Major League Baseball has implemented instant-replay in order to resolve disputed home-run calls -- deciding whether a home-run ball is fair or foul, whether it has left the playing field, or whether it has been subject to fan interference. The decision to use instant replay will be made by the umpire crew chief at each game.

At CBS Sports, this season’s NFL football coverage will mark the last in the transition to end-to-end HD. According to Ken Aagaard, EVP of Engineering, Operations and Production Services, the network may be able to deliver all HD, all the time -- if the cards fall right. Regardless, this is the opportunity to work out the remaining kinks to make sure that everything is in place to make that happen in the 2009 season.

Viewers of CBS’ weekend coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament will get a unique perspective on the action through Orad’s MVP (Motion Video Play) system. The system’s Flow Motion feature tracks a player through play of a point.

When ESPNU began promoting its slate of college-football games, it deployed a new graphics package created by New York production house Blue Room. The package will be used to tout all of ESPNU’s coverage throughout the season.

CBS coverage of NFL and college football games this season will involve greater use of virtual graphics across the spectrum of all the games.

Venue news this week ranged from breakdowns in Bejing to startups in Baltimore, Louisville and London. Here are some snapshots from this week's top arena, stadium and venue news.

Qualcomm, a wireless chip maker, and CTIA, the wireless industry's lobbying association in Washington, are calling for empty television channels, known as white spaces, to be auctioned off and licensed. According to the Washington Post, Qualcomm said licensing the airwaves will ensure wider coverage and protection from interference, and auctioning the spectrum would raise money for the government as well.

Multichannel News reports that Comcast will cap Internet usage of its broadband subscribers at 250 Gigabytes per month—a very large amount of data, the equivalent of 62,500 digital songs—starting Oct. 1. The operator Thursday posted an amendment to its terms of its "acceptable use policy" on Comcast.net, outlining the new guidelines.

Miranda Technologies has collaborated with NVISION, Pro-Bel and Utah Scientific to create a new interconnection standard between multi-viewers and routers.

Liberty HD is a new from the ground up, two-truck mobile television production unit featuring a double expando "A" unit, and a "B" unit with an expanding side. The truck is rolling to Atlanta, GA for its first show this weekend, ESPN/ABC Saturday night college football.

To enrich the viewing experience of on-site and on-line Buffalo Bills fans, the NFL franchise recently purchased Panasonic P2 HD production equipment to shoot game-day features that will be shown on the team’s 82’ by 35’ in-stadium HD video display. The same programming will be carried on the team’s closed-circuit cable network that airs in the facility’s suites and club areas.

As college football season kicks off, BlueArc Corporation has announced that the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) has expanded the use of its BlueArc Titan storage solution housed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to bring even more teams fast access to dozens of terabytes of game footage. In the 2008-2009 season, all of the Pac-10 football, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball teams will take advantage of Titan’s world-record-holding storage performance and capacity to access opponents’ video for competitive analysis.

Digital Transport Agnostic Gateway Solutions, a remote transmissions provider has a new address in Bixby OK.

In less than eight weeks, California-based Circle Take Media traveled throughout the U.S.,Canada, and the UK to interview 13 Olympic athletes for Johnson & Johnson’s “Thanks, Mom” campaign, shooting with JVC’s GY-HD250 Pro HD cameras. In the campaign, Olympians express gratitude to their mothers for all the love and support they’ve been given.

ALFACAM, the leading European HDTV provider, and EURO1080, a member of the ALFACAM Group, installed Vizrt graphics software solution in ALFACAM’s and EURO1080 HDTV OB vans for coverage of the Summer Games.

Calrec Audio has announced that Token Creek Mobile Television is installing a 56-fader Calrec Omega console in its Hiawatha OB truck, which is being upgraded to all-HD operation. Hiawatha's sister truck, Varsity, already carries a Calrec Sigma with Bluefin console, which was purchased in 2007.

ESPNRISE.com, the news, information and community resource for high school athletes, launches August 26. The site represents the confluence of multiple acquisitions and initiatives by ESPN over the past 18 months. ESPNRISE.com will be a complete source for national high school sports and lifestyle coverage, as well as a community connecting 14- to 18-year-old athletes to each other, their sports passions and friends and families. The launch is the latest step in ESPN’s multiplatform commitment to highlighting and celebrating high school sports.

As millions of viewers tuned in for this year’s EURO 2008 European football tournament, German broadcast station ZDF, along with Aviom, was there to help bring the excitement of each game to television viewers. The competition of 16 national teams is sponsored by the Union of European Football Associations and is the second largest sports event in the world in terms of viewing figures. The last UEFA European Championship attracted more than 153 million live viewers for each of its 31 matches and a total of 7.9 billion television viewers.

Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, the home for the San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, San Jose Sharks, San Jose SaberCats, and San Jose Earthquakes, says that Devon Fox has been promoted to director of production/live events.

According to Multichannel News, Dish Network, the satellite TV provider, is telling the Federal Communications Commission that large cash demands by TV stations could lead to carriage disputes early next year on the eve of the transition to all-digital broadcasting.

The International Herald Tribune reports that next season, advertisements at soccer stadiums may depend on where you watch the game -- viewers in China could catch an ad for a Beijing car dealership superimposed on Manchester United's Old Trafford ground. Finnish software startup Supponor has won a new round of financing for technology that could open new avenues like these in the $25 billion sports advertising market.

Gary Adcock, a pioneer in advanced HD post-production workflows and founder of consulting firm Studio 37, has incorporated the Sonnet Fusion R400Q rackmount four-drive SATA storage system into a mobile solution that supports flexible, secure storage of all digital content within a tapeless production environment. Designed in cooperation with Fletcher Chicago, the Fletcher Digital Management System (DMS) provides users with a convenient and reliable means of storing and backing up content while on set for commercial production and feature film projects.

The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Raycom Media Inc. on Thursday because the company hasn't yet sold its Richmond, Va., CBS affiliate following the company's acquisition of the NBC affiliate in that market.

Tianjin TV, one of China's leading independent broadcasters, equipped its Outside Broadcast vans for their Olympic coverage with Vision Head and Tripod systems and Pro-Ped Pedestals from Vinten, a Vitec Group brand.

ESPN360.com, the broadband sports television network from ESPN, has reached a new, expanded agreement to bring U.S. soccer fans another of the world’s top International soccer competitions – Italy’s Serie A (aka Serie A TIM). ESPN360.com will deliver eight matches per week, as many as 300 matches per season, over the next two seasons. ESPN360.com and MP & Silva LLC announced the agreement that provides exclusive U.S. broadband rights and expands upon a deal last season that brought Serie A matches to ESPN360.com for the first time.

The total number of U.S. television households for the 2008-2009 TV season has grown to 114.5 million — up 1.5% from last year, Nielsen reported this week.

There wasn't instant replay until Tony Verna, as a director early in his long CBS Sports career, debuted it on the 1963 Army-Navy game. Now, Verna has another idea: so-called talking replays.

CBS Corp. is launching a new version of its CNET.com Web site this week -- providing one of the first glimpses at how the New York media giant hopes to integrate CNET Networks, the suite of Web properties it purchased for $1.8 billion in June.

ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD this weekend will serve up 10 hours of drag racing action from the NHRA’s Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, network officials said this week.