After a gap of 21 years, live cricket returns to BBC screens on 30 August. As part of a five year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the broadcaster can cover more than 100 hours of cricket each season. The original plan for 2020 was live coverage of one game in each […] More
Italy’s 2019-2020 Serie A kicks off on Saturday 24 August with a match between Parma and Juventus and with coverage provided by Sky Italia. “We’ve been producing Serie A since the birth of Sky Italia in 2003,” explains Dante De lulio, the broadcaster’s director of sport programming and production. “We have always been the key […] More
Earlier this year Eir Sport and RTÉ announced that a sub-licencing agreement had been reached between the two broadcasters in relation to Rugby World Cup 2019. As the primary rights holder for Ireland, Eir Sport will broadcast all 48 games live, including all of Ireland’s matches, and a daily highlights show. The sub-licensing deal means […] More
Germany’s Bundesliga 2019-20 season kicks off tonight (Friday 16 August) with a game between Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin. As usual, broadcast coverage is under the control of Sportcast. In fact, since 2006, Sportcast – as a subsidiary of the DFL (Deutsche Fussball Liga) and as host broadcaster – has been producing, enhancing, distributing, and […] More
Under the terms of its new English Premier League (EPL) contract, which kicks in this month, Sky Sports will cover 128 live and 80 non-live games each season until 2021-22. Included in the output for 2019-20 will be Dolby Atmos sound on live games and an updated augmented reality (AR) studio for presentation. Sky’s new […] More
Mediapro has been producing TV coverage of LaLiga matches for more than 20 years. As host broadcaster, and in agreement with LaLiga, it offers the following to every rights holder: match production, support programmes, graphics, related activities, matchday liaison, on-site facilities accreditation, distribution services and requests, bookings and an online platform. In all, Mediapro sends […] More
UK rights-holding broadcaster ITV Sport began its planning for the 2019 tournament in October 2017 when the first recce in Japan was carried out. “Between then and the first World Broadcast Meeting (WBM) around a year later, we started putting together the production plan for the tournament,” explains Mark Demuth, ITV’s controller of sport, production […] More
Six years ago – on 1 August 2013 – BT Sport was launched. Three years later, and the broadcaster has built a network of multiple linear and digital services with a rights portfolio including live and exclusive coverage of every UEFA Champions League match. For the coming season, Amazon has the rights to show every […] More
As the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan edges closer, SVG Europe gets the inside track on coverage and production plans from Irish rights holder Eir Sport. “It has been on our radar since we secured the rights in 2016 for the World Cup in Japan,” reports Barry Fitzgerald, director of operations, channels, and production […] More
The Call of Duty World League (CWL) is the official eSports league developed around the Call of Duty video game franchise from the publisher Activision. CWL formally launched in December 2015 and is now into its fourth season. The month of May saw the tournament move to London with qualifying heats being staged at the […] More
