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    Premier League rights sold to BT, BSkyB for £3bn
    BT has secured the rights to broadcast live Premier League games for the first time, securing the rights to 38 matches a season from 2013-14 to 2015-16, according to BBC News. BSkyB will continue to show the bulk of games,...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 13 Jun, 2012 • 1 minute read
  • Around The Industry
    Gearhouse Broadcast taps Harris Backbone for Sky Formula 1 coverage
    International systems-integration company Gearhouse Broadcast has installed Harris signal processing and conversion technology to provide the backbone of a new mobile HD production facility being used by British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) to televise the 2012 Formula 1 motor-racing championship. Amongst...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 22 May, 2012 • 1 minute read
  • News Roundup
    HHB highlighting audio role at Sky Studios
    It may have its doors well and truly open but its launch is still making waves: leading broadcast audio equipment supplier, HHB Communications Ltd. was chosen by Sky to provide audio equipment for the broadcaster’s multimillion pound new production facility,...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 12 Apr, 2012 • 2 minute read
  • Headlines
    Eurosport and Sky ink Olympic 3D deal
    Eurosport, the pan-European rights holder of the London 2012 Olympics, is planning on broadcasting more than 100 hours of 3D action from London 2012 and has just announced a deal with BSkyB that will see Sky 3D in the UK...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 5 Apr, 2012 • 3 minute read
  • Headlines
    BBC offers 24 HD channels of Olympic coverage, Sky snaps it up
    The BBC has announced that it will make its twenty-four, HD-quality, live Olympic streams available to cable and satellite providers, on a non-exclusive basis, for the duration of the Olympic Games. And BSkyB was the first broadcaster to immediately say...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 3 Apr, 2012 • 2 minute read
  • Headlines
    New 3ality Technica software impresses at Sky
    Sky Sports used the new 3ality Technia software systems, IntelleCal which automates rig alignment and IntelleCam which does the same for convergence, live and in anger on Arsenal’s recent 5-2 demolition of Spurs. The verdict? Quietly impressed by the sound...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 14 Mar, 2012 • 3 minute read
  • Headlines
    Sky F1 HD on the starting grid
    With a week to go till the start of this year’s Formula One season, Sky Sports is launching its eagerly anticipated one Sky F1 HD – an entire channel with web, interactive and second-screen support dedicated to the sport. It’s...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 8 Mar, 2012 • 6 minute read
  • News Roundup
    dB Broadcast awarded additional studio project at Sky Studios
    Cambridge-based independent system integrator dB broadcast, has recently received a major studio order as part of BSkyB’s continuing development of their state-of-the-art production and broadcasting facility in Osterley, West London. The Sky Studios building, initially comprising of five studios, opened...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 6 Feb, 2012 • 2 minute read
  • Headlines
    Sky debuts modular 3D flypack
    Sky 3D has started making use of a brand new modular flypack system. Designed specifically for stereo 3D work by Sky in collaboration with ONSIGHT and Sony’s Professional Services division, it should ease some of the pressure on the company’s...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 1 Feb, 2012 • 2 minute read
  • Headlines
    Sky posts bumper figures & extends ECB deal
    A busy day for the UK’s BSkyB which, along with unveiling some fairly astonishing figures for the last quarter of 2011, also announced that it had locked down the rights to live international and county cricket under a new deal...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 31 Jan, 2012 • 3 minute read
  • Headlines
    Dispute curtails Indian cricket coverage
    Anyone attempting to watch the first India vs England one day international from Hyderabad this morning had an interesting 15 minutes, as a dispute between broadcasters and the Indian cricket board meant that the international feed was shut off. Details...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 14 Oct, 2011 • 1 minute read
  • News Roundup
    Mistika adds Equaleyes, gets royal approval
    SGO Mistika has added a new feature, Equaleyes, to its toolset, which the company says provides fully automated functions for correcting discrepancies between left and right images, caused by differences in cameras, lenses and stereo rig systems. BSkyB, for one,...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 13 Jun, 2011 • 3 minute read
  • Headlines
    BSkyB deploys new stereo-3D technology for Champions League Final
    BSkyB used the occasion of Saturday’s Champions League Final between Manchester United and Barcelona to debut three Sony developments in stereoscopic-3D production technology, writes UK Correspondent, Will Strauss. As 3D host broadcaster of the Wembley event, the British pay-TV company...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 1 Jun, 2011 • 4 minute read
  • News Roundup
    Sky Sports and ITV secure Champions League till 2015
    UK: UEFA has announced the renewal of media rights agreements for the UEFA Champions League 2012-15 in the United Kingdom, with the coverage being jointly awarded to ITV and Sky Sports. Free-to-air commercial broadcaster ITV has secured exclusive rights to...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 28 Apr, 2011 • 2 minute read

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