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By Will Strauss, Editor | Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 10:12
Sky Sports in the UK and Sky Sport in Germany will show coverage of this season’s Formula 1 motor racing Championship in high dynamic range (HDR) for the first time, it has been announced. The addition to the UHD output will provide viewers with a greater difference between the brightest and darkest parts of an […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 09:34
Former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher will be the special guest at SVG Europe’s live-streamed event The Motorsport Show 2020 which is taking place on Thursday 6 August at 3pm UK time. Chatting alongside Sky Sport Germany director of editorial and digital for live sports Karl Valks, the German racing driver, mentor and Sky Sport […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 09:39
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing six real-time racing statistics for F1 that will be rolled out through the 2020 season. The new data will be generated using a range of AWS services, including machine learning, and will be delivered to viewers as part of the F1 broadcast world feed, and on F1.tv. The hope […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 09:01
Sky Germany has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights to show Formula 1 for the 2021 to 2024 seasons, a deal that will include every minute of each Grand Prix from the first free practice session to the main Sunday race. The contract will see the Sky Sport show all races and most qualifying sessions in […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Friday, March 20, 2020 - 17:08
Formula 1 has launched a new eSports Virtual Grand Prix series, featuring a number of current F1 drivers, that will run in place of races that were due to take place between now and May. The series has been created to enable fans to continue watching F1 races virtually despite the ongoing COVID-19 situation that […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director | Friday, February 14, 2020 - 09:41
The third annual International Federations Summit (IFS), produced by Major Events International (MEI) in association with SVG Europe, brought together dozens of federations and executives from related technology providers for a day of information exchange and learning in Lausanne. The focus of the event was to help attendees understand the current state of the federations […]
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By | Friday, November 22, 2019 - 17:47
It is a fascinating time in the world of sports, with digital platforms enabling a complete reinvention in the way fans engage with the action and their heroes, writes Mehul Kapadia, global head of marketing, Tata Communications. Rights holders, broadcasters, sponsors and others in the sports ecosystem are capitalising on these innovations in several ways […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 10:03
Gearhouse Broadcast is providing a bespoke flyaway production system for Whisper Films’ highlights coverage of this year’s F1 motor racing season for Channel 4. For each of the 21 Grand Prix races during the 2019 World Championship, the technical facilities firm is making available Sony PMW-X500 cameras, Canon broadcast lenses, Motorola digital radios, Audio Assist […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 12:17
Eleven Sports has extended its rights agreement with Formula 1 in Poland to the end of the 2022 season, a deal that also includes the rights to show Formula 2 and Formula 3 and the Porsche Supercup Series. The extended deal will allow Eleven Sports to show every F1 race weekend exclusively live throughout the […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 12:21
Formula 1 has agreed a new two-year deal with Sky Deutschland that will see the German broadcaster show all F1 Grand Prix weekends live in Germany and Austria for seasons 2019 and 2020. The move, which also includes German-language rights in Switzerland, follows a one-year hiatus that saw Sky Deutschland withdraw from Formula 1 stating that it […]
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