Fit
-- User-Generated Content: The Power of the Fan
-- New Media, New Money: Growing Fans, Growing Revenues
-- Three-Screen Sports 2017: Through the Looking Glass
For program and registration details visit www.sportsvideo.org/portal/dsports. Registration discounts are available to SVG members and sponsors.
Sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Rob Payne at rob@sportsvideo.org or by calling: 212-481-8131.
The Sports Video Group was formed in 2006 to support the professional community that relies on video, audio, and broadband technologies to produce and distribute sports content. Leagues, owners, teams, players, broadcasters, digital media, and consumer technology providers have joined the SVG to learn from each other, turn vision into reality, implement new innovations, while sharing experiences that will lead to advancements in the sports production/distribution process and the overall consumer sports experience.