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Author: Fabrice Marinoni, French Correspondent
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Mediapro takes Téléfoot to the top of football broadcasting in FranceTéléfoot, the new Mediapro and TF1 sports channel showcasing Ligue 1 and some European Championship matches in France, launched in August this year. Built from scratch in just two months, Mediapro is suitably proud of its achievement. SVG Europe recently...
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Media Pro partners with TF1 for new French football channelIn 2018 the Chinese-Spanish company Mediapro secured almost all of the French Ligue 1 Championship rights for a record €780 million per season from 2020 to 2024. Eighty per cent of the Ligue 1 matches including the top games and...
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French football season cancelled: Implications for broadcasters and OB providersIn a speech to the National Assembly Edouard Philippe, the French Prime Minister, announced that the Professional Championships will not resume this season. The Professional Football League (LFP) and the clubs who had hoped to finish the season were caught...
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Live from Paris: AMP Visual TV remotely produces Pro B basketball for RMC SportRemote production trials are carried out regularly in France but for the Pro B clash between Paris Basketball and Aix Maurienne broadcast on Sunday 26 January on RMC Sport, AMP Visual TV delivered a real live remote production that went...
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Tour de France: Immersive innovations help France Télévisions tell the story of each StageJean-Maurice Ooghe is currently directing the 23rd production of the Tour de France for France Télévisions. The early Stages this week are largely benign for the peloton, before heading into the high mountains and individual time trial challenges towards the...
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Euro Media Group’s François-Charles Bideaux discusses latest UHD and remote production innovationsFormerly in charge of sports production at Canal+, François-Charles Bideaux is now co-CEO of Euro Media Group, alongside Patrick Van Den Berg. In this interview with SVG Europe, Bideaux considers EMG’s current approach to sports production and the impact of...
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Live from Paris: VNProd captures intensity of 2018 men’s table tennis World CupTaking place at Disneyland Paris from 19-21 October, the 2018 ITTF men’s World Cup for table tennis brought together the 20 best male players in the world for three days of competition. The host broadcaster for the event was VNProd,...
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Behind the scenes at France’s new highly-specified U ArenaThe U Arena, which opened on 16 October 2017, is a scalable and multipurpose stadium for sports events and concerts and is situated in Nanterre, west of Paris and just behind the Arche de la Défense. It is one of...
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Exploring the French golf production landscape ahead of the Ryder Cup 2018In one year's time, at the end of September 2018, France will host one of the most prestigious golf competitions in the world. Once again the Ryder Cup will feature American and European teams, and will take place at Le...
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Canal+ providing PIQ content enrichment for boxing coverageAs the fierce battle for sports broadcasting rights between the French sports channels continues unabated, boxing has once again become one of the key sports for the pay channel Canal+. “As always we would like to continue to provide our...
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Inside the broadcast production of the Monaco Grand Prix 2017Formula One Management (FOM) produces the world feed for all the Grand Prix championships with one exception – the Monaco Grand Prix, where the international TV feed is overseen by the Automobile Club of Monaco. Euromedia, the production facilities provider,...
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4EVER-2 consortium undertakes HD-HFR test at recent ice hockey fixtureIn a recent landmark development, the 4EVER-2 consortium produced test coverage of an ice hockey game in HD-HFR format at 100fps, and used Dolby AC-4 for the audio. The resulting live coverage was delivered via satellite. Almost five years ago...
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Pétanque in AR: bringing the latest technology to the most “quintessentially French” of sportsLast month l’Equipe broadcast the Pétanque French Cup championship of the game of pétanque, a form of boules and a sport that is quintessentially French. Producers of this year’s event were eager to use an enhanced graphics solution that would...
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Canal+ delivers full UHD production for selected Ligue 1 matchesOnce again, the pay TV channel sector in sports broadcasting has been working to expand its 4K offer to the public. From 29 January, the Ligue 1 football match aired on Sundays at 9pm will be entirely produced and broadcast...
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