Last season, ESPN unveiled a brand-new scoreboard graphic for Monday Night Football. Doing away with the standard mini-scoreboard, ESPN created a dashboard, a horizontal information panel anchored to the bottom of the screen, eliminating some of the obtrusive graphics that had been taking over the on-screen action.

The New York Giants will be moving into the brand-new Meadowlands Stadium in time for the 2010 football season, but, in the meantime, the entire Giants Entertainment team is playing both sides of the ball. In addition to creating all of the TV, radio, live-game, and Web content for the New York Giants, VP/Executive Producer Don Sperling is heavily involved in the planning of the new stadium, from the size of the scoreboards to the equipment in the control room.

For the 40th-anniversary season of Monday Night Football, ESPN has plenty of changes in store, but the musical fixtures will bring viewers back to the show’s roots.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began its search for a new executive director to succeed Kimberly Maki, who served a three-year term and accepted a senior executive position with Bright House Networks.

For many sports fans, watching video clips on the iPhone has become a staple in their daily routine. On September 2, industry experts from Akamai, Inlet Technologies, and Turner Sports will team up for a live Webinar that will shed some light on iPhone video distribution strategies and solutions.

According to Arnaud Simon, broadcast director for Eurosport and Eurosport 2, the sports industry has reached a significant turning point. Right now, Simon says, we’re experiencing not only a technological revolution, but also an evolution in content. Simon will elaborate on his theory at IBC on Thursday, September 10 at 10:30 a.m. in The Forum.

Grass Valley is now shipping its K2 Dyno replay system throughout the United States and worldwide. The company says the K2 Dyno controller is designed to work seamlessly with the new Grass Valley K2 Summit HD-production client, addressing the need for HD-replay control in sports and other live telecasts.

Vizrt will debut the latest version of its branded mapping and geographic-animation software for broadcast, Viz Curious Maps 9.1, 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 debut its openGear 3-gigabit-per-second-capable HD/standard-definition 16-channel audio multiplexer/demultiplexer, which compliments the company’s existing distribution and conversion line, at IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15.

The new Panasonic AG-HPX300 P2 HD shoulder-mount camcorders are going tap-dancing. Director of photography Steven Poster shot two pilot segments of dance-centric documentary Tap Dreams using a pair of the camcorders.

MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems will introduce its Fiber-Comms four-wire optical extender designed for intercom lines at IBC2009 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15.

Miranda Technologies announced that it extended its support for third-party legacy routers, such as the GVG SMS7000 and Philips Jupiter, for its NVISION Enterprise Class range, enabling simpler migration to 3-gigabit-per-secnd, HD and fiber routing.

Omneon announced that its Omneon MediaGrid active storage system is now integrated with Telestream’s Pipeline video-capture device, giving users faster access to material needed for news, sports highlights, and studio-production environments.

3-D Movies are becoming regular fixtures in movie theaters, but how long before 3-D makes its way into our living rooms? According to an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, not long. Satellite-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting is preparing to debut a 3-D television channel in the U.K. next year and in the U.S., satellite-TV provider DirecTV Group and cable network owner Discovery Communications, among others, are working on or exploring 3-D offerings.

Brioconcept, an engineering team specializing in high-speed electronic design, was certified by Ross Video as a developer for the openGear terminal equipment platform.

Showtime Sports and NFL Films teamed up on five-part documentary Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League, which will debut on the pay network Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

ESPN will continue to deal out the World Series of Poker through April 2018 after anteing up in an extension with Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment. The network had been the television home of WSOP since 2003, and the current deal between the two parties was set to expire after the 2010 event.

ESPN2 will air up to 48 live Barclays Premier League matches on Saturday mornings and Monday afternoons during the 2009-10 season following an agreement between ESPN and Fox Sports International.

What if a cable network launches and no one is around to see it? NFL RedZone, the National Football League’s new channel, is set to launch in four weeks, but only Comcast has signed on to carry it, reports John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal.

