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Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum 2019: Programme revealed

All the details for Broadcast Sport’s free-to-attend all day event at BT Sport studios on Thursday (14 November) Broadcast Sport is bringing the very popular Tech Innovation Forum back to the vibrant atmosphere of BT Sport’s studios in Stratford, London, this Thursday (14 November). It’s the second year for the event, and this year we’ve gone even […]

Red Bull freestyle football contest to air in 4K HDR on Insight TV

Competition to be live streamed in 4K UHD HDR for the first time Global 4K broadcaster Insight TV is to live stream Red Bull’s Street Style Football World Championship on 15 November in 4K UHD HDR. The live broadcast of the 90-minute event takes in Miami, Florida, will be in partnership with Red Bull […]

Australia’s Optus Sport signs three-year Women’s Super League deal

Exclusive Barclays FA Women’s Super League deal starts this weekend Australia’s Optus Sport has picked up the exclusive live rights for the Barclays FA Women’s Super League, the top-tier of English women’s football. The deal is for the next three years and covers around 50 live matches a season. It begins the weekend (Sunday 17 […]

1.25m tune in to live finals of mobile esports competition

Summoners War World Arena Championship 2019 finals gets 10 times the views of last year’s tournament The finals of the Summoners War World Arena Championship 2019 picked up its highest online viewing figures to date, with 1.25m tuning in to the live stream, via YouTube and Twitch. This was 10 times the cumulative views from […]

Six Day Series reveals broadcast plans for 2019/20 season

Global cycling event will be televised by Eurosport and through OTT app FloSports Madison Sports Group’s cycling tournament, the Six Day Series has revealed its broadcast deals for the 2019/20 season across linear, subscription, OTT and streaming platforms. The series will be available in 100+ countries with Eurosport (a long-term partner of Six Day Series) […]

SquashTV to broadcast Men’s Squash Championship live to 3m global fans

D2C coverage, together with Facebook streams, will see squash tournament reach large audience worldwide SquashTV will broadcast the Men’s World Team Squash Championship (held 15-21 December in Washington D.C.) for free globally, after reaching an agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF) and tournament hosts Squash on Fire. The D2C platform Squash TV, which is […]

GOLFTV reveals details of its first Japan Skins event

The 18-hole challenge features Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Maysuyama and some of the world’s biggest rugby stars GOLFTV has revealed further details of its inaugural Japan Skins event, which features four of golf’s finest – Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Maysuyama – going head-to-head over 18 holes. The […]

Kipchoge marathon reaches 500m+ TV viewers

The INEOS 1:59 Challenge gets 4.9m YouTube views and reached 500m+ TV viewers Host broadcaster Sunset+Vine has revealed viewing figures for Eliud Kipchoge’s successful attempt at breaking the 2-hour marathon on Saturday morning. The marathon, which took place in central Vienna, saw Kipchoge finish in just 1h59m40s. It was streamed live on YouTube, broadcast on […]

One in 10 UK residents illegally stream Premier League games

Onepoll survey, commissioned by Finder.com, reveals both the legal and illegal sports streaming habits of UK viewers A Onepoll survey has found almost one in 10 UK residents have streamed Premier League football illegally over the last 12 months. The survey, commissioned by personal finance website Finder.com and based on responses from 2,000 people across […]

BT Sport and Rise team up on schools outreach programme

The Rise-Up programme aims to inspire children to consider a career in broadcast, in tech and engineering roles BT Sport has teamed up with Rise – an advocate group for gender diversity – to launch new schools outreach programme, Rise-Up. The aim of Rise-Up is to “inspire and educate children about engineering and technology opportunities […]

Vodafone survey reveals high expectations for 5G innovation in sports

5G anticipated to drive improvements in fan engagement and open up new revenue opportunities Vodafone has released research revealing sports organisations believe the rollout of 5G will drive new and innovative fan experiences. The telco questioned 250 decision-makers in the sports sector across the UK, with 76% of respondents saying they will use 5G as […]

Amateur football channel ‘Give Me Five’ launches

The channel will air through digital platform Alchimie French digital distribution company Alchimie has launched TV channel, Give Me Five, which will focus on live coverage of amateur football leagues. The channel will report from the amateur six-a-side and five-a-side leagues across Europe, with original programme Too Good To Miss providing a mix of the best […]

BBC and Eurosport to live stream Ineos 1:59 Challenge

Broadcasters are the latest to pick up rights to Eliud Kipchoge’s attempt to run the first sub-two-hour marathon The live broadcast rights for long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge’s attempt to run the first sub-two-hour marathon – the Ineos 1:59 Challenge – have been picked up by the BBC and Eurosport (pan Europe and pan Asia). They […]

J.League introduces AI-created personalised highlights

Japanese soccer league is providing fans with bespoke highlight clips, using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) The top-flight of Japanese soccer, J.League is using AI to create personalised highlight clips of Japanese football content. AI specialist WSC Sports is working with J.League to automatically generate and distribute tailored sports video content in near […]

Yahoo Sport reveals video hub dedicated to US sport

Yahoo Sport Presents…Tailgate aims to be the home for the UK fanbase of American major league sports Yahoo Sport UK has launched a new platform focused on American sports, called Yahoo Sport Presents…Tailgate. Tailgate is a collection of “premium video content, with fans at the heart of the experience,” says Yahoo. It’s presented by TV […]

Sports Channel Network picks up rugby head injury doc, Head On

Rugby doc will TX on free-to-air channel in the UK A new documentary, Head On, which tackles the issue of head injuries in rugby -– is being screened in the UK exclusively by Sports Channel Network. There’s been an increase in the number of head and neck injuries in the sport, which has driven changes in […]

