Last weekend, as Tiger Woods rallied for a come-from-behind win at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, plenty of golf fans returned to their TV sets. This weekend, for golf’s final major of the season, CBS Sports will feed off that energy to produce a clean-cut broadcast of the 2009 PGA Championship — hopefully enhanced, once again, by the “Tiger Effect.”

All it took was 15 years and $1.15 billion for the Dallas Cowboys to have the newest arena in the NFL. And it is Texas-style big, seating 80,000 fans and expandable to 100,000 beneath the largest retractable dome in the world.

MLB fans who subscribe to MLB.TV can now deliver the games directly to their TV set thanks to a deal between Roku and MLB.com. With an MLB.TV Premium subscription and the Roku player, customers will be able to enjoy live, out-of-market baseball games in high definition quality where available as well as access to on-demand games from the past week.

Apple’s latest version of Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, offers an overhaul of the ProRes codec, delivering new versions that meet not only the high-end needs of the market but also the needs of those looking for a ProRes codec that allows faster, more efficient workflows.

Villa Park, home of Premier League club Aston Villa, has been dropped as one of the soccer venues for the London 2012 Olympics, organizers said this week. The club was “unable to commit fully to hosting matches” during the preliminary rounds of the competition as construction work was planned at the Birmingham-based stadium, the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) said in a statement. The venue, with a seating capacity of around 42,600, has previously staged soccer internationals and domestic FA Cup semifinals…

The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome our newest platinum sponsor, Microsoft. Silverlight, Microsoft’s popular browser plug-in, has been used to stream sporting events worldwide and, most recently, delivered front-of-the-pack online coverage of the Tour de France.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Shure has renewed its corporate sponsorship. Shure has been dedicated to helping customers tell the truth in notes, words, and sound since 1925, making microphones and audio electronics to help amplify, process, and mix sound.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that SES AMERICOM has renewed its premier sponsorship. SES AMERICOM is a provider of satellite communications solutions with an extensive portfolio of satellite, broadcast, broadband, and IP solutions.

Winston-Salem, NC-based live-event-production company Special Event Services added a high-performance HD-video package with six Panasonic native 1080i AK-HC3500 2/3-inch 2.2M 3-CCD HD cameras to its portfolio of video equipment.

Vizrt will debut the latest version of its channel-branding software, Viz Multichannel 2.5, during its invitation-only Amsterdam Sessions Sept. 10-15 at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam, Netherlands, concurrent with IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15.

Ross Video will use IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15 to debut its openGear 3-gigabit-per-second fiber-line solution, which offers a range of optical/electrical conversions up to 40 in 2-rack-unit mode.

Atsunori Abe, former general manager of Audio-Technica’s international department in Japan, died July 10. Abe also served on the company’s board of directors before his retirement in 2005.

ABC Television placed a major order for Ross Video openGear 3-gigabit-per-second-capable fiber interconnect, frames, distribution amplifiers, audio/video multiplexers, and demultiplexers (mux/demux) with Dashboard control and monitoring application for its new HD central switching center in New York.

SBS/ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s Netherlands division is upgrading its entire content-playout platform to handle and distribute HD content, and its new storage-area network will be based on Grass Valley K2 Summit server technology.

Orad introduced an online remote training center that provides Web-based flash interactive tutorials covering the main themes of each of its real-time 3D-broadcast-graphics solutions.

Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic and the National Football League’s Washington Redskins signed a multiyear extension of their exclusive media and marketing partnership, making the regional sports network the exclusive local Redskins HD provider for preseason games.

Turner Sports says its PGATOUR.com, PGA.com, and Yahoo! Sports golf site averaged 4.1 million unique users over the first six months of 2009, leading the online-golf arena each month and more than doubling its nearest competitor.

Comcast high-speed-Internet subscribers now have access to broadband network ESPN360.com at no additional cost following the service’s launch Monday.

Comcast boasted that its subscribers now have access to more than 5,000 live sporting events via its cable-television, broadband, and video-on-demand platforms.

Turner Sports has its golf bags packed for Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, MN, as it prepares for coverage of the PGA Championship on TNT and PGA.com Aug. 13-16.

Sky recently confirmed plans to launch the UK’s first ever 3D TV channel next year. This announcement came in the wake of burgeoning consumer demand for the Sky+ high definition service, which has more than doubled its subscribers to 1.313m over the past year. Digital Spy caught up with Sky’s director of strategic product design Gerry O’Sullivan to find out more about the company’s plans for a 3D future.

TV One will bring its full range of LCD monitors to IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15, adding that the monitors are available in a wide variety of screen sizes and configurations.

Cablevision Systems wants you to join the varsity: MSG Varsity, its upcoming high-school-sports network serving the New York metro area, reports Todd Spangler of Multichannel News.

Not all Major League Baseball performance-enhancing-drugs stories are created equal, as Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News points out that ESPN’s treatment of Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz pales in comparison to how the cable sports network handled the news of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez testing positive for PEDs.

National Football League quarterback Michael Vick will sit down with CBS Sports The NFL Today anchor James Brown for an exclusive interview that will air on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Chris Ariens reported on TVNewser.

ESPN Deportes will launch its first SportsCenter campaign, featuring soccer star Lionel Messi, Mexican professional boxer Juan Manuel Márquez, professional soccer goalkeeper Oscar “El Conejo” Pérez, Colombian actor Andrés Palacio, and Mexican rock band Molotov, among others, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

Telemundo’s English-language, Hispanic-targeted mun2 is eyeing a ratings kick from its exclusive English-language U.S. presentation of the World Cup soccer qualifier match between the United States and Mexico Wednesday, James Young of Variety reports.

“They had a Hall of Fame induction Saturday night and the Academy Awards broke out,” Reid Cherner of USA Today wrote on the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which aired on ESPN Sunday.

Mid-Atlantic Sports Network’s carriage dispute against Comcast may be thwarted by an unlikely source: niche cable network WealthTV, reports John Eggerton of Multichannel News.

“Are you ready for the kickoff?” NBC National Football League play-by-play man Al Michaels said to new Sunday Night Football analyst Cris Collinsworth. Collinsworth replaced the retired John Madden, who began his telecasts with his loudly proclaimed, “Are you ready for some football?”

“The football season also is when we learn why broadcasting is often referred to as ‘commercial television,’” writes Dusty Saunders of the Denver Post, referring to the sponsored Denver Broncos-related programming on CBS4, which refers to itself as “The Broncos Station.”

An occasional feature in which we explain and evaluate a SportsCenter anchor's pet phrase. Today's phrase: "Hotter than a fox in a forest fire."

Jampro Antennas, a Sacramento, Calif.-based provider of advanced antennas and RF equipment, will showcase its array of DTV products at IBC.