April 19, 200521 yr Vyvx Expands HD VenueNet? Service, Carrying Fox Sports Net HDTV Feeds for MLB Events? Company Overview > Press Releases > undefined > April 18, 2005 ? ? ? ? News Release April 18, 2005 Company Also Expands Standard Definition Footprint in Miami, Tallahassee LAS VEGAS ? NAB Booth #C9732 (April 18, 2005) ? Vyvx, the market leader in providing fiber-optic and satellite transmission solutions to the media and entertainment industry, announced today that it has expanded its HD VenueNet? Service to include 27 Major League Baseball venues.? HD VenueNet gives broadcasters the ability to transport live high-definition television (HDTV) feeds end-to-end at up to 270 Mbps, over an MPLS infrastructure. Fox Sports Net is utilizing the Vyvx? HD VenueNet expansion to carry live, 720p HDTV broadcast feeds from various stadiums across the country to their Houston facility for more than 60 events during the 2005 MLB season.? In addition to the HDTV events on Fox Sports Net, Vyvx will provide Fox Sports with standard-definition backhaul services for its entire coverage of MLB events during the regular season this year. Vyvx also continues to expand its standard-definition services to meet the needs of its broadcast customers.? Vyvx now has 54 Television Switching Centers (TSCs) across the nation, most recently expanding to Tallahassee, Fla.? To meet the demand for MPEG-2 services in key areas around the country, Vyvx has also expanded its MPEG-2 Compressed Fiber Services to Miami. ?Our continued expansion of services enable broadcast customers to move video around the country when they need it and where they need it at the highest quality in the industry,? said Derek Smith, vice president of Vyvx.? ?This includes not only helping them with something like the growth of HDTV programming, but also expanding our fiber footprint for standard services, giving customers the security and reliability of fiber transport to and from new markets.? The new HD VenueNet locations are: Oriole Park (Baltimore), Fenway Park (Boston), U.S. Cellular Field (Chicago), Wrigley Field (Chicago), Great American Ballpark (Cincinnati), Jacobs Field (Cleveland), The Ballpark in Arlington (Arlington, Texas), Comerica Park (Detroit), Minute Maid Park (Houston), Kaufman Stadium (Kansas City), Edison Field (Anaheim, Calif.), Pro Player Stadium (Miami), Miller Park (Milwaukee), Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia), Network Associates Coliseum (San Francisco), Safeco Field (Seattle), Busch Stadium (St. Louis), and Tropicana Field (Tampa). Customers wanting to learn more about Vyvx services can visit the Vyvx booth (#C9732 in Central Hall) at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference and Expo this week in Las Vegas. Vyvx?s history and experience providing transmission services for live sports broadcasts is unmatched ? it was the first company to backhaul a non-live video feed over fiber in 1988 for FOX?s then new hit show America?s Most Wanted, and to transmit a live broadcast event over a fiber-optic network in 1990.? Vyvx currently provides broadcast transmission services for more than 16,000 live events per year.? Overall, Vyvx provides nearly 200,000 video feeds for its customers annually, transmitting more than 100 million video minutes.? For more information, please visit www.vyvx.com.? About Vyvx, LLC Vyvx provides video delivery solutions over fiber optics and satellite to global advertising, sports, news, and entertainment customers.? Vyvx offers a wide range of dedicated and occasional services and its electronic footprint reaches more than 12,000 online television and radio stations, networks and cable head-ends, as well as more than 100 professional sports venues and all major media centers, movie studios and production facilities.? Vyvx is a subsidiary of WilTel Communications, LLC, the operating subsidiary of WilTel Communications Group, Inc., which is a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation. Vyvx and VenueNet are registered trademarks of WilTel Communications Group, Inc. This press release may contain "forward-looking statements." Although WilTel believes any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that actual outcomes will not be materially different. WilTel assumes no obligation to update those statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions and other factors. The forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information that could lead to material changes in performance is contained in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made by Leucadia. Edit: I have been asked about Marlins on FSN HD... FSN says they hope to have it soon but the crash of VOOM makes it impossible to do now. This fiber is now in place though and will allow distribution in the future.
April 19, 200521 yr Cape, I don't mean to be nosey but I was curious what it is precisely that you do. You must be with the media in some capacity, given all the information that you constantly come out with. Just wanted to know.
April 19, 200521 yr Author Actually, I don't work for the media. I was notified of this Press Release via e-mail. I think rferry got it as well. I have also been in contact with FSN Florida and they updated me this afternoon on the status of the Marlins on FSN.
April 19, 200521 yr Author Developed into a hobby after I started the crusade to get the Marlins on TV and Radio in July of 2003. I have contact with the team but they are now out of control as FSN will control all local tv rights starting with 2006. I expect some new and exciting things in the next few years including the ability to see a Marlins game on demand, get all 150 games in Spanish via SAP, Marlins on Deck for all 150 games, the progression of postgame coverage, the addition of more things at the ballpark like HD, and HD presentation of games for those of us at home.
April 19, 200521 yr You can get season tickets for less than the price of a good big screen HDTV. 747450[/snapback]
April 19, 200521 yr You can get season tickets for less than the price of a good big screen HDTV. 747450[/snapback] I'll take the TV. It'll last me more than 81 games.
April 19, 200521 yr You can get season tickets for less than the price of a good big screen HDTV. 747450[/snapback] I'll take the TV. It'll last me more than 81 games. 747498[/snapback] 81 live games and 81 TV games > 162 TV games
April 19, 200521 yr HDTVs are durable goods... They last a bit longer than 1 baseball season. Not only do they last longer than one baseball season, you can also watch more than 1 sport on an HDTV! For example, if you have DirecTv NFL Sunday ticket, you can get numerous HDTV football games a week. You can even watch movies on an HDTV! Sitcoms too! So you guys can drop the silly "season tickets are better than an HDTV" nonsense and let this thread get back on topic. When I saw a post with "HDTV" and "Marlins" in the same sentence, I sprung wood.
April 19, 200521 yr I'll be waiting for the day Adelphia provides FSNHD Florida. This is great news...
April 19, 200521 yr VOOM is dead... over... done with... April 30th, 2005 is the final day of transmission. http://www.voom.com/
April 19, 200521 yr Author OK, FSN Florida has another announcement for me to make. HD will be available to all cable and satellite providers who currently carry FSN Florida. They just have to be able to pass it forward to the viewers. FSN Florida is expecting 50% of their 2006 MLB productions to be in HD via FSN HD. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread....threadid=531853
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