The European Broadcasting Union’s executive director of Sport, Stefan Kuerten, has decided to leave the EBU in June next year. Kuerten has been with the EBU for almost 20 years, driving the organisation’s sports rights business, and partnering with members and federations to deliver free-to-air sport to the widest possible audience. Prior to 2017, Kuerten was […] More
Eurovision Services is showcasing its Content Hub here at Sportel. Content Hub provides a way for broadcasters to manage live content, bridging the gap between production and distribution. Michele Gosetti, head of global sales at Eurovision Services, commented: “There are a lot of federations here [at Sportel] and the Hub is a way to provide […] More
Eurovision Media Services (EMS), the business arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), has launched a new service portfolio that includes a range of additional digital utilities such as content personalisation and regionalisation. Announced at Sportel Monaco (22-24 October), the move reflects the need for media organisations and sports federations to keep pace with increasingly elaborate […] More
Sports and news content distributor Eurovision enjoyed a high profile at the recent SVG Europe SportTech event, with the company both sponsoring and chairing a session entitled ‘Going It Alone: How to Launch Your Own OTT Platform’. Whilst Eurovision’s multiplatform solutions manager Louis Matignon oversaw the debate – which involved input from AWS Elemental, WWE, […] More
Eurovision deployed ATEME Kyrion CM3101 encoders and DR8400 decoders for the distribution of major sports events this summer, including the UEFA EURO 2012 championship and the London 2012 Olympic Games. “We have worked with ATEME to bring top quality sports events to the world broadcasting community. They have proven a reliable partner in our mission […] More
EUROVISION and the National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that they have teamed up to transmit live NBA games, NBA TV, and other NBA programming to the league’s international television and digital media partners around the world. The wide-ranging NBA content will be transmitted and available for fans to view throughout the year in HD, […] More
ATEME’s Kyrion CM4101 encoder has been selected by the Eurovision network for MPEG-4 10-bit video transmissions by satellite. This selection – the result of extensive tests conducted by the European Broadcasting Union technical department since 2010 – crowns the maturity of MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit compression just two years after its market introduction by ATEME in […] More
Germany: They think it’s all over, it is now. In what is positively our last Eurovision 2011 story, Jünger Audio is talking about its T*AP Television Audio Processor playing a key part in helping NDR deliver the audio from the contest, including some interesting customisation involving surround dynamics processing in combination with sophisticated loudness control. More
During a meeting in Monaco in 1955, EBU Director Marcel Bezençon (1907-1981) launched the idea of bringing Europe together in a televised, pan-European music competition in the style of the Italian San Remo Festival. At the same time, the Eurovision Grand Prix (as it was named back then) would be an ambitious experiment to broadcast […] More
Germany: More Eurovision! The two organisers of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, EBU and NDR, used a fibre-based MediorNet system from Riedel Communications to distribute video, audio and communications signals at the event. All in all, Riedel installed a versatile system comprising of MediorNet, RockNet, Artist and Performer components, turning the former football stadium into […] More
