From the director’s chair inside NEP Denali Summit, it would be easy for Turner Sports director Lonnie Dale to be overwhelmed. The virtual monitor wall he faces is alight with signals from 29 cameras covering every inch of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. To help him tell the story of the National League Championship Series, he has 22 replay sources, two dozen microphones, six graphics sources, and a crew of 75 people.

The National Football League is once again jumping across the pond, holding this week’s game between the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in London’s Wembley Stadium. It will be déjà vu all over again for CBS Sports, which handled last season’s game from London with help from CTV OB.

Fox Sports Detroit unveiled a studio on Oct. 1, marking the first time that the regional network has a home base for game coverage. The studio, completed in conjunction with the network’s conversion to an all-digital facility, is the result of a multi-year planning and construction plan.

The 10-year relationship between Staples Inc. and AEG, which resulted in the Staples Center of sports-and-entertainment fame, is moving to the next level: forever and ever. Staples’ original naming-rights agreement with AEG has been “extended in perpetuity,” the two companies said. AEG contends that the arrangement is “the first lifetime naming-rights extension for a major-market arena.” The office-supply–store chain promised to pay almost $120 million in 1999 to put its name atop the Los Angeles arena for 20 years. Neither party revealed how much more Staples will pay to lock up the rights for good, saying only that it was a fee previously agreed upon in their contract…

Coming off a strong League Division Series (LDS) that led to record-breaking ratings for TBS, the network began its exclusive coverage of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) with nearly 7 million viewers for Game 1, between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Evertz has renewed its corporate sponsorship. Evertz Technologies Limited is designs, manufactures, and markets video and audio infrastructure equipment for production, post production, broadcast, and Internet protocol television.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome our newest sponsor, Mitsubishi Electric. The Official Large Outdoor Video Display Provider of the PGA TOUR, Mitsubishi Electric was the first company to introduce large-scale video display boards in 1980. Since then, Mitsubishi Electric has been recognized as the leader in visually stunning displays for sports facilities, advertising, entertainment and commercial applications.

CBC, Canada’s largest radio broadcaster, has installed a Euphonix System 5-BP in Studio 1 of their Vancouver facility. One of the finest sounding orchestra capable studios north of Los Angeles and west of Toronto, Studio 1 handles everything from small jazz combos to rock bands to 88 piece orchestra recordings.

Harris officially applauded the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s adoption of the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard A/153 for the delivery of over-the-air digital multimedia services to consumer devices, as the company spent four years working on the standard, along with LG Electronics.

Tapeless-technology specialist EVS Broadcast Equipment will provide a server solution for Sky News’ launch of Sky News HD in the spring of 2010 under terms of an agreement between the two companies.

The Studio at B&H, B&H Photo Video Pro Audio’s broadcast and digital-cinema division, was named an official reseller of Assimilate’s Scratch digital-process solution, and Scratch will be featured by appointment for work-flow demos of stereoscopic 3D, native RED 4K material, HD/SD, film, and other formats.

As director of multimedia services for the Oakland Athletics, David Don is responsible for the in-stadium video display presentation for all 81 of the A’s home games. In order to maximize the quality of the images that video display shows to A’s fans, Don turned to RF Central’s RFX-CMT-II transmitter and RMR-X6-II receiver.

Canon U.S.A. debuted its EOS-1D Mark IV digital SLR camera, which features a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, dual DIGIC 4 imaging processors, and 14-bit A/D data conversion, all at 10 frames per second.

The Miami Dolphins have selected Txtstation to provide an interactive text messaging feature for all home games of the 2009-2010 NFL season. To participate, fans at Land Shark Stadium will use their mobile phones and send a text message to a mobile short code. The incoming results will display on the screen in real time, creating an interactive forum for all to see.

Viewers of The Engage Rugby League Super League – which climaxed last Saturday with the Grand Final – have benefited from the flexibility of Bradley Engineering’s HDC_100 remote cameras as they provided League fans with key footage of important team talks.

TNT and PGA.com will be all over Port Royal Golf Course in Bermuda for the 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf, with TNT on-air Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. ET and Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 5 p.m.-9 p.m., and PGA.com providing exclusive early round coverage on both days.

