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To: recycle who wrote (1486)	1/18/1999 8:39:00 AM
From: joe z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2393

Interesting Article --Is Fox/QSTI next? Anyone heard of Princeton Video Images? The Fox Sports television network, notorious for introducing the glowing puck to National Hockey League games, will use a "virtual finish line" in its debut broadcast of the NTRA Champions on Fox series, the Donn Handicap Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park. The virtual finish line, which will appear as a broad stripe running from the photo-finish camera to the inner rail, is a new concept for televised racing, although the technology was introduced last year by ESPN-TV to show the first-down marker in National Football League games. It has since been adopted by CBS-TV for football broadcasts. "Everyone is looking for things that are more innovative and more engaging in sports broadcasting,'' said Brown Williams, founder and chairman of Princeton Video Images, the company that developed the virtual finish line for Fox. "I think this will be one of those things that people will see and wonder how they got along without it." The technology behind the virtual finish line, known as live video insertion, allows a broadcaster to display graphics or advertisements on the television screen without the graphic obscuring the live event. For example, the horses on the Fox broadcast will move across the virtual finish line without any part of the horse being hidden by the graphic. While the virtual finish-line will be a new addition, some familiar faces will serve as the broadcast crew for the national telecast. Joe Buck, Fox's lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball telecasts, will be the host for the broadcast, and Jay Privman, national correspondent for Daily Racing Form, will serve as an analyst with Ron Ellis, a Southern California trainer. Buck, Privman, and Ellis were part of the broadcasting crew for Fox's first national horse race telecast, the Santa Anita Derby, last year. Caton Bredar, the television analyst for Gulfstream Park, will be a reporter for the broadcast. Buck, the son of Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck, has been a radio and television announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals since 1991. He also does play-by-play for NFL games on Fox. The broadcast of the Donn Handicap will kick off the 11-race Champions on Fox series as part of Fox's preview coverage of the Super Bowl, which will be played the next day, Jan. 31, in Miami. Fox has scheduled the one-hour Donn broadcast in between two one-hour Super Bowl segments. Five of the Champions on Fox series races will be broadcast nationally on Fox Sports. The other seven will be broadcast on the Fox Sports Net, a collection of regional sports channels. The series includes a bonus based on the number of wins in the nationally televised races and participation in the Aug. 29 Pacific Classic, the final race in the series.