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
In conversation with broadcaster and journalist Natalie Quirk, Sky Sports’ Jo Finon and BBC Sport’s Narinder Ball discuss the ‘real world’ benefits and challenges of doing remote production, taking into consideration budgets, environmental sustainability and the work-life balance for crews and ops. “[Remote production] can mean the budget goes further because we’re not sending as […] More
Last week’s FutureSPORT 2019 Summit was another record-breaking event for SVG Europe, with over 350 delegates in attendance at Chelsea Football Club in London. A highlight session in a packed day of content was ‘More than just Technology: Remote Production in the Real World’, which was sponsored by Eurovision Services. Remote production is becoming almost […] More
SVG Europe is supporting a major new initiative devised by the DPP to promote environmentally sustainable practices among broadcast industry suppliers and content providers. The DPP ‘Committed to Sustainability Programme’ provides a self-assessment checklist that enables companies to record their progress in implementing sustainability policies, and awards them a score out of five. Completion of […] More
