Turner Sports’ regular-season coverage of the NBA tips off Tuesday night with a double-header that features several powerhouse teams, and Turner is providing an equally weighty equipment complement. The Cleveland Cavaliers host the Boston Celtics before the Los Angeles Lakers’ ring ceremony serves as a prelude to their game against the Los Angeles Clippers, and Turner Sports is setting up 18 cameras on both courts to cover every inch of the action.

PGA TOUR Entertainment is building a media-asset-management (MAM) system that will move the organization into a tapeless environment and promises to speed existing workflows while preserving the rich history of PGA TOUR golf tournaments, interviews with players, and more.

UK media regulator and licensing authority Ofcom has published its Spectrum Plan to “manage the airwaves” during the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics. Under these proposals, it hopes to provide enough capacity for the radio microphones, in-ear monitoring (IEM), and wireless cameras that form the backbone of broadcast coverage.

Vancouver is still a bit concerned about the El Niño effect on next year’s snowfall, but NBC is ready with some new approaches to audio for the 2010 Winter Olympics Games in Vancouver (Feb. 12-28). Like the Beijing Olympics broadcast, the Vancouver Games will be in HD and 5.1, but Bob Dixon, director of sound design and communications for NBC’s Olympics coverage, promises more-aggressive surround mixing at certain venues next year. The luge and bobsled events will benefit from NASCAR-like “speed-shot” microphone techniques.

UK outside-broadcast and uplinking company SIS LIVE has been awarded the multimillion-dollar contract to supply production and distribution facilities for the XIX Commonwealth Games. The event takes place during October 2010 in Delhi, India, where SIS LIVE will be working with host broadcaster Doordarshan, a division of the country’s biggest public-broadcasting service, Prasar Bharati.

The concrete pedestrian ramps at the brand-new $1.5 billion city-subsidized Yankee Stadium have been troubled by cracks, and the team is seeking to determine whether the problems were caused by the installation, the design, the concrete, or other factors, according to several people briefed on the problems. The ramps were built by a company accused of having links to the mob, and the concrete mix was designed and tested by a company under indictment on charges that it failed to perform some tests and falsified the results of others. But it is unclear whether work performed by either firm contributed to the deterioration of the ramps…

Sony and LVR are pleased to present a 2/3-Inch HD camera hands-on workshop to be held at Manhattan Center Studios, located at 311 West 34th Street, on Saturday, November 7, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. In addition to the informative “Hands-On” presentations covering the XDCAM 422 (PDW series), we will debut three newly-developed Sony HD Camcorders, designed to satisfy a variety of different production requirements. Guest speakers will be on hand.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that DTS has renewed its platinum sponsorship. DTS is a digital technology company dedicated to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome our newest corporate sponsor, Dolby. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. is the global leader in technologies that are essential elements in the best entertainment experiences. Founded in 1965 and best known for high-quality audio and surround sound, Dolby creates innovations that enrich entertainment at the movies, at home, or on the go.

The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome back sponsors Filmwerks International and RayV Technologies. A mobile sponsor, Filmwerks combines experienced technicians with high-end power to provide dvanced and reliable entertainment equipment. A corporate sponsor, RayV is an Internet distributor of TV and events.

Ascent Media Group’s Ascent Media Singapore unit will use OmniBus Systems’ iTX playout platform for HD lifestyle channel Li TV, which stands for Life Inspired and which will air 24/7 throughout the Asia-Pacific region from its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

MIRA Mobile Television outfitted its latest production truck, M9HD, with a 64-fader Calrec Sigma console, and the new 53-foot trailer with a 51-foot expanding side has been on the road covering sports and entertainment events since June.

Ross Video reached an agreement with Spanish TV- and broadcast-equipment supplier Eurocom Broadcast under which the latter will develop turn key projects television and radio.

Public radio station WNYC will use ViewCast’s Niagara GoStream SURF portable encoding system for its newly opened multimedia performance space and broadcast studio, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia named a new sideline reporter for its broadcasts of home games for the National Basketball Association’s Philadelphia 76ers, as Jaime Maggio joined the regional sports network.

NBC Universal will launch its Countdown to Vancouver initiative Wednesday Nov. 4, exactly 100 days from the Feb. 12 opening ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

ESPN will salute veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces Nov. 4-11 with America’s Heroes: A Salute to Our Veterans, which will wrap up with a special edition of SportsCenter Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Veteran’s Day), from West Point.

AmberFin, a provider of image quality for HD/standard-definition ingest, video conversion, and transcoding worldwide, established its new North American headquarters in Burbank, CA, where it will join several of its clients, including Ascent Media Networks, Sony Pictures, Disney Studios, Technicolor, and Warner Bros.

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is coming to a big screen near you, as NASCAR reached a three-year agreement with cinema-ad network Screenvision to bring original branded content to 15,000 movie screens, Jeremy Mullman of AdAge.com reports.

TNT National Basketball Association analyst and former player Kenny Smith spoke with Diego Vasquez of Media Life about the league’s 2009-10 season, which tips off Tuesday night.

Much as the threat of rain was a major story during the American League Championship Series, weather may rear its ugly head as a factor during Major League Baseball’s World Series, writes Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News.

Fox is nearly sold out of ad time for the first five games of Major League Baseball’s World Series, in which the New York Yankees will battle the Philadelphia Phillies, reports Holly Sanders Ware of the New York Post.

Wal-Mart is taking the rare step of targeting some of its TV advertising during National Football League games toward women, David Goetzl of MediaDailyNews reports.

The National Hockey League announced that it will debut an official page on social-networking site Facebook Monday, Laurie Sullivan of Online Media Daily reports.

Former New York Rangers broadcaster and National Hockey League referee Bill Chadwick died at the age of 94 in Cutchogue, NY, Richard Goldstein of The New York Times reports.

Tim McCarver’s analysis in the Fox broadcast booth for game six of the American League Championship Series, in which the New York Yankees eliminated the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, was spot-on, writes Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News.

NBA Digital senior vice president and general manager Bryan Perez spoke with Diego Vasquez of Media Life about the National Basketball Association’s digital plans for the upcoming season.

Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are doing more by doing less in Fox’s broadcast booth for the American League Championship Series, which the New York Yankees won over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Sunday night, and the upcoming World Series, Dusty Saunders of The Denver Post writes.

ESPN announced that Major League Baseball analyst Steve Phillips no longer works for the network, adding that the former general manager of the New York Mets was entering a treatment facility “to address his personal issues,” ESPN.com reported.

Mayleen Ramey is the new host of Tennis Channel’s travel lifestyle show, Destination Tennis, and her first installment will air Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m., Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports.

Canadian hockey star Sidney Crosby will carry the Olympic torch in his home province of Nova Scotia next month.

The National Hockey League (NHL) has unveiled the official NHL fan page on Facebook. The NHL's new presence on Facebook is part of the League's broader initiative to make it convenient for fans to find and interact with NHL content, and have more control and flexibility over sharing NHL content with their friends.