With London set to host the inaugural FIFA eNations Cup from 13 to 14 April, the Football Association (FA) found itself with just six weeks to pull together an eSports competition that would decide the composition of England’s first eLions line-up. Esmond Blake, senior manager for commercial strategy at The FA, has been looking into […] More
Amazon Prime Video has contracted BT Sport and its football production partner Sunset+Vine to produce both its studio and live action match-day coverage of the Premier League. The deal, won via a competitive tender, will comprise of live coverage of two full fixture rounds – the first December midweek round and the Boxing Day round […] More
Storage has never been a sexy subject, but sometimes those behind the technology in sports broadcasting manage to make it so. Quantum, the provider of scalable tiered storage plus archive and data protection, spoke to SVG Europe about the latest technology it is employing to provide technology for capturing, sharing, managing and preserving digital assets […] More
NBC Sports Group’s annual pilgrimage to the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass arrived early this year, with The Players Championship shifting from May to March as part of the revamped 2019 PGA Tour golf calendar. The Peacock also had a new partner in covering golf’s unofficial ‘fifth major’ last week, collaborating with new Comcast-owned sibling […] More
Not too long ago, augmented reality (and mixed reality) graphics were a feature reserved for the highest end of sports television productions boasting the biggest budgets. Now, with broadcasters and other content creators leveraging super-advanced gaming engines like Unreal Engine and Unity, this segment of the creative business is becoming more democratised. Those behind the […] More
Red Bee Media has been chosen to provide IMDb ratings for Swisscom’s television offering on TV Box, TV Air Web and TV Air Mobile Apps. The ratings will be provided for movies and television shows on linear channels and for Teleclub On Demand Content on each service. Swisscom is the first European entity to enlist […] More
The Football Association and the BBC have agreed a new four-year broadcast deal to show the Emirates FA Cup until 2025. The new agreement will start at the beginning of the 2021-22 season. The announcement will see live match coverage, highlights and clip rights each season shown free-to-air across BBC platforms until 2025. The new […] More
Following a successful test at the ADAC Rallye Deutschland last August WRC Promoter, the company responsible for commercial aspects of the FIA World Rally Championship, has decided to use LiveU technology across 10 rallies this year. LiveU has already helped bring enhanced coverage of Rallye Monte-Carlo and Rally Sweden to viewers in 2019, with another […] More
Perform Media, the umbrella organisation under which the sports streaming platform DAZN sits, has been rebranded to DAZN Media. The new entity will be responsible for global media partnerships, in addition to managing all commercial inventory across DAZN properties (which includes Goal and Sporting News). DAZN will be a major part of the equation as […] More
The New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) is using control and monitoring technology from German broadcast company Lawo to further revise and streamline its production model. NZRB is now operating four OBs instead of six, with three Mercedes Sprinter vans and a fixed site to cover metropolitan race events from a central control room, using Lawo’s […] More
