The metaverse is here to stay and sports broadcasters need to be engaged in the development of this new virtual world, Matt Stagg, mobile and immersive director at BT Sport, has claimed. We spoke to Stagg about the rise of the metaverse, how it will develop over 2023, and how the increasingly prevalent immersive virtual […] More
Fans of winter sports are in for a month of adrenaline-charged action featuring the greatest athletes the sport has to offer with over 120 hours of live coverage across four World Championships events to be shown on Discovery+, Eurosport and Eurosport App. Scott Young, SVP of content and production at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, […] More
Lega Serie A is using Dalet solutions to manage its sports content and production workflows. The top-flight Italian football league has consolidated its content production, management and distribution operations at its Lissone-based production centre onto a centralised media infrastructure. The fundamental change to Lega Serie A’s media production was a significant technical uplift that uses […] More
Imagine Communications has renewed its Gold sponsorship of SVG Europe. Looking back on a busy 12 months, Mathias Eckert, SVP & GM EMEA and APAC at Imagine Communications (pictured), said: “2022 was the year that sport fans had been waiting for, and production professionals delivered in a major way. The sporting calendar was packed with […] More
By Brad Wall, LTN Global CTO. The sports broadcasting industry has shown great determination over the past few years, driven by ongoing shifts in consumer behaviour, the ever-increasing demand for live sports entertainment, and an accelerated deployment of over the top (OTT) digital platforms. Perhaps the most significant shift in the sports broadcasting landscape is […] More
Ateme has renewed its Gold sponsorship of SVG Europe. The video compression and delivery solutions specialist is known for helping tier one content providers, service providers and streaming platforms to boost their viewership and subscription engagement. Claude Stoffel, VP sport & entertainment, Ateme, explained: “We enable superior viewing experiences through efficient content delivery over satellite, […] More
By Rick Allen, ViewLift CEO. For much of the sports world, 2022 has provided a Dickensian dichotomy; both the best and worst of times. A quick look at underlying causes sets us up for a journey into a murky 2023. Topping the good news this year was the return of fans to live games. Venues […] More
By Christof Haslauer, Native Waves CEO and founder. In broadcast terms, the most notable development of 2022 was the acceleration of production in the cloud and the extent to which both broadcasters and equipment manufacturers embraced this trend. Traditionally, live sports events were captured for television by outside broadcast trucks crammed with processing equipment that […] More
By Julian Fernandez-Campon, Tedial CTO We all know that sport, as an industry and a media entity, is big business. You only have to look at the amount of money that changes hands for football transfers, the costs of media rights for matches and the prize money in both field sports, motor racing and many […] More
Sky Sports has announced a new long-term deal with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the UK and Ireland, meaning the broadcaster will continue to show the biggest events in international cricket for years to come. Beginning in 2024, the partnership will see Sky and Now retain the ICC broadcast and digital rights to show […] More