La Liga shortlists 10 finalists for tech innovation competition

10 startups chosen for accelerator programme and for potential use by LaLiga in the production and/or broadcast of its content La Liga has picked the 10 companies that have made it through to the finals of its Startup Competition 2019. The content, which kicked off in March, is a partnership between La Liga and Microsoft’s […]

Spalk extends live commentary options for Rugby World Cup 2019

The Rugby World Cup 2019 has teamed up with ‘Virtual Sportscasting Studio’ Spalk to provide rugby fans around the world with the choice of German, Spanish and Japanese live commentaries for every match. A total of 20+ commentators in 15 countries will be commentating from Spalk’s Virtual Studio across the six-week tournament. They have been […]

BT recruits Andy Haworth to grow viewers and revenue for BT Sport

Former BT Consumer strategy lead takes up new role focused on BT’s sports rights and accelerating the growth of BT Sport BT has appointed Andy Haworth to the newly created role of managing director of Sports Rights and Commercial. He will manage BT’s growing sports rights and commercial business and spearhead the company’s renewed efforts […]

The European Tour launches innovation competition to “enhance golf”

New contest is aimed at start-ups and is seeking innovations that will appeal to golf fans The European Tour has launched an innovation contest for start-ups aimed at developing new creative concepts to enhance golf. The European Tour Innovation Hub competition is being run with Tata Communications and is seeking ideas that can be developed […]

ITV creates ‘window on the world’ for its Rugby World Cup studio

Broadcaster’s studio set uses mixed reality to show stylised Japanese cityscapes out of huge panoramic ‘windows’ ITV has turned to mixed reality to create a ‘window on the world’ for its Rugby World Cup 2019 studio. The studio builds on the approach it took for the men’s football World Cup studio in Russia, where augmented […]

EVS introduces AI-driven football automation system Overcam

The product automates robotic cameras covering football, with natural looking framing of the action EVS has revealed automation product Overcam, marking the sports tech giant’s first major move into AI-driven camera automation. Overcam automates key camera positions, delivering additional camera coverage at lower cost. It uses machine learning techniques to mimic traditional camera framing, providing […]

Salsa Sound launches AI audio mixing for football matches

Automated system creates real-time immersive audio mixes using patented artificial intelligence (AI) Salsa Sound has launched an innovative, automated system that creates live audio mixes of football matches. It is based on Salsa Sound’s patented AI technology, which takes the audio from standard broadcast microphones at a venue and automatically creates a real-time mix. This […]

League of Legends Pro League finals unveil AR world’s first

The opening ceremony for the esports finals features a real-time AR gaming character being interviewed and joining a dance troupe on-stage Real-time facial animation and live ray tracing was used for the first time during the live broadcast of Riot Games’ League of Legends Pro League (LPL) regional finals. The broadcast saw an AR computer […]

Mobile Viewpoint reveals 4K camera for its sports automation system

Company bolsters the quality of image acquisition for its automated sports production and distribution system Mobile Viewpoint has launched the IQ X-Cam – a multi-4K camera system designed to be used by its artificial intelligence (AI) sports production and distribution automation system IQ Sports Producer. The IQ X-Cam IP camera can capture panoramic images in […]

BT Sport broadcasts live 8K rugby at IBC 2019

Broadcaster behind one of the world’s first live 8K sports broadcasts BT Sport used IBC 2019 to demonstrate one of the world’s first live 8K sports broadcasts – of the Gallagher Premiership Rugby 7s tournament. The images were captured in 8K on a single Ikegami SHK-810 8K system camera with Fujinon lenses and displayed on […]

BT Sport moves to remote production for National League

Broadcaster will cover more National League live games than before and create weekly presenter-led highlights show BT Sport is using remote production to dramatically increase its live coverage of the Vanarama National League (the fifth tier of the English football league system) and turnaround highlights from all weekly matches much faster than before. This season, […]

Rugby World Cup 2019 to offer fan-controlled 3D highlights

Seven matches from the tournament, which kicks off on Friday 20 September, will have highlights created by Canon’s Free Viewpoint Video System Seven Rugby World Cup 2019 matches will offer fans post-match highlights with viewpoints and angles not possible with conventional cameras. Canon’s Free Viewpoint Video System is being used to create replays the company […]

Input Media to produce Premier League show for Mola TV

Indonesian broadcaster will broadcast its Premier League show from Input Media’s West London studio Input Media is producing a new studio-based Premier League football show for Indonesian broadcaster Mola TV. It is looking after the broadcaster’s studio wrap-around show, which goes out during a selection of live games throughout the Premier League season. Input Media […]

Premier Sports brings La Liga to UK

‘Historic’ three-year deal covers all Spanish league games and introduces dedicated platform LaLiga and Premier Sports have announced a “historic agreement” that will see all La Liga games to the end of the 2021/22 season broadcast in the UK and Ireland. It has also revealed the launch of LaLigaTV; a dedicated 24/7 channel in the […]

Maidstone Studios lands ITV Rugby World Cup 2019 deal

ITV Sport’s coverage of the Rugby World Cup 2019 will be hosted and broadcast live from Maidstone Studios Maidstone Studios has revealed it will host all ITV Sport’s live studio coverage of the Rugby World Cup Japan 2019. Throughout the tournament, which kicks off on Friday 20 September and runs for six weeks, Maidstone Studios […]

COPA90 reveals exclusive content for Women’s Super League

Matchday previews and social media ‘takeovers’ make up COPA90’s content this weekend COPA90 has created a mixture of content to mark the kick off of the Barclays FA Women’s Super League this weekend. COPA90 has produced a matchday preview for the Manchester City vs Manchester United game, featuring City’s captain Steph Houghton, which is now […]