Modern Times Group, the international entertainment broadcasting group, has acquired the television broadcasting rights to England’s Barclays Premier League in Sweden and Denmark from the start of the 2013/2014 season until the end of the 2015/2016 season from the Premier League. The rights include coverage of all 38 rounds of the Barclays Premier League, comprising […] More
Web portals continue to play a larger role in sport media consumption and SVT, Sweden’s public TV broadcaster, is the latest to take steps to enhance the functionality of its site to end users as well as improve backend operations to that it can more easily keep up with an Internet-streaming environment that has content […] More
The first website with fluid layout built on Vizrt’s Escenic Content Engine content management system is running live. The Swedish National Broadcaster SVT, a relatively new Escenic customer, recently launched its responsive website, svt.se/ug, built on Escenic Content Engine 5 and Widget Framework. More
Kanal 75, the prolific Swedish producer of live, produced and archive horse racing content, is replacing its entire production infrastructure with a new HD workflow based on EVS and Avid technology. The new system, which includes XS and XT3 production servers and the IPDirector content production management suite, will also be the first installation to […] More
Sweden: Onside TV Production, a full-service production facility owned by the Swedish Football Association (Svenska Fotbollförbundet; SvFF) and Svensk Elit Fotboll (SEF), has implemented Nevion’s VideoIPath along with the company’s Ventura JPEG 2000 compression system to transport live content from 16 football stadiums across Sweden—from Gävle in the north to Malmö in the south—over IP. More
Sweden: Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 Group has put a new 2D/3D sports event channel on the air, run from a purpose-built playout facility at the transmission centre in Stockholm managed by Ericsson Broadcast Services. Both this, and a playout and management area for the SD Guld Norge service, were built by UK systems integrator ATG […] More
