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    Inside the game: Sky Sports at the PDC World Championships
    In terms of broadcast technology deployed per sporting square metre, perhaps only snooker rivals darts, as Sky Sports’ recent coverage of the PDC Ladbrokes World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace in London proves. Then again, when the BBC started broadcasting...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 9 Jan, 2012 • 3 minute read
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    Sky widens Events Centre coverage
    deltatre and Opta have been highlighting their work on the Sky Sports Event Centre's coverage of Heineken Rugby, which sees the broadcaster's website integrate deltatre's DIVA HD player with Opta Sports' events data. We wrote about this before when Sky...
    By: SVG Staff • Posted on: 12 Dec, 2011 • 2 minute read
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    Sky to launch dedicated F1 channel
    Sky Sports is upping the ante for broadcasters all over Europe by planning an entire, dedicated Formula One channel when it starts broadcasting the series in March 2012, operating advert free (during races at least) on TV, online and mobile....
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 29 Nov, 2011 • 2 minute read
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    Sky tests Sony’s 3D wireless camcorder
    Sky Sports has embarked on a testing programme looking at the capabilities of Sony’s TD300 3D wireless camera. Using a RF Link provided by Broadcast RF, the camera’s been trotted out for the 4 Nations Rugby League series in particular...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 22 Nov, 2011 • 3 minute read
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    Eurosport and Sky pick up plaudits at Promax
    Eurosport's rebranding campaign from April was awarded silver in the Best TV/Video Campaign international category at last week's gala PromaxBDA Sports Media Marketing Summit in New York, while Sky picked up a silver gong too for its The Ashes 2010...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 22 Nov, 2011 • 2 minute read
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    BBC, NBC and others to rely on deltatre data for 2012
    A whole raft of deltatre technology, from its DIVA platform and on to specialist data-driven services, will be front and centre for Olympic coverage from the BBC, NBC, CTV Olympics and South America’s Terra. Sky Sports, meanwhile, is expanding the...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 16 Nov, 2011 • 4 minute read
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    Sky tackles Heineken Cup’s opening weekend
    The first weekend of European rugby’s premier tournament, the Heineken Cup, presents a daunting logistical challenge for Sky as it produces the coverage of nine of the opening round’s dozen games across the UK and Ireland. The fixture list hasn’t...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 11 Nov, 2011 • 3 minute read
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    First equine 3D shoot for Sky
    The sixty third running of the Horse of the Year Show, which provides the finale to the showing year and the climax to the domestic show jumping year in the UK, is also the first to be captured in stereo...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 7 Oct, 2011 • 3 minute read
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    CTV’s long summer of cricket
    Weather permitting, the Fourth Test starts today as England take on India at The Oval in London. Cricket, especially the five-day long Test match version, might seem the most genteel of sports, but Hamish Greig, Technical Director at CTV which...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 18 Aug, 2011 • 3 minute read
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    BBC and Sky to share F1 coverage
    UK: Just in case you were on holiday like we were at the tail end of last week, it was announced to much general surprise that Sky and the BBC will share the joint rights for Formula One coverage in...
    By: Andy Stout • Posted on: 31 Jul, 2011 • 2 minute read
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    Inside the game: Sky Sports at the US Open
    What’s the story? Rory glory! While the United States Golf Association makes a US Open world feed available to broadcasters from around the globe, Sky Sports brings over a crew of 65 to make sure that audiences in Europe see...
    By: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director • Posted on: 22 Jun, 2011 • 3 minute read

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