BT Sport used last weekend’s FA Cup Final at Wembley to test a new live 8K virtual reality experience delivered to mobile handsets. Working with Blackmagic Design cameras and switchers for the production and using Tiledmedia’s encoding technology and app, the broadcaster covered the game live, using two camera rigs, providing 100 individual testers with […] More
ITV has picked up the joint TV rights for the FA Cup in a deal that will see it share coverage with BBC Sport, meaning that the entire competition will be available free-to-air. The new four-year deal with The Football Association (The FA) will include matches from the First Round through to the Final and […] More
Sky Sports is to broadcast every match from the 2019 Netball World Cup on a ‘pop-up’ channel dedicated to the tournament, and also stream the matches on YouTube for free. The move will see Sky Sports Mix become Sky Sports Netball from 12 July, showing all 60 matches from the World Cup and more than […] More
The nature of live sports makes launching OTT and VoD sports services particularly exciting. “Whether it’s a single round heavyweight fight or Tottenham scoring in the 96th minute of a Champion’s League semi-final, those minutes are not to be missed.” Unfortunately, they sometimes are, said Tom Williams, chief executive, Ostmodern, who chaired the SportTech 2019 […] More
SVG Europe is very pleased to announce that Alessandro Reitano, Sky Deutschland vice president of sports production, has become the new chair of Sports Video Group Europe. He succeeds David Shield, IMG Media senior vice president and global director of engineering and technology, who has stepped down after five years at the helm. Joe Hosken, […] More
Manchester City finally edged out Liverpool to claim the Premier League title on Sunday 12 May. The football drama ensured the busiest day of the season for the team in BT Tower in central London, due to strong demand for Premier League coverage from broadcasters worldwide and the fact that all ten games took place […] More
EVS has announced that its latest XT production servers have successfully passed the Joint Task Force on Networked Media’s JT-NM SMPTE ST 2110 testing. They are among the first products — and claimed to be the first live production servers — to be produced and shipped with full IP interoperability, consistent with the AIMS Alliance […] More
With the first SVG Europe Carbon Literacy for Sports Production Workshop, a full programme of content at SportTech, and then the SVG Europe Women event, SportTech 2019 at Lord’s was a packed one-day event with something for every attendee. Around 450 people attended the day in total, including 200 at the cricket-themed SVG Europe Women […] More
As announced by its chairman Jeff Foulser to SVG Europe’s SportTech 2019 audience at Lord’s on Wednesday, independent TV sports production and media company Sunset+Vine has been awarded a new four-year host production deal by the ICC. The deal covers all live event production services for ICC TV until 2023, excluding the India events in […] More
UEFA Champions League viewers will be able to watch this year’s final on the BT Sport App in HD HDR for the first time. The coverage will be available to users with an HDR compatible mobile phone, tablet, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast Ultra or Xbox One. BT Sport and UK mobile network operator […] More
