Eurovision Services has unveiled a significantly expanded Master Control Room (MCR) in Madrid, creating one of the largest and most capable broadcast facilities of its kind in Europe.

Eurovision Services has operated a broadcast hub in Madrid since 2019 and has been operating at an international level for more than 70 years from Geneva, Washington and Singapore. Building on recent growth, the Madrid MCR is now a full-scale nerve centre for contribution and distribution, capable of handling the volume and complexity that today’s most demanding rights holders require. The Madrid MCR completes the recent completion of a full 2110 customer-led facility at the same location.

Eurovision Services delivers most of the major European football competitions globally, as well as top-tier basketball, athletics, volleyball, and beyond, for rights holders for whom reliability is a contractual baseline.

At its core, the new Madrid MCR is a fully IP-based facility. However, what sets it apart is its hybrid contribution and distribution architecture: the platform supports multimodal delivery via cloud, SRT, fibre, and satellite to service Eurovision Services customers across the globe. 

“Investing in a new master control room allows us to operate our hybrid delivery seamlessly and across geographies. It gives us the scale we need and brings our teams a more consistent, unified way of working,” said Alejandro Sánchez, chief operations officer, Eurovision Services.

The new facility is designed to scale with the demands of an industry that shows no sign of slowing. It is built around workflows and service delivery to keep on improving the quality of the experience.

The scale of the new facility reflects the ambition behind it. The space now operates 16 MCR positions, managing 84 channels and delivering over 15,000 hours of live transmission every month, among the highest-capacity MCRs on the continent. Every element of the infrastructure has been engineered with redundancy, quality of service, and future-proofing in mind.