LaLiga has announced that its new UK-based channel, LaLigaTV, is available from this week via Premier Sports’ channels on Sky TV, as a standalone offering on Sky TV, and it has now stated that it is also available as of this week on Virgin TV. The association, which is responsible for Spain’s two professional football […] More
Lance Gordon, owner of San Antonio-based Soundcheck Technologies, talks about his career, mixing eSports and combat sports, and using Calrec audio gear. Can you provide some background on who you are and what you do? As a freelance audio engineer and co-owner of Soundcheck Technologies, I have worked with some of the biggest rock bands […] More
Gravity Media has promoted its former managing director of Gearhouse Broadcast UK, Ed Tischler, to the position of acting managing director of the larger, merged brand. In this new role, Tischler will be responsible for the strategic direction and commercial performance of all Gravity Media’s UK-based operations, which include Media Services & Facilities, Production & […] More
ICC TV, working with Sunset+Vine, will be responsible for the host coverage of the Under 19 Cricket World Cup which starts on Friday (17 January 2020) in South Africa. The in-house division of the International Cricket Council will produce 20 of the 48 scheduled 50-over matches live with short-form digital highlights packages put together for […] More
The future stars of rugby will converge on Italy for the 13th edition of the World Rugby U20 Championship from 28 June to 18 July, 2020 after World Rugby and the Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) announced the schedule. The world’s 12 best teams will compete across five match days in northern Italy, bidding to succeed […] More
United and NEP are joining forces for the multi-camera production of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. As a result of a European tender, both media parties have been commissioned by the NOS to take care of the technical production support, including all technical facilities, crew and equipment, for the three live shows from Rotterdam Ahoy. […] More
Blizzard Entertainment is one of the busiest entities in esports. Whether driving the competitions of the Overwatch League or handling productions of BlizzCon, the company’s largest event that promotes its biggest gaming franchises, the calendar is filled with plenty of large-scale events. At last month’s SVG Summit in New York, SVG associate editor Kristian Hernandez […] More
ITN Productions has signed on as a sponsor of the International Federations Summit, an event produced by Major Events International (MEI) in partnership with SVG Europe. The event will be held 12-13 February in Lausanne and is designed to support knowledge transfer and best practices among international federations in order to mitigate future risk, minimise […] More
Former Eurosport senior vice president of sports content and production Emir Osmanbegovic has launched a Nordic sports division for the Stockholm and Oslo-based multi-genre production company Nexiko. As both chief executive and founder of Nexiko Sport, Osmanbegovic (pictured) is taking the independently-owned production company into the sports content market for the first time, working on […] More
SVG Europe is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the third dedicated Nordic Summit, in collaboration with NCE Media. Nordic Summit 2020 will take place on Thursday 12 March 2020 at Media City in Bergen, Norway. The programme will feature a mixture of presentations and panel discussions with a particular emphasis on […] More