Chicago 2016, the committee pushing Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, got some good news when the United States Olympic Committee announced that it would delay the launch of the U.S. Olympic Network, reports Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune.

Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox installed a three-channel MAXX video server from 360 Systems at Fenway Park.

In a case of corporate synergy working at its best, Long Island, NY-based newspaper Newsday rejected an ad from Tennis Channel that criticizes Cablevision Systems, parent of Newsday, for not carrying the cable network, Richard Sandomir of The New York Times reports.

Former Major League Baseball players Cal Ripken Jr., Rick Sutcliffe (currently an ESPN analyst) and Ron Darling (SportsNet New York and TBS) championed the cause of playing some World Series games during the day, and Michael McCarthy of USA Today is on board.

Mexico’s 2-1 win over the United States in last Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier was a ratings winner for Telemundo and mun2, but ESPN Deportes had reason to cheer, as well. ESPN’s Spanish-language network pulled in strong ratings for the 6 p.m. edition of nightly Mexican soccer news and information show Futbol Picante, its 3 p.m. pre-match show, its 10 p.m. edition of SportsCenter, and Cronómetro, its Pardon the Interruption-like show, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

The U.S. Open Tennis Championships will begin in Cablevision Systems’ backyard in Flushing, NY, Aug. 31, but the cable operator’s subscribers will be unable to follow much of the action unless Cablevision is able to reach a carriage agreement with Tennis Channel, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports.

Mexico’s soccer team has turned rivals Univision and Telemundo into strange bedfellows, as Univision, which hold the broadcast rights to the World Cup, must root for Mexico to qualify, ensuring strong ratings for Telemundo, which owns the rights to the World Cup qualifying games, reports Media Life’s Toni Fitzgerald.

The National Football League began promoting its NFL RedZone channel during NFL Network’s preseason doubleheader Saturday night featuring the St. Louis Rams at the New York Jets and the Denver Broncos at the San Francisco 49ers, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

If Fox was going to tout the fact that home-plate umpire Jim Joyce was wired for sound during the Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees Major League Baseball game Aug. 8, then why wouldn’t the network use the umpire-mike feature while Joyce was explaining the ejection of Red Sox pitcher Ramon Ramirez to manager Terry Francona?

If you’re a celebrity who wants to promote your new movie, TV show, or book, get in the ring. Jeremy Piven, Seth Green, and Shaquille O’Neal have already used World Wrestling Entertainment as a promotional vehicle, and Freddie Prinze Jr. will do so Monday night, Marc Graser of Variety reports.

Lance Armstrong has brought Scottish traffic to a standstill after more than 200 cyclists answered his Twitter invitation for a casual bike ride.

The ABC owned and operated station group recently took a giant leap forward in SNG newsgathering. With a fleet of nearly 100 ENG and SNG trucks among its 16 O&O stations, ABC upgraded 16 of its satellite newsgathering vehicles with a new MPEG-4 transmission and remote control system. The result has many at ABC smiling.

ESPN360.com, ESPN’s broadband sports network, is now available to Suddenlink subscribers with broadband download speeds of 450 kilobits per second or greater following an agreement between ESPN and the cable operator, which totals some 1.3 million subscribers in 19 states, Kent Gibbons of Multichannel News reports.

Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and ESPN analyst Michael Irvin is close to a deal to join NFL Network’s in-season Sunday pregame and postgame studio shows, if he can find time between his appearances on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, reports Barry Horn of The Dallas Morning News.

National Basketball Association superstar Shaquille O’Neal will take his latest shot at becoming a reality-TV superstar when Shaq Vs. debuts Tuesday night on ABC, Louisa Ada Seltzer of Media Life reports.

What’s a men’s-targeted cable network without a little TNA? Spike TV and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling agreed to a three-year extension of their partnership, including continued airing of Thursday-night series TNA Impact!, reports R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News.

Mindy McCready, who claims to have had an affair with former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, will appear on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, a reality show set to debut on VH1 early next year, reports, Christian Red of the New York Daily News.