NewTek’s TriCaster STUDIO
Assists in Production of Live
Pre-Game and Post-Game Major
League Baseball Playoff Web
Casts on both FOXSports.com on
MSN and MLB.com
San Antonio, Texas
(October 16, 2007)
NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of
industry-leading video and 3D
animation products, announced
today that its TriCaster STUDIO
portable live production suite
will be used by FOXSports.com
and MLB.com to conduct their
recently-announced live Web
casts of pre-game and post-game
shows for Major League
Baseball’s World Series and
American League Championship
Series. The half-hour Web casts,
featuring FOX Sports' Chris
Myers, Harold Reynolds of
MLB.com and Ken Rosenthal of
FOXSports.com, will be available
on FOXSports.com on MSN and
MLB.com before and after the
televised pre- and post-game
coverage of each contest. A
complete schedule of streamed
events is listed below.
“We had great success at the
MLB All-Star Game earlier this
year, and will once again offer
fans a well-produced television
show on the Internet, including
interviews, features and
insights into each crucial game
of the ALCS and World Series,”
said Clark Pierce, VP, Graphics
& Special Projects, FOX Sports.
“Fox Sports is always looking
for ways to add value to our
broadcasts for viewers, and the
TriCaster STUDIO delivers
exciting possibilities for
extending our coverage to the
Web with a broadcast look and
feel.”
TriCaster enables sports
organizations, corporate
communications departments,
broadcasters, schools and others
to provide a whole new level of
extended programming and content
to their fans, partners and
other audiences. Now, a single
operator can produce a live show
switching between as many as six
cameras with two VCR’s,
multi-channel effects, and
NewTek’s proprietary virtual
sets and keying technology using
TriCaster.
“It’s truly exciting to be
part of the premier event of
America’s Pastime,” said Philip
Nelson, NewTek’s Senior Vice
President, Strategic
Development. “TriCaster makes it
possible for FOX to engage MLB
fans with interesting new
content and increase online
advertising revenue.”
The Major League Baseball
American League Championship
Series and World Series live Web
cast coverage produced with
TriCaster STUDIO will include
game highlights, player
interviews and analysis, and
will also be archived for
on-demand viewing via
FOXSports.com and MLB.com.
Pricing and
Availability
The TriCaster family of products
in NTSC is available in North
America starting at $4,995US.
The TriCaster family of products
is available in dual standard
internationally beginning at
$6,995US. For more information,
please visit http://www.newtek.com
or call NewTek Sales at
1-800-368-5441, international
callers dial +1-210-370-8000.
About NewTek
With headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas, NewTek is an
Emmy® Award-winning and leading
provider of full-featured video
editing, live production,
presentation, animation and
special effects tools including
TriCaster™, TriCaster PRO™,
TriCaster STUDIO™, VT[4]™,
SpeedEDIT™,
3D Arsenal™, and LightWave 3D®.
About FOXSports.com
on MSN
FOXSports.com on MSN is a
leading sports Web site that
delivers breaking news,
real-time stats and fantasy
games to more than 15 million
unique visitors every month.
FOXSports.com, a unit of Fox
Interactive Media, is the
exclusive provider of sports
content for MSN in the US and it
is the online extension of FOX
Sports television coverage.
Located at
http://msn.foxsports.com/,
the site provides sports fans
with a wealth of exclusive
online video, and is the
industry leader in the delivery
of sports content to mobile
devices via its Fox Sports
Mobile products.
About FOX Sports
As America’s top-rated network
for sports for the 10th-straight
year (1997-2006), FOX Sports
boasts rights agreements with
each of the nation’s
highest-rated sports. FOX Sports
is the exclusive national
over-the-air television rights
holder of Major League Baseball,
including the All-Star Game,
alternating League Championship
Series and World Series
(2007-2013); the National
Football League’s NFC package,
including the NFC Championship
Game and Super Bowls XLII and
XLV (2006-2011); NASCAR’s NEXTEL
Cup racing from February through
May, including the Daytona 500
(2007-2014); the Bowl
Championship Series, featuring
the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, FedEx
Orange Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl
from 2007 through 2010 and the
new BCS National Championship
Game from 2007 through 2009; and
the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic.
Since its inception in 1994, FOX
Sports has earned 71 Emmy Awards
for production excellence. David
Hill and Ed Goren are the
Executive Producers of FOX
Sports.
About MLB.com
Established in June 2000
following a unanimous vote by
the 30 Major League Baseball
club owners to centralize all of
Baseball's Internet operations,
MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is
the interactive media and
Internet company of Major League
Baseball. MLBAM manages the
official league site,
www.MLB.com, and each of the 30
individual Club sites to create
the most comprehensive Major
League Baseball resource on the
Internet. MLB.com offers fans
the most complete baseball
information on the web,
including up-to-date statistics,
game summaries, extensive
historical information, and
exclusive features about Major
League Baseball events and
programs, including on-line
ticket sales, baseball
merchandise, authenticated
memorabilia and collectibles,
fantasy games, live and archived
radio broadcasts of every game,
live and archived video webcasts
of entire games, pitch-by-pitch
enactment of games, and hosted
post-game video highlight shows.
MLB.com offers more live events
on the Internet than any other
website in the world. |
