Banijay Iberia and LaLiga will join forces to launch LaLiga Studios, a new sports-related content production company led by Chalo Bonifacino Cooke. The agreement will involve Banijay Iberia contributing its production expertise and LaLiga its knowledge and reputation to establish LaLiga Studios for the creation of sports-related content. Through the partnership, LaLiga Studios will produce […] More
“Nobody in this business is working if they don’t love the job,” says Emili Planas Quintana, CTO at MediaPro. “What I love about my job is integrating creativity with technology within a budget.” Quintana studied cinema at university. “In theory, I am closer to a cinema director than a CTO,” he says. His time as […] More
Altogether, 32 cameras, including a drone and two in-goal cameras, captured the action at Seville’s Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium on Wednesday 18 May when Eintracht Frankfurt met Rangers in the UEFA Europa League final. The camera plan for the match, pictured below, also included six super-slow-motion cameras, four hi-speed cameras, two pole cams and an aerial […] More
More than 50 cameras, two outside broadcast units and a crew of over 200 broadcast professionals from the Mediapro Group participated in the broadcast of the UEFA Europa League final in Seville. The Mediapro Group was appointed the audio visual company in charge of the production and distribution of the international signal for the UEFA […] More
LaLiga is going to make a Goal Probability graphic available to directors working on coverage of its matches from this weekend. The stat, which has come about as part of the league’s tie-up with Microsoft, will be ready to send to air as part of goal replays within 30 seconds of the action taking place […] More
LaLiga has opened the bidding process for the exclusive sale of LaLiga Santander audiovisual rights in Spain, including Andorra, on non-exclusive terms. These rights cover a period of up to five seasons, from 2022-23 until 2026-27. The audiovisual content is divided into seven options, each one made up of several lots, intended for both terrestrial […] More
Spanish live production house Terrible Producciones has implemented an end-to end-streaming workflow based on Blackmagic Design hardware for numerous national sporting federations. Based in Valladolid, Spain, Terrible Producciones has been producing content for a host of partners including Spanish Segunda División (football), Liga ASOBAL (handball), División de Honor de Rugby (rugby) and la Real Federación Española de […] More
LaLigaTV will provide ‘multigoal’ coverage of Spain’s top flight this weekend in the UK and Ireland, showing action from the games as they happen during a single programme, as the league title, relegation and European qualification are decided. The format, which LaLiga head of content and programming Roger Brosel compared to Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday […] More
The illegal Mobdro streaming application, which had more than 100 million users, has been shut down following a Europol investigation supported by the Spanish National Police. The intervention, which also involved law enforcement authorities from Andorra and Portugal, resulted in the dismantling of a criminal group distributing illegal video streams. The investigation started in October […] More
Speaking to SVG Europe, LaLiga head of content and programming Roger Brosel outlines the improvements that have already been made to match coverage since Spain’s top two divisions returned to action, discusses the thought process behind the augmented pictures and sound and hints at what might happen next season. Top-flight football returned in Spain on […] More
