Intercollegiate Athletics Policy Manual

9.00 External Services and Communications

9.10.1 EXTERNAL SERVICES - Video Production

UT Athletics does not support an in-house unit to video production for multimedia broadcast or telecast purposes or for videoboard and videoscreen operations. Instead, UT Athletics, through its multimedia rights contract with IMG College – Texas Sports Network, allows a third party vendor to provide these services. The current vendor is Earl Miller Productions.

Billings for services needed by UT Athletics are permitted to be billed to IMG College – Texas Sports Network. IMG College – Texas Sports Network is then reimbursed by UT Athletics. Services that are billed include:

• All elements that are utilized for sponsorship fulfillment and scripting on video screens and video boards within UT Athletics facilities
• Video board and video screen production equipment and personnel crews for home football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball games
• Cabling and installation of appropriate equipment for video board and video screen production
• Highlight videos for use in banquets and awards presentations
• Video production of banquets and awards presentations
• Dubbing, digitizing and archiving of original UT Athletics-owned video (coaches’ films, etc.)

Earl Miller Productions produces all Longhorns Sports Center shows.   Billings for the shows featuring the football and men’s basketball coach are the responsibility of IMG College – Texas Sports Network. UT Athletics, in 2007-08, is billed for the Longhorns Sports Center Weekly show productions.

Earl Miller Productions provides these services at no charge to UT Athletics:

• Warehousing of all digital archives of UT Athletics-owned video inventory (since 1994, each football and men’s basketball season has been chronicled by EMPTV;
• Each women’s basketball home game has been chronicled by EMPTV since 2003;
• Beginning in 2007, each home event in volleyball, soccer and softball has been chronicled by EMPTV;
• Beginning in 2006, each home event in baseball has been chronicled by EMPTV)
• Clip services for television networks (ABC, ESPN, CBS) utilizing footage in contracted televised games

Earl Miller Productions also fulfills all video dubbing requests sourced by Collegiate Images. UT Athletics receives licensing and royalty fees from these requests through the University’s contract with Collegiate Images.

 

 

last updated: February 11, 2009