The German Football League (Deutsche Fußball Liga – DFL) set new standards in live football coverage last month with its production of the Supercup between DFB Cup holders Borussia Dortmund and Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. The enhanced broadcast featured the ‘Top Match Plus’ concept with a total of 26 cameras including a drone, an aerial […] More
Gravity Media has been showcasing its new Globecam speciality camera unit across cricket grounds in England and Wales this summer, bringing point-of-view camera angles to viewers during TV coverage of the new franchise tournament, The Hundred. The inaugural The Hundred took place throughout July and August this year and featured top players from around the […] More
ITV Sport is making the most of a COVID-secure behind-closed-doors Cheltenham Festival by introducing a new Robycam wired camera to its unilateral coverage of the popular horse racing meeting. The Cheltenham Festival is part of the National Hunt racing calendar and includes the Gold Cup (Friday 19 March), a Grade 1 chase race, run over […] More
US broadcaster CBS Sports is pulling out all the stops for Super Bowl LV. When the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs kicks off on Sunday (7 February) at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, the production will include 120 cameras, never-before-seen camera angles and a Trolley Cam flying alongside the field from […] More
In a contributed article, specialist camera provider Movicom shares its experience of working with augmented reality (AR) graphics in different applications for various sports The use of AR technology within sports broadcasting has improved immensely in recent times. All around the world it is now common for sports presenters to be regularly seen walking through […] More
Live international rugby union was shown on a streaming platform in the UK for the first time last month when coverage of a brand new tournament, the Autumn Nations Cup, started on Amazon Prime Video. And it wasn’t the only thing that was new. Telegenic, part of Euro Media Group (EMG) UK, is facilitating the […] More
Sportcast, the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) subsidiary that produces the world feed for the Bundesliga, has been trialling two new camera innovations on its match coverage: a Railcam that replaced the pitchside Steadicam and a Robotic camera system for single player tracking. Both systems were tested on Borussia Dortmund matches, in fixtures against Schalke 04 […] More
Saturday’s Autumn Nations Cup rugby match at Twickenham between England and Georgia might have been a somewhat un-noteworthy one-sided affair on the pitch but off it there was at least one thing that caught the eye: the debut of PostCAM. As the name suggests, PostCAM is a specialist camera system that is installed on the […] More
This year, Aerial Camera Systems (ACS) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The company was founded in 1979 by Peter Allwork, an aerial cinematographer and pioneer of aerial filming techniques. Allwork collaborated with some of the world’s greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchock, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Richard Attenborough. A BAFTA award winner, Allwork […] More
