Monthly Archives: July 2011

Matrox & Telestream combine for International GT

Written on July 18, 2011 at 16:26, by

London-based Ellegy has deployed Matrox Multi-Ingest video capture card and Telestream Wirecast Pro live webcasting software to capture and stream live web coverage of the International GT Open car championship […]  More

Eurosport snags IAAF rights

Written on July 18, 2011 at 16:18, by

A Pan-European broadcasting deal brokered by IEC in Sports, IAAF’s media rights agency for Europe and Africa, has seen Eurosport gain the rights for the IAAF World Athletics Series of […]  More

ESPN takes to the skies for The Open

Written on July 18, 2011 at 15:32, by

Sandwich: As well as the forest of cranes and towers that greeted visitors to Royal St George’s over the weekend as they trudged their way from the station over the […]  More

Lawo at the heart of World Cup action

Written on July 18, 2011 at 15:28, by

Germany: At the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the task of broadcasting the opening match, featuring the German team in Berlin, fell to BR’s FÜ1 HD truck. It was also used […]  More

Inside the game: CTV at The Open

Written on July 18, 2011 at 10:41, by

Sandwich: Friday afternoon on the Kent coast, and it’s very much the calm before the storm. The sun beats down on the Broadcast Compound, a 42-year old Ulsterman is moving […]  More

GlobeCast celebrates 15 years of Le Tour

Written on July 18, 2011 at 09:47, by

GlobeCast is once more on-site at the Tour de France to provide the French national broadcaster France Télévisions with a complete system to broadcast every stage of the race. Each […]  More

Inside the game: Eurosport’s Tour

Written on July 14, 2011 at 11:18, by

France: As one of the longest-established add-ons to France Television’s host coverage of the Tour de France, Eurosport’s production sees 35 people comprising four crews traverse France. Sometimes that transfer […]  More

BBC HD/3D boss quits

Written on July 13, 2011 at 16:32, by

Broadcast: The BBC’s head of HD and 3D Danielle Nagler is leaving the corporation along with her two team members – and is not being directly replaced.  More

GBsport.tv to launch with low cost production tech

Written on July 13, 2011 at 16:02, by

UK: A combined effort between Input Media, Kameleon, Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and Convers Sports Initiatives (CSI), the GBsport.tv platform plans to stream 1400 hours of live coverage over IP […]  More

Chyron on the fairways at Scottish Open

Written on July 13, 2011 at 14:52, by

Seven Chyron HyperX3 on-air graphics systems were used for live coverage of the Scottish Open, MOOV using two to provide presentation graphics for the BBC’s domestic feed, while MST Systems […]  More