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By Jason Ho, senior business development director, Caton Technology It has been hard to avoid the talk around IP circuits for contribution and remote production. It has long been seen as a goal, for all sorts of practical reasons. Personnel costs are at the top of the list; as well as saving travel and accommodation, […] More
LaLiga and Movistar+ are now able to request the immediate blocking of pirated platforms that stream football content. A ruling from a Barcelona Commercial Court has established a weekly procedure for blocking pirated websites, with the cooperation of mobile operators Vodafone, Orange, MásMóvil (R, Telecable, Euskaltel), Digimóbil and Telefónica España. This will allow LaLiga and […] More
BT Sport has confirmed its plans for the 2022 edition of the Women’s Ashes, which gets underway at 7.45am on Thursday 20 January on BT Sport 1. Presenter Jules Breach and former England cricketers Lydia Greenway and Ebony Rainford-Brent will head up proceedings live from the BT Sport studio in London. The commentary team across […] More
Sky Sports is set to show more live and exclusive action of the Women’s Super League 2022 than ever before. Sky will air two regular season matches as part of double-headers with the Super League in addition to the semi-finals and Grand Final, which is scheduled for the weekend of 17 to 18 September. The […] More
Synamedia is working with Lithuanian telecom company, Cgates, to futureproof over the top (OTT) pay TV services, including live sports streaming. Cgates has gone live with Synamedia video network solutions across its pay TV services. These technologies will support live and time-shifted viewing on set top boxes and OTT, ensuring Cgates has the flexibility and […] More
By Cassidy Philips, VP networking solutions architecture, Imagine Communications When I was asked to contribute a ‘what’s next for sports broadcast’ piece to SVG Europe a year ago, I concluded with a (somewhat) philosophical prediction for 2021: “The real advances will come from the human side of the workflow ― with bold choices by production […] More
Increasingly essential to audio capture for broadcast sports, wireless bodypack transmitters are small, light, flexible and powerful. Here’s a look at some current leading models. Click here for Tech Focus: Bodypacks, Part 1 — Wireless Transmitters Reflect RF-Industry Challenges. More
Radio was broadcast sports’ first electronic medium, and, a little more than 100 years since the first announcers crackled over the airwaves, radio remains a leading media format for sports. It’s also where broadcast audio gets to stretch out, offering more detail and nuance. And a lot more yelling. SVG sat down with Johan Boqvist, […] More
They’re small and getting smaller. They’re designed to be virtually invisible. They’re light enough to be measured in ounces and grams instead of pounds and kilos. But wireless bodypack transmitters have become both central to audio capture for broadcast sports and emblematic of the broader changes in the wireless environment. More
By Ophir Zardok, sports solutions and business strategy director, LiveU Freedom. That’s the key word when it comes to IP bonding. It provides the freedom to choose how to cover an event and opens up the choice of what events customers want to cover, whatever their scale, from niche sports to Tier 1. It provides […] More
