Turner Sports’ PlayOn Sports Webcasting division signed a deal to stream nine Big Ten Conference men’s basketball games online this season, in what PlayOn senior vice president and general manager Phil Sharpe termed a “trial.” Each of the nine non-conference games will be available for free at BigTenNetwork.com, both live and on-demand. The games will include the Nov. 1 season openers for Iowa and Minnesota. Turner launched PlayOn last year with the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which offers ACC Select. The ACC site charges for per-event or subscription-based access to around 650 otherwise non-televised events from the conference, like lacrosse games. Turner has since inked similar deals with the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) and the United Soccer Leagues (USL). PlayOn’s low-cost video-production model is centered on a kit with four Canon XL2 digital camcorders, a PC-based video-encoding server loaded with Microsoft’s Media Encoder and other software for managing on-site production. The live video is sent over a standard 2-megabit-per-second or faster Internet connection to PlayOn’s server farm for distribution. Each kit includes a little more than $30,000 of equipment.http://multichannel.com/article/CA6495971.html
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