Gravity Media has just signed a brand new three-year deal to produce Matchnight Services for UEFA across their major club competitions: the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League. The deal includes highlights programming, digital content, commentaries, and a live instant highlights show for all UEFA’s rights holding broadcasters. […] More
The amount of passion both on and around the course during a Ryder Cup is unique in the world of golf and arguably all sports. It also gives rights holders like NBC Sports and Sky Sports the ability to tilt the emotions and coverage toward their home fans. But what about the world feed? David […] More
The NEP Group is front and centre at the Ryder Cup, with 20 scanners and more than 50 technicians representing not only the core NEP production truck fleet but also BSI, Fletcher, and Bexel. And all of those entities are working hand in hand with NBC Sports, the PGA TOUR, and IMG, European Tour Productions, […] More
After a 12-month hiatus, the 2020 Ryder Cup begins today (Friday 24 September) as Team USA and Team Europe square off at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. It’s not only a significant and much-anticipated sporting event, but it also marks the first Ryder Cup where Sky Sports and NBC Sports are part of the same […] More
After a 12-month hiatus, SPORTEL Monaco will be back from 5 to 7 October, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. It will be the first 2021 international convention 100 per cent live and in-person to reconnect and reunite the international sports media and technology industry. SPORTEL says is time to rebuild and reshape the industry […] More
When NBC Olympics began its efforts to keep more of the production team out of Tokyo, NBC Olympics VP, IT, Dan Robertson and his team helped the organisation shift into overdrive to create policies ranging from how the networks are shared and managed to who has access to what type of network. The good news, […] More
Olympics competitions are all about records on the field and the rights holders like NBC Olympics are doing their best to set some records as well. Take the transmission paths that NBC Olympics has deployed to connect Tokyo to the US “We have 80Gbps of connectivity between here and the US,” says Chris Connolly, NBC […] More
Panasonic’s Kairos next-generation IT and IP video-processing platform is helping broadcasters bring the excitement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to the world. Kairos is a software-based, open-architecture platform that uses CPU and GPU processing to significantly improve broadcast performance. More
Every NBC Olympic effort sees massive changes and advances with respect to file-based workflows, editing and more. Toss in UHD, HDR and immersive audio and those advances are even more challenging and, ultimately, impressive. Darryl Jefferson, NBC Olympics VP, broadcast operations and technology, and Jim Miles, NBC Olympics, director, digital workflow systems, discussed the multi-continent, timezone and […] More
When German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF originally planned out their Tokyo Olympics plans, they included a studio with a view to Rainbow Bridge and a control room for the studio as well as edit facilities and more. The studio location is shared with Austria’s ORF and Switzerland’s SRG (each has their own studio), is […] More
