Timeline TV is supporting Whisper on its production of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 for BBC Sport. As part of the contract, sustainability is a significant focus for BBC Sport, and an aspect that Whisper and Timeline TV are embracing. Much of the crew for the production are based at Timeline TV’s broadcast centre in […] More
BBC Sport is gearing up to show more than 200 hours of action across up to 11 live streams to provide comprehensive coverage of the Commonwealth Games 2022, which is taking place in Birmingham, UK. Beginning on 28 July, all the drama and excitement will broadcast across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three, with […] More
BT Sport no longer holds the exclusive rights to the UEFA Champions League in the UK, but it has secured the rights to the majority of the League’s games, plus all the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Europa Conference League exclusively live for a further three seasons, including highlights and in-match clips, to 2027. […] More
Sky Sports is celebrating a BAFTA win for its Formula One coverage of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the 2022 British Academy Television Awards. Sky partnered with Formula 1 and Channel 4 to make Sky Sports’ live coverage of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix available to the nation, ensuring millions of Formula 1 fans […] More
A team of world-leading sports broadcasters, rights owners and technology vendors, comprising BBC Sport, BT Sport, Sky Sport, Premier League Productions and international rights holders NBCUniversal and SuperSport, have come together with the English Premier League, IMG/Premier League Productions and albert (BAFTA’s initiative to support more sustainable production) to reveal the initial results from an English […] More
BBC Sport is unveiling a new virtual reality (VR) studio for its coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics that will take viewers from a mountainside log cabin to a virtual ski resort, and beyond. Rights holding broadcasters at this year’s Games are restricted from being able to roam the local area with camera crews, preventing […] More
When the Olympics was cancelled last year, Ron Chakraborty, lead executive, major events at BBC Sport, had to decide whether to continue to plan for a rescheduled Games by sending an entire OB team or do it remotely. Having deployed remote galleries for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics and for the Commonwealth Games on Australia’s […] More
An advanced virtual set graphics ecosystem from Vizrt has helped convert a simple studio into BBC Sport’s ‘Pres 2’ set and a home studio for BBC Sport in Salford, UK. John Murphy, creative director and head of graphics for sport at the BBC, said: “We had a small studio space at Media City which was […] More
It has been non-stop action at dock10 this summer, and that’s not just the sport on the TV. BBC Sport has produced coverage for both the Euros and the Olympics from the Salford facility, with dock10 hosting the tentpole events through a combination of virtual sets, infrastructure upgrades, massive fibre roll out, working closely with […] More
BBC Sport is producing more limited Summer Olympics coverage this year with two live events shown at any one time, compared to previous years, where it gave the British public full and immersive coverage of every moment of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Those two streams are also, in another first for the broadcaster, being […] More
