The trend towards remote production of TV winter sports events and the associated increased demand for broadcasting services raised new challenges to all involved in the winter of 2020/2021, working amid a pandemic. Vidi has mastered these challenges and, with the successful finalisation of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, has delivered the winter […] More
The Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) Nordic World Ski Championship, which took place from 23 February to 7 March in Oberstdorf, Germany, marked the first use of the diPloy IP-based infrastructure from Euro Media Group (EMG). Host broadcaster Infront Productions used the IP flypack to co-ordinate a remote production, with the ski jumping production team situated a few kilometres […] More
Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) chief technology officer Sotiris Salamouris is the latest name to join the speaker line-up for next week’s Winter Sports Summit. One year out from Beijing 2022, Salamouris will be discussing plans for the broadcast coverage of the next Winter Olympics, an event that is being described as “more sustainable and more […] More
ORF head of directors Michael Koegler will discuss TV coverage of the 2021 Hahnenkamm Races in Kitzbühel during SVG Europe’s Winter Sports Summit next month (11 February). The races, which take place on what is described as “the world’s most notorious, dangerous, blood-curdling downhill course”, were captured purely for television this year because of COVID […] More
Brand new for 2021, SVG Europe’s Winter Sports Summit will look at the unique challenges and opportunities faced by winter sports productions. Experts in producing coverage of sports such as skiing, biathlon and ice hockey will discuss workflow evolutions, new methods for remote production, the future of winter sports production and more. The event will […] More
Vidi is to make remote production facilities available at a number of winter sports venues in Germany that broadcasters can book and use to produce unilateral coverage of events taking place there. The Darmstadt-based professional services provider is setting up connectivity facilities that will allow data, video and audio feeds to be sent directly from […] More
SVG Europe is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the third dedicated Nordic Summit, in collaboration with NCE Media. Nordic Summit 2020 will take place on Thursday 12 March 2020 at Media City in Bergen, Norway. The programme will feature a mixture of presentations and panel discussions with a particular emphasis on […] More
The Norwegian public broadcaster NRK is using Leader test and measurement (T&M) equipment as the core reference instruments in a recently launched mobile production unit designed for winter sports coverage. OB24, integrated by Lithuania’s TVC, includes seven Leader test instruments and an LT4448 error-detecting automatic channel switcher. Four Leader ZEN-series LV5350 portable 12G/3G/HD/SD-SDI waveform monitors […] More
Eurovision Sport, in partnership with Scout Gaming, has launched a direct-to-fan experience for the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) that takes the form of an online fantasy winter sports game. Available for the first time last weekend (28 November), Ski Austria Expert is a manager simulation game that enables fans to put together their personal fantasy […] More
The benefits and challenges of doing remote production was a key theme at SVG Europe’s Nordic Summit 2019 in Norway last week (7 March, Bergen). The annual event, sponsored by Limelight Networks and organised in association with NCE Media and Media City Bergen, featured a number of sessions that touched on the subject, including one […] More
