With exactly four years to go until the Opening Ceremony, Channel 4 has today been awarded the UK television rights to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The deal with Channel 4 includes multi-platform broadcast rights within the UK and will see the broadcaster build on its acclaimed coverage of London 2012 and Rio 2016 which […] More
The World Table Tennis (WTT) is building a digital video content archive using technology from Imagen as it looks to preserve decades worth of historic moments from the indoor racket sport. 6,000 hours of exclusive match footage, including more than 9,000 matches spanning as far back as the 1930s, have been digitised and uploaded to […] More
An updated version of the mixed-reality ‘Cube’ presentation studio that was used by Eurosport to great acclaim during its coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics is to be applied to the broadcaster’s US Open and French Open tennis tournament output. The Cube is an interactive studio set that makes use of augmented reality (AR), deep […] More
In an exclusive Q&A, key personnel from TVN Mobile Production discuss the company’s role at the UEFA Europa League Finals tournament in Germany where it helped UEFA to produce the host broadcast world feed and deliver unilateral services on-site. Four months after UEFA announced the suspension of its 2019-20 competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic, […] More
Sky Sports and the English Football League (EFL) have agreed on a new flexible framework that will ensure that all EFL matches are either available for broadcast or streaming while supporter access to stadiums is restricted due to the coronavirus pandemic. The pay-TV broadcaster will show 130 live EFL league matches throughout season 2020-21, kicking-off […] More
Sky Germany will show 68 Bundesliga matches in high dynamic range (HDR) next season after updating the software on its Sky Q set-top boxes. Customers in Germany and Austria with the correct box and TV set who subscribe to the Fußball-Bundesliga package will have the option of watching Saturday evening games plus another game per […] More
The host broadcast coverage of the UEFA Champions League final on 23 August will be as resplendent as ever, complete with 4K HDR pictures and Dolby surround sound and match action captured by a drone and super high-speed, Polecam and in-goal cameras, among other things. To provide an atmosphere in the empty stadium, augmented crowd […] More
Sky has secured a new five-year deal to broadcast the NFL in the UK and Ireland and will launch a dedicated channel to show live matches and other content focussing on the American football league. The agreement, which marks the 25th anniversary of live NFL coverage on Sky Sports, will see ‘Sky Sports NFL’ launch […] More
UEFA has chosen the Mediapro Group as its host broadcast partner for the production and distribution for the world feed of the final phase of this year’s Champions League. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final of the 2019-20 tournament will be played as a final eight straight knock-out tournament in Lisbon, at the Stadium of […] More
LiveScore will live stream Serie A football matches for free on its app in the UK and Ireland again next season after sealing a new rights deal with Premier Sports. The real-time sports updates and OTT streaming service provider will show 306 games from Italy’s top flight in 2020-21 with each feed integrated into its […] More
