American Cable televison network, try Golf Channel has selected leading content optimization platform RAMP to deliver next generation search and video experiences on GolfChannel.com.

RAMP’s new implementation on GolfChannel.com includes RAMP’s award winning universal search solution, brand viagra online which enables users to easily and quickly find all relevant content on the site across all formats- video, audio, text and image, as well as RAMP’s topic page publishing solution, which automatically identifies and publishes thousands of user-friendly topic pages for easy navigation across Golf Channel’s content collection. Golf Channel is also utilizing RAMP’s topic page solution to build customer “advertorial” offerings for its sponsors. In just the first month since launch, RAMP’s search solution has increased user engagement by 141% and topic pageviews by 14%. RAMP’s solution replaces a previous search implementation that lacked the ability to deliver comprehensive results across the site’s deep catalog of premium golf content.

In addition, Golf Channel will be integrating RAMP’s new MetaPlayer video framework, which delivers a more engaging user experiences with advanced time-based capabilities such as “jump-to” video search, tag and scene-based navigation, and contextually related content and advertising integrations. Golf Channel implementation will also take advantage of MetaPlayer’s integration SDK with Golf Channel’s existing online video provider ThePlatform. RAMP’s studies have shown that other MetaPlayer implementations increase video engagement by more than 70%.

“RAMP’s solutions are designed to deliver immediate results for media companies and enterprises building next generation digital businesses,” said Tom Wilde, RAMP CEO. “We are thrilled to be working with Golf Channel and creating unique experiences for users across their digital properties.”

“RAMP’s search and video solutions were easy to integrate across GolfChannel.com, and have delivered immediate results for us,” said Mike Lowe, Senior Director of Business & Strategy. “Most importantly, RAMP enables us to create unique experiences for our users that keep them coming back.”

Birmingham are to host ‘Cricket in the City’ on the 8 August 2011. The all day free cricket festival will take part in the city centre around Victoria Square.

Edgbaston will be hosting the 3rd npower Test Match against India two days later.

‘Cricket in the City’ is a flagship debut event to engage the public and create a local buzz for the upcoming Test Match.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is looking to create more positive enthusiasm right through to the grassroots level of the sport, even more so with the positive results that English Cricket has produced lately.

Public engagement is very much the name of the game when ‘Cricket in the City’ was decided upon.

Confusion continues to reign across India over the governing bodies running the country’s hockey, one of the country’s most popular sports.

Rival bodies Hockey India (HI) and the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) are competing to control the administration of the sport. However, amidst news that the two bodies agreed to form a joint executive board to run the game on Monday, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) acting president Vijay Kumar Malhotra has rubbished the new truce, labelling it “a bizarre live-in relationship”.

The arrangement to form a joint board was set to run until December 31, 2012. Indian Sports Minister Ajay Maken, who has tried to reform sport in the country since being appointed earlier this year, has been the driving force behind the partnership, although the organisations involved have insisted it is not a merger.

However, Malhotra insisted the National Olympic Committee would only recognise one body.

He said: “We don’t want to open a Pandora’s box which will lead to total chaos in Indian sports.

“Unless a unified body is formed to run hockey, it will not be acceptable. IOA will never accept two co-chairpersons for one federation. This is not feasible and workable.”

On the role of Maken, Malhotra said: “In his bid to be seen as a minister in action, he has become minister in distortion. How can two separate entities run a single sport?”

He added: “This so-called skewed agreement also strengthens IOA’s stand that government should steer clear of interfering in the affairs of sports bodies. It is laughable and highly incredulous to call such agreement good for Indian sports.”

Digital sports rights firm Perform announced last Friday, April 8, that it is to float on the stock exchange at 260p per share, giving a market capitalisation of £586m (US$958m).

Perform is the first digital media company since Moneysupermarket.com, four years ago, to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

The company, perhaps best known for delivering the online only broadcast of England versus Ukraine in 2009, had given guidance that the price range for the float would be 255p to 325p.

Perform’s two main sources of revenue are from distributing sports content to bookmakers and online media across the world, and revenue from ads running within content on its own and others’ websites.

The company has made an initial public offering of 25 per cent of its equity and has raised proceeds of £67.5m ($110.4m) for ‘strategic acquisitions and to exploit more fully organic growth opportunities’.

Perform has experienced a compound annual sales growth rate of more than 50 per cent over the past three years.

One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson and former Doncaster Rovers owner John Ryan have completed the takeover of the League One outfit, a spokesman for Ryan has said.

The duo will become co-chairmen and equal partners after buying out majority shareholders Terry Bramall and Dick Watson.

A deal had been close before but a move was twice delayed because of negotiations over image rights.

Ryan’s spokesman said: “It’s done, the takeover is complete.”

Tomlinson, 22, was born in Doncaster and is a lifelong supporter of Rovers; he also played for their reserve team against Rotherham in February.

Ryan, who ended his 15-year association with Rovers in November, will be the lesser known of the two men but will doubtless be the more hands-on.

The businessman has extensive football experience and oversaw Doncaster’s rise from non-league to the Championship as well as their move from Belle Vue to the Keepmoat Stadium before stepping aside in November to allow Terry Bramall and Dick Watson to take over.

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has appointed its first female president with the promotion of Cathie Sabin.

The vice-president stepped up to replace outgoing figurehead Peter Bretherton, at the LTA’s annual general meeting at the Roehampton National Tennis Centre in London on Wednesday.

Stepping down after his three-year term of office, Bretherton also said the LTA is indebted to former chief executive Roger Draper.

Draper came under fire when his £640,000 salary was revealed in the 2012 annual financial report.