U.K. soccer play-by-play veteran Martin Tyler, who has called matches in every FIFA World Cup since 1978, will join ESPN for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa as the lead play-by-play voice for the network’s exclusive English-language coverage in the United States, available on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN360.com, and ABC.

Brian Olson joined Ross Video as business-development manager for real-time 2D/3D HD character generator XPression, and he will be responsible for supporting the product line in the United States.

A carriage-agreement battle between cable operator Comcast and satellite-TV operator DirecTV involving four regional sports networks owned by the former could end up helping Versus, which is also owned by Comcast, writes John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal.

Akamai Technologies has introduced the Akamai HD Network, its next-generation video delivery offering that delivers HD video online to viewers using Adobe Flash technology and Microsoft Silverlight as well as to the iPhone, at broadcast scale.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media’s Postseason.TV live streaming service served an average of 350,000 streams for each game in the four Division Series match-ups, with 36,000 of those streams on iPhones or iPod Touch devices, Alex Weprin of Broadcasting & Cable reports.

The National Basketball Association will launch a season-long, $7 million-$10 million ad campaign aimed at the Hispanic market, which accounts for 15% of its total U.S. fan base of 120 million fans, Rich Thomaselli of AdAge.com reports.

On Sunday, Oct. 25, the Nationwide Tour will announce the No. 1 moment in Tour history. This will be the culmination of a year-long series of events and activities that have been conducted in celebration of the Nationwide Tour's first 20 years.

The Detroit Shock will relocate to Tulsa, Okla., and will be owned by a group of investors led by Oklahoma businessmen Bill Cameron and David Box, WNBA President Donna Orender announced. The sale and move are pending WNBA Board of Governors approval.

Darren Alline, chief engineer of WPLG in Pembroke Park, FL, has two tips for his peers in the industry who are planning to transition to HD local news: HD ENG is worth the effort and expense, and closed-captioning and working in a 720p environment are harder than one would think.

MLB Network is upgrading its operation with the addition of a Calrec Alpha audio console to support all of its studio programming, including the technically demanding signature show, "MLB Tonight."

Teams in the Indy Racing League are not happy with the number of viewers tuning into its races on Versus in year one of a 10-year carriage agreement between the two parties, John Ourand and Michael Smith of SportsBusiness Journal reported.

World Wrestling Entertainment executive vice president of global media Shane McMahon is leaving the WWE to pursue outside interests, Marc Graser of Variety reported.

LG Electronics said it will debut a portable DVD player/personal digital TV combo that uses the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s new Mobile Digital Television standard in early 2010, reports Amy Gilroy of TWICE.

Hunting, shooting, and fishing network Sportsman Channel will migrate from sports tiers to Comcast’s Digital Preferred level of service in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Savannah, GA; Tucson, AZ; and Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe, NM, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

The World’s Most Famous Arena wouldn’t be complete without an official airline and a signature partner, so Delta Air Lines agreed to fill both of those roles for Madison Square Garden, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

Fox’s Ken Rosenthal when the New York Yankees had a 3-0 lead in game three of Major League Baseball’s American League Championship Series Monday: “It’s like aura and mystique have made a comeback. Teams are falling apart at the sight of the Yankees. We saw it in the division series and we’re seeing it here in the ALCS. I don’t want to get far ahead of ourselves, but if you look ahead to a possible World Series matchup, maybe the Phillies, the tough-minded Phillies, are the kind of opponent they need.”

ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series takes a detailed look at Donald Trump and his involvement in the short-lived United States Football League, and Linda Stasi of the New York Post gives it three out of four stars.

Despite having two teams still alive in the Major League Baseball League Championship Series, Los Angeles is trailing New York and Philadelphia in the TV-ratings race, reports Richard Sandomir of The New York Times.

Rochelle Newman-Carrasco of AdAge.com gave two thumbs up to the National Football League’s handling of Hispanic Heritage Month during last week’s Monday Night Football game, in which the host Miami Dolphins stunned the New York Jets.