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Sky Sport and SVG Europe Austria Summit: Innovation in a fast-changing marketAt the second edition of the Sky Sport and SVG Europe Summit Austria in Salzburg, broadcasters and manufacturers discussed the opportunities and challenges presented by new industry developments. The panel discussions at this top-level industry event in February were moderated...
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Sky Summit 2020 slices into 5G trials and challengesAt the Sky Summit 2020 supported by SVG Europe, held in Munich at Mathäser Filmpalast (8 October 2020), a session looking at 5G in sports production, titled Opportunities and Challenges 2021, set the scene for where Sky Germany is right...
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Sky Summit 2020 focuses on COVID-19 innovations and challengesAs the first in-person event after seven months of lockdown, Sky Summit 2020 at Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich (8 October 2020) brought together the top decision-makers of the sports broadcast industry in Germany. Hosted by Sky Deutschland in cooperation with...
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Bundesliga re-start: Debate rages around stadiums and social distancingThe Bundesliga is planning a re-start to the season. Now, it is up to the politicians in Germany to come up with the starting signal. The decision for the re-start is up to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German governors...
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Solidarity fund, cyber training and rights manoeuvres during Bundesliga breakIn Germany, the Bundesliga break will be extended until April 30 due to the coronavirus pandemic, following an announcement by the chair of the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga). As the general assembly discussed in mid-March, it is still the intention...
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Dietmar Hopp: Controversial Hoffenheim sponsor speaks out on coronavirus and commercialisationDietmar Hopp, the main sponsor of German Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and majority shareholder of Tübingen-based biotech company CureVac, keeps hitting the headlines. As the founder of the largest German computer corporation SAP, he sold his stakes and invested...
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Sky Sport Summit Munich: Football the binding agent as sports rights fragmentFootball is a multi-billion dollar business. But the TV landscape is changing. In Germany, the golden times, in which only one broadcaster held all the rights, have gone. The Federal Cartel Office fragmented the sports rights by implementing a No...
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Sky Sport Summit Munich: ESL, EVS and Riot discuss the eSports journey to dateThe eSports universe is expanding. eSports is no longer the domain of the gamer community but attracts about 400 million fans worldwide. At the big eSports tournaments where League of Legends, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike are played in huge stadiums,...
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Sky Sport Summit Munich: The beautiful world of sports, metadata and digital transformation to the foreWhile UHD and HDR are improving the image quality of broadcast production, data management can create additional value for storytelling when graphical data usage such as AR comes into the picture. The potential of metadata management is also a driver for...
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Gateway to an IP UHD truck: More scalable, secure and agile software stacksAt a recent open day for tpc Switzerland’s new flagship UHD1 IP-based OB truck in Zürich, SVG Europe sat down with Imagine Communications’ playout & networking solutions president Steve Reynolds. We talked about the development of the new truck, SMPTE...
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Ready for primetime: On the road with tpc’s flagship UHD1 IP-based OB truckSince tpc rolled its UHD1 OB truck onto Swiss roads last October, the IP and HDR truck has produced a number of sports, entertainment and cultural shows. “If you walk into the truck, it doesn’t look different as an OB...
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Sky Sport Summit: Fan engagement challenges for Sky Deutschland and FC Bayern MunichThe final session at the March 22 Sky Sport Summit in Munich, held in cooperation with SVG Europe, focused on Fan Engagement and Customer Experience. In the digital age, soccer clubs as well as broadcasters need to market their brand...
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Sky Sport Summit: eSports business booming as tech giants look to get in the gameeSports is expected to grow at a rapid pace in the next couple of years. In Germany, Sport1 is presenting eSports news and matches on TV as well as on its streaming platform. Meanwhile soccer clubs such as VfB Stuttgart...
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Sky Sport Summit in cooperation with SVG Europe: The future of audio in sportsInnovative technical solutions for audio production can improve the quality of sports events such as soccer, rugby and American football and provide fans with a better experience. For the 2017/18 English Premier League season, viewers can enjoy all matches in...
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