SVG Europe Sports TV Awards 2022: Shortlist revealed!
SVG Europe is very pleased to announce the names of the entries that have been shortlisted for this year’s Sports TV Awards, sponsored by Canon.
The SVG Europe Sports TV Awards recognise and honour the outstanding companies, teams and individuals that pushed sports broadcasting and production forward within the previous calendar year.
The judges look to reward people, organisations and projects, big or small, that have led by example, experimented, taken risks, overcome the challenges of COVID, and achieved results that can contribute to the continuing forward momentum and success of the industry as a whole.
Awards are bestowed in the following categories:
- Outstanding Production Achievement – Event
- Outstanding Production Achievement – Innovation
- Outstanding OTT or Engagement Experience
- Outstanding Audio Innovation
- One Planet Award for Sustainability in Sports TV
- SVG Europe Women Award for Diversity in Sports TV
The SVG Europe Sports TV Awards 2022 ceremony will take place on Thursday 8 September at the DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam as part of the Sport Production Summit.
SVG Europe editorial director George Bevir said: “We received a huge number of entries this year, from all around Europe, covering a wide range of sports, projects and events, and the quality of those submissions was extremely high, as always. The judges had a torrid time trying to narrow down the entries to a shortlist but they managed it. Thank you to each and every one of them for giving up their time to help us. Congratulations to all those entrants who have made the shortlists. Commiserations to those that didn’t. I look forward to seeing you all and celebrating the best of European sports production and broadcasting at the SVG Europe Sports TV Awards ceremony in Amsterdam on 8 September.”
The full shortlist for 2022 is as follows:
Outstanding Production Achievement – Event
- Aurora Media Worldwide, Extreme E, NEP – Extreme E
- BBC Sport – Tokyo 2020 Olympics
- DFL – 2021 Supercup
- OBS – Tokyo 2020 Olympics
- Sky Sports – The Hundred
- Warner Bros. Discovery – Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Outstanding Production Achievement – Innovation
- Aurora Media Worldwide – Super League Triathlon Arena Games
- Aurora Media Worldwide, Extreme E, NEP – Extreme E
- BT Media & Broadcast – A New Way to Tackle Live Outside Broadcasts
- Gravity Media – ATP Media AWS Proof of Concept
- Sky Sports – The Hundred Avatars
Outstanding OTT or Engagement Experience
- DFL with Sky Germany and Sportec Solutions – Tactical Feed
- Dizplai and BT Sport – Champions League Tonight
- Sky Germany – 5G Use Case In Stadium Experience
- Sky Sports – Boxing Vertical
- WSC Sports – WSC Stories
Outstanding Audio Innovation
- Lawo – A__UHD Core
- Merging Technologies and NEP Australia – Anubis ‘Commentary Unit Mission’
- OBS – Immersive audio coverage for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
- Salsa Sound and BT Applied R&D – MIXaiR – Automated immersive audio production for 5G Edge-XR
- Telos Alliance – Telos Infinity Virtual Intercom Platform
One Planet Award for Sustainability in Sports TV
- Aurora Media Worldwide, Extreme E, NEP – Extreme E
- Blackbird – Decarbonising Video Production At Source
- OBS – Making Sustainable Olympics for Tokyo2020 Olympic Games
- Sky Sports, Sky, Tottenham Hotspur FC and Chelsea FC – Game Zero
- Singular.Live – Sustainability in Live Production
SVG Europe Women Award for Diversity in Sports TV
- Broadcast Academy – Project Access
- Extreme E – The First Gender Equal Motorsport
- Sky Sports – Women’s Super League Football
- Sky Sports – Content Academy
- Whisper – Get Involved
The SVG Europe Sports TV Awards 2022, sponsored by Canon, takes place on Thursday 8 September at the DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam as part of the Sport Production Summit.
AE Live is the official technical partner for the Sports TV Awards graphics.
For more information on the awards, visit: https://www.svgeurope.org/sports-tv-awards-2022/. To register to attend the ceremony go to: https://www.svgeurope.org/sport-production-summit-2022/registration/