All 886 matches from Roland-Garros will be available live on Warner Bros. Discovery’s discovery+ and the Eurosport app, the broadcaster has stated today. The first tournament production of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports’ new multi-year agreement with the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), an event first broadcast by Eurosport in 1989, is going even further to […] More
Host Broadcast Services (HBS) has just completed its first Grand Slam at Roland Garros as the new host broadcaster alongside partner, Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), managing the first event of the three year agreement with confidence. This year the FFT put itself in control of the broadcast of the event, ramping up both the […] More
Discovery is set to become the first Premium Broadcaster of the Roland Garros tournament, in a new agreement announced today that runs till 2026. Following the invitation to tender issued on 13 April 2021, the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) and Discovery have outlined the official agreement for exclusive broadcasting rights to the next five […] More
The French Open is taking place once again at Roland Garros in Paris, yet it is all change for this Grand Slam. 2021 sees the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) and its new host broadcaster, HBS, taking the production over from France Télévisions for the first time, as well as bringing in a plethora of […] More
For the first time in its 130-year history, the French Open has gone night-owl. Stade Roland Garros is hosting night sessions at this year’s tournament, and Tennis Channel is bringing all seven nights of evening matches to U.S. audiences as part of its 340 hours of TV coverage during the 15-day event. With the new […] More
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has announced an invitation to tender (ITT) for the audio-visual rights for the Roland-Garros tournament in more than 50 European countries. Candidates are invited to submit bids for four editions (2022-2025) and five editions (2022-2026) of the tournament. The tournament currently benefits from extensive coverage in Europe thanks to airtime […] More
Amazon has announced its presentation team set to bring the next Roland Garros tennis tournament to global screens. Taking place from 17 May to 6 June, Roland Garros is set to be Amazon’s first live broadcast of a sporting event in France. It has pulled together a team of French former players to be the […] More
Netherlands-based software start-up Lean And Mean Audio (Lama) introduced its AutoMix solution at this year’s French Open at Roland Garros, broadcast by Eurosport across continental Europe from 21 September to 11 October. Lama AutoMix is an intelligent software solution that allows broadcasters to combine multiple audio signals and automatically create a well-balanced mix. Signals from […] More
Following its postponement in March the main tournament of the delayed 2020 French Open tennis at Roland-Garros commences this Sunday with broadcaster Eurosport adapting its innovative Cube presentation following success at the recent US Open. Eurosport head of graphics and innovation Alex Dinnin told SVG Europe, “In the same way as the US Open, understandably broadcasters […] More
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has decided to produce Roland-Garros by itself from 2021 onwards. Following this decision, FFT is now launching a tender in order to select what it refers to as a ‘producteur délégué’ for FFT events (Roland-Garros and other events) from 2021 to 2023. The FFT has informed SVG Europe that is […] More
