IMG has announced that former Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, has joined the business as executive vice president, head of global production, to lead IMG’s production business into a new era. Francis, who will start in early November, is widely respected as a creative and innovative executive largely responsible for establishing Sky Sports as […] More
IMG has added to its senior leadership team at Premier League Productions (PLP) with two new appointments. Gus Williamson, former head of rugby union at Sky Sports, joins as director of programming and Mike Norrish becomes director of digital & creative, having held a similar role at BT Sport. Nick Morgan, managing director of PLP […] More
The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) has appointed IMG to assist in distributing global media rights for its flagship event The Collins Cup, in addition to future PTO-owned events for the next three years. The Collins Cup is a first-of-its-kind global annual competition which will see teams of professional triathletes from the US, Europe and the […] More
Graham Fry has been appointed executive chairman, production, in recognition of his leadership and contribution to the business. He will complete his career at IMG and play a key role in helping the business transition to new leadership before the end of 2022. Fry joined IMG in 1991 and has been managing director, production worldwide, […] More
IMG and Panasonic Avionics Corporation have extended their partnership, making IMG’s Sport 24, the live 24/7 sports channel for the in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) industry, available to all airlines worldwide. Panasonic will market both Sport 24 and its sister channel Sport 24 Extra to airlines using other connectivity networks for the first time, enabling […] More
SVG Europe is pleased to announce more speakers for the Sports Production Leaders Briefings panels, part of the Sport Production & Technology Summit 2020. Sky Deutschland’s vice president of sports production and SVG Europe chair, Alessandro Reitano, will be joining the panel of broadcasters and over the top (OTT) providers taking place on Tuesday 15 […] More
SVG Europe Women is pleased to announce a new speaker for the initiative’s first virtual event, being held on Zoom at 4pm on 6 May. Ruth Lilley, freelance sports content producer, will speak about her tumultuous year, which marked her return as an independent in the sports broadcasting industry after almost two years working at […] More
At SVG Europe’s Football Summit 2020 in Berlin on 31 March, IMG, Premier League Productions and Orange Sports & Media will be on stage discussing how football leagues and clubs can make better use of their video assets. The session, titled ‘Is this a library? How football can make better use of its video assets’, […] More
The successful execution of a 20,000 km remote link from cameras based in Telstra’s Tokyo office to IMG Studios’ London headquarters has been achieved, creating what is considered to be one of the longest true remote IP production connections to date. The Tokyo-to-London link used Grass Valley’s DirectIP to deliver uncompressed, ultra-low latency video via […] More
IMG Studios delivers multiple 24-hour sports channels and enables coverage of some of the world’s biggest sporting events, often having to shoehorn in new projects to tight deadlines. So, in planning its next infrastructure upgrade, for installation in the Summer, ease of scalability is its first priority – which has led it to IP. It […] More
