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Video: Tour the 154th Open Championship’s IBC with Gravity Media’s Hamish GreigThe 154th Open Championship was a marvel of teamwork as the R&A, European Tour Productions, Gravity Media, NBC Sports, the Golf Channel, Sky Sports, and others collaborated to deliver one of the top golf productions on the calendar. This year, Hamish...
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Gravity Media powers 154th Open Championship productionThe Open Championship is underway at Royal Birkdale in Southport, UK, and Gravity Media and European Tour Productions (ETP) sit at the centre of the TV production, which involves more than 170 cameras of all shapes, sizes, and types, and...
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YouTube transformed the culture of golf. Which sport is next?Rumours of golf’s death were greatly exaggerated. That said, it was a bit worrying for a while. Once Tiger’s peak had passed, the sport once again faced the contention that it was a stuffy, exclusive, corporate pursuit for the professional...
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Golf craft: Ace audio A1s Florian Brown and James Deason on capturing the sound of every albatross from the US Open and Ryder CupGolf is gaining popularity; the 2025 Ryder Cup achieved recordbreaking viewing figures in the UK specifically, with five million fans tuning in, marking a 45% average viewership increase on the 2023 event. Last year's US Open and Ryder Cup tournaments...
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Women’s Open to expand broadcast coverage for 50th anniversary eventThe R&A and American International Group (AIG) have announced extended broadcast hours for the Women’s Open, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary at Royal Lytham & St Annes this summer, 29 July-2 August. For rounds one and two, a new early...
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Chasing Sunday was a big, beautiful risk. Sport needs it to pay off.The PGA Tour wants to make standalone sports documentaries great again after years of identikit docudramas. Chasing Sunday is a fantastic start to that campaign. It’s been a little while since something like Chasing Sunday got made. The PGA Tour’s...
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Live from the 2025 Ryder Cup: NEP Specialty Capture’s president Dan Grainge on taking 5G to new heightsIn the days ahead of a big-time event like the Ryder Cup, the compound is a busy place, with not only the broadcasters but also clients, guests, and, of course, tech-facility providers onsite making sure everything is working well. For...
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Live from the 2025 Ryder Cup: Sky Sports brings enhanced remote workflow with TWiz Hub and UHD HDR coverageIt has been four years since the Sky Sports UK golf production team has been on US soil for a Ryder Cup. But, in that time, the team honed a remote production workflow for golf that was born in the...
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Live from the 2025 Ryder Cup: NEP powers domestic and world feed with IP infrastructure and Supershooter fleetThe Ryder Cup may not have as many golfers as a traditional stroke play tournament but that certainly doesn’t mean it doesn’t require nearly the same amount of technical and production resources. And this year, NEP Group is playing a...
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An inside look as TGL production efforts shift into playoff modeThe playoffs of the inaugural season of TGL begin this week (17 March). For the upstart golf league and TMRW Sports CTO Andrew Macaulay; VP, content/producer, Jeff Neubarth; TGL director Johnathan Evans; and director, engineering, Colin DeFord, it’s a chance to up the coverage...
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Taking golf virtual: TGL competition inspires unconventional golf soundTomorrow’s Golf League (TGL) launched on 7 January with microphones mounted on many of the cameras scattered around the purpose-built SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. The audio production for the event, which fuses advanced tech and live-action,...
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TGL debuts with nearly 70 cameras capturing a new era for golfTuesday 7 January marked the debut of TGL (Tomorrow’s Golf League) with some of the world’s greatest golfers facing off in a two-hour competition in the league’s SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, a 250,000-sq.-ft. venue offering a first...
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PGA Tour enters new era of 1080p HDR production with OB unit overhaulThis weekend (24-27 January 2024) marks the first major step in a new era of PGA TOUR golf production: nine state-of-the-art production trucks, built by NEP Group, will be on-site for CBS Sports, Golf Channel, and PGA Tour Live for...
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The R&A and Sky Sports extend live coverage agreement through to 2028The R&A and Sky Sports have extended their partnership for live coverage of The Open, Women’s Open and elite amateur events through to 2028. The announcement continues a partnership which started in 2016 when The R&A’s professional and amateur championships...
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