He stepped down from his role in September and will be replaced by head of Tennis Canada Michael Downey in January.

Backing new president Sabin to shine, Bretherton said: “Cathie’s qualities, knowhow and experience make her eminently qualified for this role.

“And with her at the helm for the next three years, British tennis is in good hands.”

New LTA figurehead Sabin pledged to keep pushing to improve participation levels in the sport across all levels.

Addressing the AGM, Sabin said: “I am really looking forward to working with you all and coming out around the regions to visit your teams.

“Thank you so much, and I would also like to thank Peter for his support and guidance over the last three years.”

Bretherton’s last word before relinquishing his presidency was to launch a defence of departed chief executive Draper.

Bretherton said: “During his watch the organisation was transformed. He introduced the British tennis membership scheme, and was instrumental in the professionalisation of the talent identification scheme.

“British tennis owes Roger an enormous debt of gratitude.”

1, viagra 8 Millionen Menschen haben am Mittwochabend, medicine 29. August, im Ersten die Eröffnungsfeier der 14. Sommer-Paralympics in London verfolgt. Das entspricht einem Marktanteil von 12,6 Prozent. “Ein schöner Erfolg, der zeigt, dass der Behindertensport in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen ist”, so Lutz Marmor, Intendant des innerhalb der ARD federführenden NDR. Die ARD werde in nie dagewesenem Umfang von den Paralympics in London berichten, so Marmor. “Ich freue mich auf packende Berichte von spannenden Wettbewerben.”

Noch bis zum 9. September werden rund 4200 Sportlerinnen und Sportler, aus 166 Ländern in 20 verschiedenen Sportarten an den Start gehen. Das Erste zeigt etwa 37 Stunden der insgesamt von ARD und ZDF rund geplanten 65 Stunden Sendezeit aus London. Alexander Bommes und René Kindermann moderieren die “Paralympics live”-Sendungen im Ersten, die an den ARD-Sendetagen jeweils um 10.30 Uhr beginnen. Zudem sind längere Paralympics-Übertragungen am Vorabend (18.00 bis 19.50 Uhr) sowie in der Nacht zwischen ca. 23.30 bis 1.20 Uhr geplant. Der ehemalige Leichtathlet Jörg Frischmann, Paralympics-Sieger im Kugelstoßen, wird das ARD-Team mit seinem Know-how unterstützen.

Erstmals wird es Live-Signale von bis zu acht Sportarten gleichzeitig geben (Leichtathletik, Schwimmen, Tischtennis, Bahnrad, Judo, Basketball, Rugby, Fußball, Tennis, Sitzvolleyball). Das versetzt die ARD in die Lage, ein Live-Programm zu produzieren, das dem der Olympischen Spiele kaum nachsteht. An ARD-Sendetagen wird es ein Live-Streaming des Ersten auf sportschau.de geben. Neben den Live-Übertragungen berichten regelmäßig auch die Nachrichten-Sendungen von ARD aktuell, das “Morgen”- und das “Mittagsmagazin”, die “Sportschau” sowie die Dritten Programme der ARD über die Paralympics.

Die Hörfunk-Programme der ARD werden fast rund um die Uhr von einem kleinen leistungsstarken Radioteam mit Berichten und Reportagen aus London versorgt. Neben aktuellen Nachrichten, spannenden Geschichten und Interviews sind auch Live-Reportagen von der Eröffnungs- und Schlussfeier, von der Leichtathletik und vom Schwimmen geplant. Im Mittelpunkt der Berichterstattung sollen vor allem die individuellen Leistungen der paralympischen Athleten, ihre Begeisterung für den Sport und die Atmosphäre dieser speziellen Spiele stehen. 

Eredivisie Live, ailment a Dutch premium football channel, erectile is set to launch a new TV everywhere app called Eredivisie Live Go on August in a partnership with cable operator Ziggo. 

Eredivisie Live Go will make all live and on-demand programming from the channel available on tablets (both iPads and Android), smartphones (iPhone and Android), as well as on Macs, PCs and laptops. Subscribers to the channel who are Ziggo customers will receive the new service automatically.

Arno de Jong, director of media and marketing at Eredivisie Live, said: “Eredivisie Live is more than just TV. We offer top football live on every platform; that is what our subscribers want. Eredivisie Live Go is now available to Ziggo subscribers with a subscription and they can access the live football channel anytime and anywhere. Whether at home, visiting or traveling: Eredivisie Live Go brings extensive live football on TV, computer, tablet or mobile.”

Marcel Nijhoff, commercial director of Ziggo. added: “The introduction of Eredivisie Live Go fits perfectly with our ‘TV everywhere’ strategy. After the introduction of our Ziggo TV app, HBO and HBO Go app, Eredivisie Live Go is the next step. Our customers are now the first in the Netherlands to also enjoy Eredivisie Live on their tablet, smartphone or PC.”

Billionaire Phil Anschutz’s AEG Worldwide will take on a bigger share of the costs of the project to build a new Los Angeles football stadium than originally proposed.

The project, unhealthy if approved, symptoms would be the second NFL stadium out of the 23 built since 1992 to be financed entirely by private funds, according to a report. AEG would earn an estimated 6.7 percent annual return, less than half the rate of a typical stadium developer.

AEG, owner of the Staples Center basketball arena, has proposed putting the stadium on an adjacent site and bringing a National Football League team back to Los Angeles, the second- largest U.S. city. AEG has made concessions including paying for parking garages in an effort to win over city officials.

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said: “This is a significantly different deal than the one that was given us.”

The City Council is holding public hearings on the plan this week, and is expected to vote in August.