Talking ‘bout my federation
One of the big changes of the past handful of years in the sports broadcast industry has been the widening of content choice as leagues, federations and other rights holders […] More
Recent Posts by Andy Stout
Looking to the second screen future with deltatre
Carlo De Marchis is Chief Technology Officer of deltare, and thus one of the people with their fingers firmly on the evolving digital pulse of sports broadcasting. He says that […] More
BT Vision leads the way — sort of
UK telco BT has just passed the landmark figure of 750,000 subscribers for its IPTV service, BT Vision. The figure might be small so far, but, with paradigm-shifting sports-rights deals […] More
ESPN takes ESPNcricinfo mobile
Starting from humble beginnings at the very dawn of the Internet, ESPNcricinfo has, over 19 years, become one of the main specialist sports Websites on the Web, serving 800 million […] More
EVS powers Canal Football App
Followers of France’s Ligue 1 are some of the first to experience EVS’s C-Cast technology, which Canal+ has tapped to power its innovative second-screen app for subscribers. Canal Football App […] More
BBC iPlayer, Danker, build off Olympic success
In one 24-hour period during London 2012, traffic to the BBC website exceeded all that it received during the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. On its busiest day, […] More
SIS LIVE launches 3G-capable, midsize vehicle
UK OB giant SIS LIVE’s latest truck, OB14, is a 12-camera, 3-Gbps-capable vehicle aimed firmly at the midrange market in both sports and LE work. “It makes sense for us […] More
BBC sets sail with Sunset + Vine for Olympic coverage
With the Olympics well underway at the various Olympic Park venues, over 100 miles away on the South Coast, Weymouth is hosting the sailing. And, uniquely for these Games, the BBC is using an independent production company, Sunset + Vine, to produce its unilateral add-on to the OBS feed from the boats. Various events so […] More
One billion digital users for London Games? deltatre’s Quinn expects more
The Olympics being what it is, much of what Web and data specialist deltatre is up to at London 2012 is weighted down by hefty non-disclosure agreements and can’t be […] More
Liverpool’s Edit TV takes the second screen to China
Liverpool-based Edit TV has quite cleverly managed to run two of the broadcast industry’s recent obsessions together, namely monetising the second screen on the one hand, and exploiting the vast […] More