Sky Sports’ live fan-led YouTube series ‘The Football Social’ will be the subject of a special session at SportTech 2019 on 22 May. ‘The Football Social’ is a reactive chat show that is streamed live via YouTube and Facebook on a Saturday afternoon and during big mid-week matches. covering both club games and internationals. Developed […] More
Deltatre is to continue using Forbidden Technologies’ cloud video platform Blackbird to create sports clips and highlights for a further twelve months, it has been announced. Deltatre uses Blackbird for the fast turn-around of long and short-form game highlights and clips for a wide range of sports including rugby, cycling and athletics. Once clipped, edited […] More
Gearhouse Broadcast is providing a bespoke flyaway production system for Whisper Films’ highlights coverage of this year’s F1 motor racing season for Channel 4. For each of the 21 Grand Prix races during the 2019 World Championship, the technical facilities firm is making available Sony PMW-X500 cameras, Canon broadcast lenses, Motorola digital radios, Audio Assist […] More
French sports channel L’Equipe has installed two new audio consoles from Calrec and is using them for live mixing and commentary across cycling, biathlons, rallying, judo, and the Pétanque Championships. A 36+8 Summa and a Brio36 have been added to the main and secondary control rooms within L’Equipe’s two studios. Alexis Bougault, audio technical manager […] More
BBC Sport younger audiences editor Amy Williams will provide delegates at SportTech 2019 (22 May, Lord’s) with an insight into the technological and editorial innovations that the corporation is employing to attract a new generation of sports viewer. In a session called ‘Interactive, Social, Instant: How BBC Sport is Targeting a New Generation of Sports […] More
The video division of T&M company Tektronix has been sold to the owners of fellow broadcast equipment vendor Telestream in an undisclosed deal. The agreement will see Tektronix Video absorbed into Telestream, supplementing the latter’s product range and significantly extending both its R&D capabilities and its sales reach. Tektronix Video, headquartered in Oregon, has sales […] More
The Racecourse Media Group (RMG) has renewed its agreement with Timeline Television for studio and MCR facilities provision, extending the deal by a further five years. The contract extension includes upgrades to the facility at Timeline’s Ealing Broadcast Centre, a complex built by Timeline back in 2012. The overhauled facility will include five production galleries […] More
The DAZN Group has launched a global, live sports content distribution service for rights holders, broadcasters and media partners. Called DAZN Connect, the new service will use IP and video transport technologies to allow users to distribute and receive live content The service will kick off supplying various broadcasters including BT Sport, Iqiyi, NBC Sports, […] More
Sunset+Vine has been awarded a three-year contract to produce live and digital coverage of the Mercedes Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup for Red Bull Media House. Within the terms of the contract, the London-based production company will be responsible for bespoke programming for Red Bull TV and for the creation of content for the […] More
Speakers from Sky Sports, Canal Plus, ITN Productions and Input Media will take part in a masterclass session at next month’s SportTech 2019 (22 May, Lord’s) that will focus on creating and distributing sports highlights and clips for social media and the web. In ‘Perfecting Your Short Game’, a panel will consider different platforms, sports […] More
