Eurosport has renewed its long-standing media partnership with MotorSport Vision Racing in a deal that will see it show coverage of the Bennetts British Superbike (BSB) Championship for a further seven years, effective from 2021. Coverage will be broadcast Europe-wide with a selection of races also made available live free-to-air in the UK on the […] More
Representatives of Sky, BT Sport, Sportcast, Mediapro and Ekstraklasa Live Park will all take part in next week’s Football Sumit 2020 online, sponsored by EVS. Football Summit 2020 (18 June 2020, 3pm UK time) will explore how sports broadcasters are attacking the re-started football season and beyond as matches are played behind closed doors and […] More
The virtualisation of supporters inside stadiums and simulated crowd audio, as well as new camera positions, will be used when coverage of LaLiga returns on Thursday 11 June. With matches being played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the innovations will help to replicate and make up for the lack of, natural ambience […] More
Both Sky Sports and BT Sport will give TV viewers the chance to hear fake crowd noise during matches and to watch games with friends in a virtual environment when the Premier League returns to UK screens later this month. With all matches being played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic, the two […] More
In what was originally a live online Q&A, Anna Chanduvi, Sports Media Partnerships at Facebook, takes a look at how sports broadcasters and leagues and federations can use, and work with, Facebook both during the lockdown and beyond. The session covers best practice, use cases, Facebook as the ‘free-to-air funnel’ and niche sports as well […] More
Mediapro will launch a pay-TV channel in France in August after signing a four-year, renewable partnership with the TF1 Group. The new Téléfoot service will show eight live Ligue 1 fixtures and eight live Ligue 2 fixtures per match week, once the season starts. The move follows Mediapro’s €780m per-season purchase of eight Ligue 1 […] More
The Premier League has agreed to a new provisional restart date for the 2019-20 season and announced that all the remaining matches will be shown live on television in the UK. Fixtures will resume on Wednesday 17 June, provided that all safety requirements are in place, with Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Manchester City […] More
LTN Global, the media technology and video transport network solutions company, has launched a terrestrial IP-based distribution solution designed as an alternative to satellite distribution. LTN Wave brings together LTN’s transport, monitoring and control solutions to enable broadcast quality multicast distribution over IP. The new offering is said to provide customers with access to the […] More
With the coronavirus impacting on every part of the OTT business, Eleven Sports has had to take a very different approach to its output. In this interview, chief operating officer Anouk Mertens discusses how and why Eleven has been focussing on Esports, exploring new formats and archive programmes and using Skype-style tools like Watch Together […] More
SVG Europe presented its Sports TV Awards 2020 on Wednesday 27 May in an ‘as live’ ceremony on Youtube. You can now watch a re-run of the ceremony right here on the SVG Europe website. The Sports TV Awards 2020 were presented by Abi Stephens. More
