WSC Sports is collaborating with professional ice hockey club Red Bull Munich to give fans access to digital highlights that have been automatically created and published using AI, delivering more content, more quickly than previously possible. When the puck drops for the new Deutsche Eishockey Liga (Penny DEL) season this September, four-time winners Red Bull […] More
Broadcast Solutions Nordic has installed a large scale Live Media System at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, the host venue for this year’s Ice Hockey World Championships The Helsinki-based firm was responsible for developing and implementing the live broadcast technology which has, at its heart, a master control room for managing, collecting, editing, and […] More
Viaplay will become home to the National Hockey League (NHL) and KSW mixed martial arts (MMA) in the UK. Up to 1,400 games from the ice hockey league will be shown on Viaplay every year until 2027, alongside 12 high-impact live events from Europe’s leading MMA promotion annually until 2025. Viaplay will launch in the […] More
Investors in Sportway, a new Stockholm-based AI-automated sports video and data production company, have increased their financial support for the company to the tune of 55million Swedisk Krona (€5.4m). The additional money will help the startup to roll out its services to new territories, the company said. Financial backers include leading sports industry figures across […] More
Pixellot and Magyar Jégkorong Szövetség – The Hungarian Hockey Federation – have teamed up to provide full coverage of all top league Hungarian ice hockey matches in the coming season. The deployment of Pixellot systems will augment the TV broadcasts of the federation meaning that not only will all first league games be broadcast, but also […] More
Globecast has partnered with Infront for the delivery of global distribution services for the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, held recently in Riga, Latvia. Globecast provided all of the encoding and connectivity from the site for the contribution path back to London via fibre, along with international distribution of the world feed. Onsite, encoding […] More
Sportway, in partnership with the Czech Ice Hockey Association (CIHA), is set to install live streaming systems in 50 arenas across the Czech Republic, representing Sportway’s first large-scale installation of its artificial intelligence (AI) production systems outside of the Nordics. The CIHA joins the national hockey associations in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway by utilising […] More
The National Hockey League (NHL) is to use the cloud-based video production platform Blackbird to assist with its Return to Play Plan. The NHL’s remote production team will utilise Blackbird’s professional-grade editing toolset to edit and enrich a wide variety of live and produced behind-the-scenes content covering the 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers and 2020 Stanley […] More
Building on their successful collaboration in providing helmet-mounted cameras worn by referees, also known as refcams, for last year’s Champions Hockey League, Movicom and Vislink have announced they have continued to expand their joint line up of ultra-small wireless wearable cameras for use in live sports production. The most well-known refcam kit includes a mini-camera, […] More
With positive league results and rising attendances for its ice hockey matches, Lillehammer Ishockeyklubb (IK) recently approached Danmon Group Norway (Ross Video Diamond Elite partners,) to help improve the quality of the matchday experience for fans inside its Eidsiva Arena. The GET-League team wanted to upgrade the stadium to include video production and drive more […] More
