“Welcome to the Worlds, but not as we know it,” says Andy Holmes, senior production manager at Sky Sports, wearing a mask and talking over Zoom from the TV compound and Great Hall of Alexandra Palace in London at the half-way point of the PDC World Darts Championship finals. In a normal world, Sky Sports […] More
Matchroom Sport is to launch a global OTT platform offering access to a portfolio of live and on-demand sports content including coverage of darts, pool and snooker. Built and powered by sports streaming and video technology company StreamAMG, Matchroom Live will feature 12 sports in total and will be made available online and via native […] More
Ahead of the recent William Hill PDC World Darts Championship, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) partnered with Grabyo to deliver an agile content proposition in real-time across its digital channels. With the closure of SnappyTV, which is now part of Twitter’s Media Studio, PDC needed the ability to capture every twist and turn from the […] More
In terms of broadcast technology deployed per sporting square metre, perhaps only snooker rivals darts, as Sky Sports’ recent coverage of the PDC Ladbrokes World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace in London proves. Then again, when the BBC started broadcasting from the venue in the 1930s, those working for it probably never envisaged a 22 […] More
