Tivify, the OTT television platform owned by Spain’s TVUP Media Telecom, is set to live-stream the UEFA Champions League Final using Ateme’s latest Titan transcoding solutions. Based on the Common Media Application Format (CMAF), which significantly reduces latency, Titan has already been used in one of the only real-life low-latency streaming deployments for an improved viewing experience. […] More
The teams responsible for producing coverage of the Champions League Final are getting used to some tight turnarounds. For the past three years, the location of the final has changed at short notice, due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and this year in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The decision to stage […] More
TVN Live Production is set to realise the broadcast of five major European football tournaments this month, including the UEFA Europa League final, DFB-Pokal final and UEFA Champions League final, from venues in Spain, France, Albania and Germany. Following the completion of the Bundesliga season, the broadcast crews of TVN Live Production, including six OB […] More
LiveScore is set to live stream 137 matches in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) free-to-air in Ireland over the LiveScore app as part of a new three-year rights deal. Throughout the term of the deal, which commences at the start of the 2021-22 UCL season, LiveScore will be the exclusive Irish free-to-air broadcaster of 104 […] More
Two interconnected Millenium OB vans from AMP Visual TV have been used for the first time in France. The Millennium 3 and 4, which are designed to be assembled together to form a single large unit with additional capacity, were used by RMC Sport on the PSG versus Barcelona Champions League match at the Parc […] More
Hollywood is coming to the UEFA Champions League as Sky Germany prepares to use an Arri Alexa Mini film camera for the first time in a live football transmission, bringing a cinematic experience to viewers. During the second leg of round 16 of the UEFA Champions League between Bayern Munich and Lazio Roma on 17 […] More
Sky Germany’s Johannes Demmel is a senior manager for outside field operations at UEFA Champions League matches. When lockdown began, Demmel, like many others working in sports broadcasting, was confronted with a break of almost five months, “not being able to enter a stadium; not even preparing any outside production at all”. After long weeks […] More
Katarzyna Humska, production coordinator at Mediapro, was raised in Poland but has made her mark in Spain, where she is a key member of the production team for all LaLiga matches. Humska’s professional career has always been attached to Mediapro and specifically to football. She has been part of some of the company’s major projects […] More
Spanish broadband and telecommunication company Telefónica, S.A has become the latest broadcast multinational to invest in BroaMan’s scalable signal conversion technology over fiber. The company’s subsidiary, Telefónica Broadcast Service, provides services for other companies (as well as themselves), handling production, transport and management of all TV content. Their department also handles outside production of TV […] More
Swiss pay-TV broadcaster Teleclub has signed a three-year deal with European football association UEFA for live-coverage rights of UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League until 2015. Financial details are unavailable. Swiss football fans will be able to watch the games live in the seasons from 2012/13 until 2014/15 at Teleclub and, from September 2012, […] More
