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FIFA World Cup 2026: ARD and ZDF on using teamwork to make the dream work with their smallest ever production footprint on a World CupGerman broadcasters ZDF and ARD - the joint organisation of Germany’s regional public service broadcasters - have a unique and highly collaborative relationship which sees them working hand-in-hand for all major tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup 2026. Deutsche Telekom...
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FIFA World Cup 2026: ARD on the technicalities of bringing the biggest global football tournament to life in sight and soundGerman broadcasters ARD and ZDF will broadcast 60 of the 104 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches live, with each channel showing 30 games. While the opening match was shown live on ZDF and the final will also be, all matches...
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FIFA World Cup 2026: Behind the ZDF production to bring the German broadcast homeGerman broadcaster ZDF has the rights for 30 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches, alongside ARD which also has 30 games. The two rights holders are working both separately and together on this World Cup. They each have separate crews on...
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UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: Inside European broadcaster remote production setups with ZDF, ARD, RTVE, NRK, ITV Sport and BBC SportAt the Women’s Euro 2025, rights holding broadcasters from around Europe favoured a remote approach to their productions as they bought all the action from the pitch to fans in their home countries. Particularly during the early knockout stages of...
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Live from UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: Inside German broadcaster ZDF’s remote production from the National Broadcast CentreFor the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, German public service broadcaster ZDF is sharing the rights with ARD, the joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. While there is significant crossover between the two broadcasters on their workflow in Switzerland and...
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Live from UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: German broadcaster organisation ARD on being live from Switzerland in an integrated remote productionThe joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters, ARD, is providing comprehensive, cross-media coverage of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 from the ARD SportHub at the Sportschau Campus in Cologne. While ARD is working alongside ZDF to share rights for...
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Paris 2024: How ARD and ZDF connected the dots to bring the Olympics and next the Paralympics to German viewersWhile the Olympics is now over, the Paralympics is set to begin on 28 August and German regional broadcaster, NDR, is ready. Working as part of the German broadcast conglomerate ARD alongside public service television broadcaster, ZDF, NDR’s Felix Ruhberg,...
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Paris 2024: ARD and ZDF to share Seine studio for Olympics coverageARD and ZDF will together broadcast around 240 hours live on their linear channels and about 1,500 hours of streamed content over 17 days of the Olympics. The German public broadcasters secured sublicensing agreements with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to...
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Team player: Picking sparring partners and mentors with Sky Deutschland’s director of inhouse operations Louisa von LentheTo women thinking of moving into sports broadcasting or pushing forwards in their careers, Louisa von Lenthe, director of inhouse operations at Sky Deutschland, says: “Just do it! Take one step at a time, watch and learn from others and...
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Knockout competition: Behind the ZDF and ARD production of the Women’s World Cup 2023 using SRTGerman broadcasters ZDF and ARD are producing the Women’s World Cup using secure reliable transport (SRT) streams for the first time ever for a major sports event. While ZDF used SRT for the audio description for the European Championships 2022...
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ZDF opts for Apantac KVM over IP for remote production of World CupZDF opted for Apantac's KVM over IP solutions for its remote production of the 2022 World Cup. ZDF, a German public service television broadcaster produced and showed the World Cup live in Germany on free-to-air television. Production of the games...
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Behind the lens: ZDF camera operator Kerstin Decker on seeing her beautiful sporting images on the screenZDF camera operator Kerstin Decker has wanted to be behind the lens since she was a child. Since then that focus and attention to detail have taken her through a multitude of sports, from multiple Summer and Winter Olympic Games...
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Facing change: ZDF digital typographic artist Katrin Brendel talks evolving technologies and taking challenges in her stride“The coolest things in my career in terms of live sports broadcasts was being part of the graphical and operational supervision of major sporting events, such as the World Cup and the Olympics,” says Katrin Brendel, a digital typographic artist...
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ZDF all set to broadcast Beijing Winter Olympics across Germany in tandem with ARDZDF is all set to bring coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics to fans across Germany. It will broadcast on nine of the 17 broadcast days for the Games, with Das Erste – fellow German broadcaster ARD’s flagship national television...
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