Recent Posts by Adrian Pennington
By Adrian Pennington | Friday, June 29, 2018 - 15:46
Much is being made of the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to dramatically scale up live sports production. However, caution is being urged by the very vendors developing […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, June 1, 2018 - 16:28
The BBC says it has found the answer to one of the problems bedevilling the industry’s transition to live HDR production — that of not compromising the standard dynamic range […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Tuesday, May 8, 2018 - 17:12
While the main innovation FIFA TV is providing for Russia is a 64-match UHD with HDR feed, there is an equally extensive VR production for the tournament. For the first […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 09:00
NEP’s trucks and team travelled down from Kelso in the Scottish borders on Sunday to set up at Aintree on the outskirts of Liverpool for ITV’s coverage of the Grand […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 10:00
The ITV Sport team is under starters orders for the Grand National on Saturday 14 April. It’s the nation’s favourite horse race and the most watched in the world – […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Monday, March 12, 2018 - 16:01
The world’s most popular motorsport gets the greenlight in Melbourne on 25 March under new management and an evolving suite of editorial products designed to reinvigorate storytelling and return to […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 12:35
The autonomous production of sporting events, eliminating the need for an on-site production team, director or camera operator, is making serious headway among professional clubs, federations and leagues. The technology […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Monday, November 27, 2017 - 09:24
Taking stock of the latest technological changes as 2017 draws to a close, SVG Europe found NEP UK’s Keith Lane (VP Client Services) and Simon Moorhead (MD) to be in […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Sunday, November 19, 2017 - 12:10
The BBC’s move to ramp up coverage of sport online is part of a comprehensive strategy to shift more – and eventually all – of its live event production onto […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Sunday, November 5, 2017 - 11:13
DAZN, the live and on-demand sport service, has only been running 14 months since exploding onto the scene in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. The UK-based streaming division of Perform […]
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