The UK’s TV and film industry is putting in place a £3m action plan to help tackle a mental health “crisis” within its workforce. The Whole Picture Programme, which will launch in April, will see an industry-led Film and TV Task Force on Mental Health work closely with experts in mental health to provide a […] More
Presenter Sarra Elgan and a panel of engineers and educators debate what needs to be done to bring more women into engineering careers within sports broadcasting and to develop the educational tracts to get them there. The discussion looks at how the industry can get more women into STEM roles, the disparity between that desire […] More
Blackbird has been named as the Official Cloud Video Production Partner of SVG Europe. The agreement, which runs for the duration of 2020, will see SVG Europe use Blackbird’s cloud video editing platform to rapidly edit and package video clips of seminars, presentations and interviews from its events and publish them to social media channels. […] More
France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) used last weekend’s Ligue 1 game between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Olympique Lyonnais to deploy the True View immersive viewing experience for the first time. True View, developed by Intel, allows a broadcaster to replay and freeze sporting action from various angles by creating a 360-degree volumetric version of […] More
The Nordic Entertainment (NENT) Group has extended its exclusive pan-Nordic media rights deal to show live matches from the Bundesliga until 2025. Under the new agreement, NENT Group will show more than 300 live Bundesliga games on its Viaplay streaming service every season and screen selected games on its linear TV channels. The deal also […] More
The Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) has started the tender process for the next round of domestic media rights to show live coverage of the Bundesliga. The awarded contracts will run from season 2021-22 to 2024-25 and cover matches in the Bundesliga, Bundesliga 2, the Supercup and the relegation play-offs. The rights cover Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, […] More
The full conference programme for Nordic Summit 2020, sponsored by Vizrt, has now been confirmed. Produced in collaboration with NCE Media, Nordic Summit 2020 will take place on Thursday 12 March 2020 at Media City in Bergen. The programme will feature a mixture of region-specific presentations and panel discussions with a particular emphasis on providing […] More
Rise, the advocate group for gender diversity within the broadcast manufacturing and services sector, has launched the search for candidates to take part in its third annual mentoring scheme. The UK based programme will work with 20 mentees from the following sectors of the broadcast industry – operations, engineering, sales, marketing and business. The mentoring […] More
The English Premier League (EPL) is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer OTT streaming service that will stand alongside its broadcast rights packages, its new chief executive has said. According to a report in the UK newspaper the Daily Mail, Richard Masters has indicated that the plan for the service is already well underway, although no […] More
In a conversation recorded at BT Sport in London, presenter Sarra Elgan talks to SVG Europe editor Heather McLean about SVG Europe Women: its origins, the new advisory board and where the initiative is going next. “There is always more we can do. The important thing is to make changes and be proactive. It’s not […] More
