European football’s governing body UEFA will launch its own OTT platform later this year, its president has confirmed. Aleksander Čeferin made the announcement on Thursday (7 February) following his re-election for a second four-year term in office. Speaking at the 43rd Uefa Ordinary Congress in Rome, he said that one of the major challenges in the years ahead […] More
TV2 Norway editor Christine Espeland and Host Broadcast Services (HBS) chief technology officer Christian Gobbel are the latest speakers to be added to the line-up for Nordic Summit 2019 which is taking place on 7 March at Media City Bergen. Espeland, who works in strategy and business development at TV2, will take part in the […] More
BT Sport will add High Dynamic Range (HDR) pictures to its sports output later this year and is developing plans for object-based personalisation services. Although details are thin on the ground at this stage, in an announcement about a new connected TV app, the sports broadcaster confirmed that “its customers will be among the first […] More
SIS (Sports Information Services), the supplier of live content and media services to the betting industry, has added Grass Valley’s LiveTouch replay and highlights system to its centralised production workflows for horse racing and greyhound racing coverage. More
DAZN has added a new feature to its sports streaming service that enables viewers to watch up to four live or on-demand events at the same time on one screen. More
The BBC’s public trials of live Ultra HD sports coverage in the summer of 2018 attracted 1.6m requests via iPlayer, the corporation has revealed. Announcing its most-watched iPlayer programmes of 2018, the BBC said that the streams for the World Cup and Wimbledon, which were provided in UHD and with High Dynamic Range (HDR), were […] More
From spider cams and new pundits to podcasts and social clips, the UK’s two biggest terrestrial broadcasters are pulling out all the stops for their shared coverage of the 2019 Six Nations Rugby Championship which starts this evening in Paris. 2019 marks the fourth of a six-year deal between ITV and the BBC that sees […] More
Eleven Sports is to continue its OTT sports streaming service in the UK until at least the end of the current football season after coming to an agreement that will see it relinquish its Serie A and Eredivisie coverage but retain rights to show La Liga. In a statement, the company said that it had strategically chosen […] More
Global Audiovisual, the Spanish production company, is using LiveU wireless streaming technology to aid coverage of second and third division football matches in Spain. Overseen by LiveU’s Spanish partner Park 7, and supported by a network of freelancers and smaller production companies, approximately 80 matches are being streamed to viewers across Spain each week from […] More
