How new technologies and careful planning can ‘fix the live stream’
High profile glitches with live streamed sports indicate that, if the net isn’t broken, it is in need of a fix. The Mayweather-McGregor bout in August was targeted by 239 […] More
Recent Posts by Adrian Pennington
Drone racing ready to go live
First person view (FPV) racing of small quadcopters is shifting from hobby into mainstream sport by blending the digital and physical worlds in a way no esport or traditional racing […] More
FilmNova presents first roving in-field camera at World Para Athletics Championships
Channel 4 has excited audiences with coverage of world class performances over 10 nights of the 9th World Para Athletics Championships, from 14-23 July. Presentation for the broadcaster at the […] More
Digital soccer network Copa90 outlines ambitious growth targets
UK-based digital network BigBalls Media is poised to overtake ESPN by volume of unique viewers it attracts per month, according to its CEO, Tom Thirlwall. He claims the company, whose […] More
Online football-focused publisher Dugout expands to include leagues and federations
Egypt is the number one country on social media for football. Bayern Munich has more Egyptian followers than Germans. It’s that type of insight which has persuaded dozens of the […] More
The future of SMPTE 2110 and beyond
A year ago the broadcast equipment manufacturing industry was at loggerheads in pursuit of incompatible paths to the common goal of transitioning video from SDI over IP. As we head […] More
Games engines are transforming virtual sets and then TV
Is the writing on the wall for the traditional virtual set renderer? Traditional virtual set vendors seem to think so. Here’s the view of Gideon Ferber, director, product management and […] More
Europe primed for remote live and video ref production
Remote live event production is taking off in Europe in a big way this year with the installation of remote capability by at least two service providers for coverage of […] More
Live VR trialled at IMG Champions Tennis at the RAH
There can be few grander or more theatrical arenas in world sport than London’s Royal Albert Hall, the venue this past week for IMG’s Champions Tennis and the focus of […] More
Sports look to social media to drive engagement and revenue
Real Madrid generated more than 110 million views on social media after pushing content from its club TV channel to Facebook Live earlier this year. With reach like that it […] More