In the lead-up to the Sports TV Awards ceremony on Wednesday 27 May, SVG Europe is profiling all of the projects that have been nominated for an award. Today we are focussing on the shortlist for the One Planet Award for Sustainability in Sports TV. The One Planet Award recognises and rewards individuals, companies, projects […] More
With environmental sustainability in mind, Genelec is offering its customers the option of a special RAW aluminium colour finish on a selection of the models in its Studio, AV and Home Audio ranges. All the models feature the Minimum Diffraction Enclosure (MDE) design, developed by Genelec in close collaboration with industrial designer Harri Koskinen, and […] More
BT Sport has joined the Albert directorate as part of its continuing efforts to become the UK’s greenest broadcaster. Albert is a collaborative BAFTA, indie and broadcaster backed project that was set-up in 2011 to bring the screen industries together to tackle their environmental impact and inspire sustainable living. The commissioning directorate supports the development […] More
After an 18-month break, SVG Europe returns with a revamped and re-imagined awards ceremony, celebrating sports broadcasting and production across Europe. Moving from its former home at the Sports Production Summit in Amsterdam to the Sports OTT Forum in London (27 May 2020), the tightly focussed SVG Europe Sports TV Awards 2020 will continue […] More
The DPP has revealed the first average score for participants in its Committed to Sustainability programme – and it’s a good start, one that suggests many positives, but it is also a score that highlights that there is still work to be done before TV production and broadcasting can transition to a net-zero carbon and […] More
Sky has announced plans to go net-zero for carbon emissions across its entire value chain by the year 2030, a move that will see the pay-TV broadcaster reduce the emissions created from the use of its products and by its suppliers as well as by its own internal business units. The strategy includes: making all […] More
Red Bee is looking to make its Hilversum data centre, the Media Gateway, more environmentally sustainable by powering it with electricity from a green energy supplier. The Media Gateway (pictured) is a 1400 square metre carrier-neutral data centre, located in the Media Park Hilversum, near Amsterdam, that services a large number of public and commercial […] More
Creative Technology London has invested in VOLTstack 5k Power units by Portable Electric, in association with Green Voltage, as it looks to further reduce its carbon footprint. The portable method of supplying temporary power on-site has the benefits of producing no noise, requiring no fuel and emitting zero emissions. VOLTstack can work alongside or completely […] More
By Brian Clark, director of sales, NEP UK, Donald Begg, director of technology, NEP UK, and Ben Tompsett, head of broadcast at Creative Technology Looking ahead at 2020 and beyond, one of the things we see is that remote production is going to become more mainstream. The production model is maturing all the time and, […] More
Following the launch of its ‘Committed to Sustainability Programme’, DPP managing director Mark Harrison sat down with SVG Europe to outline the reasons behind the intervention and to discuss the positive impact that media and technology companies working in all genres of television, including sport, can make. In November 2019, the DPP launched a major […] More
