International Paralympic Committee to use AI to log archive and future content

Bespoke artificial intelligence (AI) from egoli Media will automatically log, tag and categorise content from previous and future Paralympic Games. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is working with AI company egoli Media to digitise and automatically log, tag and categorise all IPC-owned content, including previous and future Paralympic Games and other major Para sports events. […]

PGA Tour and AWS to “transform the way golf content is experienced”

The partnership will provide fans with access to a huge pool of content from PGA Tour events. The PGA Tour has announced it’s to use AWS for cloud storage, machine learning, analytics and media services. The organisation says its use of AWS will “transform the way golf content is created, distributed and experienced.” Its aim […]

OneFootball acquires Dugout to create huge digital football media business

Together, the companies provide OTT streaming, highlights, behind-the-scenes and archive video football content, news, scores and statistics.  Football media specialist OneFootball has acquired football content platform Dugout to form what it says is the world’s largest owned and operated digital football media business. Together the businesses offer live OTT streaming, highlights, behind-the-scenes and archive video […]

Dugout reveals 700% increase in interest in its women’s football content

The global increase in interest in women’s football is reflected in Dugout’s stats for the last 12 months. Football content provider Dugout has revealed it’s seen a 700% increase in ‘engagement’ in women’s football content over the last year. Dugout hosts footage from a range of women’s teams, including Arsenal Women Football Club; Manchester City […]

Eurosport to run month-long digital series celebrating black athletes

The series will run throughout October, during Black History Month. Eurosport and Team GB are partnering to mark Black History Month during October with a month-long digital series to celebrate black athletes past and present. The series focuses on the Olympic games and includes 31 memorable moments from the Olympic Summer Games that acknowledge the […]

IMG Replay to digitise and market Frank Warren Boxing archive

Extensive boxing library is being made available through searchable online archive, IMG Replay. Archive library IMG Replay is to digitise and market Frank Warren Boxing’s archive of more than 2,000 fights dating back over 110 years. The archive includes Frank Bruno’s world heavyweight title win over Oliver McCall; Joe Calzaghe’s triumph over Mikel Kessler at […]

Podcast: Ron Chakraborty on how the BBC is filling Wimbledon fortnight

A schedule of 50-hours of classic Wimbledon archive content and tennis docs replaces the cancelled Wimbledon 2020. Ron Chakraborty, executive editor, major events at BBC Sport talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the BBC’s plans for Wimbledon 2020 following the cancellation of the tournament due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than live tennis […]

BBC to air 12 days of classic Olympics archive material

The content replaces the cancelled 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo. BBC Sport has scheduled 12 days of dedicated Olympics programming, to replace the cancelled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Badged Olympics Rewind, and starting on 14 July, the content naturally relies heavily on archive material, through a daily highlights show looking back at some of […]

BBC to air 50 hours of Wimbledon archive programming

Two-weeks of classic Wimbledon coverage will replace Wimbledon 2020 on the BBC. The BBC is to host 50+ hours of classic Wimbledon content from 29 June, to replace the cancelled Wimbledon 2020 tournament. Every weeknight from 8pm, BBC2 will serve up Wimbledon archive material, hosted by Sue Barker. She will be joined by Tim Henman […]

Podcast: Sebastian Gray, co-founder, Dugout

Episode #12 of the Broadcast Tech Talks podcast series shines the spotlight on innovative archive football content specialist Dugout. Sebastian Gray, co-founder and SVP of football content platform Dugout talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about what the company does, how it does it, and the growth in demand for previously undiscovered archive football […]

Verizon Media and Dugout partner on ads and football content deal

The deal provides Yahoo Sports with a huge archive of football clips, and Dugout with a new revenue stream. Verizon Media and Dugout have partnered up to provide Dugout’s 60,000+ archive football-related clips to an embedded player in Yahoo Sports. It also makes it possible for Verizon Media’s advertisers to reach Dugout’s audience of 60+ […]

Eurosport to show classic stages from Giro D’Italia in new interactive show

90-minute daily live and on-demand show includes quizzes and polls. Eurosport has unveiled a 90-minute live and on-demand interactive daily show re-running the most memorable stages of Giro d’Italia from the last seven years. As part of a collaboration with Global Cycling Network (GCN), Eurosport is launching Giro d’Italia Classic Stages on Saturday 9 May […]

Matchroom Sport launches OTT platform with free-to-air archive content

The new Matchroom Live platform will provide both live streams of tournaments (to subscribers) and free archive sports content. Matchroom Sport has teamed up with sports streaming specialist StreamAMG to create new OTT platform, Matchroom Live, which provides fans worldwide access to its portfolio of events. Matchroom Live will host live streams of Matchroom Sports […]

COMMENT: How to handle archives of sports content

Nick Pearce-Tomenius, sales and marketing director, Object Matrix explains how and why it pays to make archives accessible. When COVID-19 restrictions started being introduced, the cancellation of sports fixtures was greeted with respect from fans who fully understood that the health of the community was the priority. But sports broadcasting hasn’t been easy to replace. […]

BBC Sport preps summer of presenter-led archive re-runs

Contingency plan couples magazine formats with archive classics. BBC Sport has begun prepping for when the worst of the current Covid-19 restrictions are lifted as it readies magazine formats to accompany archive classics over the summer. Head of TV sport Phillip Bernie is drawing up contingency plans for how to film formats in a semi-lockdown […]

Sports Illustrated signs up to Dugout for archive and BTS football content

US publisher to provide football fans with exclusive video content from more than 100 football clubs. Football content platform Dugout has inked a deal with Maven, the publisher of Sports Illustrated, to provide archive and behind-the-scenes video content to US-based football fans. The content comes from 100+ football clubs, national football federations and leagues, and […]

Sky Sports to broadcast ‘watch-along’ golf final with Rory McIlroy

Close fought final gets a re-run tomorrow evening, hosted by tournament winner McIlroy. Sky Sports is broadcasting a ‘watch-along’ screening of the final of the Players Championship 2019 golf tournament, featuring live insight and breakdown from tournament winner Rory McIlroy. McIlroy will join Nick Dougherty and Brandel Chamblee live from 9.35pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 28 April) […]

S4C lines up schedule of Welsh sporting classics

Welsh broadcaster goes big on Wales-focused sporting re-runs. Welsh broadcaster S4C is the latest to announce a series of archive broadcasts, to fill the slot left by live sport cancellations. Naturally, it’s focused on Wales’ sporting past, with the broadcaster commissioning a number of productions it will TX over the coming weeks. The programming includes […]

Liverpool FC to repurpose archive content for fans during lockdown

It’s using cloud-based editing and publishing platform Blackbird. Liverpool FC is using remote video editing and publishing platform Blackbird to repurpose content from its archive, to provide fans with rarely seen clips during the Covid-19 pandemic. The archive content will be published on the Liverpool FC website and social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and […]

Podcast: Ronnie O’Sullivan & Eurosport’s Jamie Steward

O’Sullivan talks about what he’s been up to during lockdown, including recording a series of 30-minute vodcasts for Eurosport, while Steward reveals Eurosport’s sports strategy to fill the live sport void during the pandemic. The latest episode of Broadcast Tech Talks podcast series sees Ronnie O’Sullivan join Eurosport UK senior director of production and broadcast […]

Dugout to provide exclusive football clips to Chinese platform PP Sports

The football video archive, owned by some of the world’s biggest clubs, is providing a range of content for Chinese football fans. Dugout has announced a new video content partnership with Chinese digital platform, PP Sports, to help meet the increasing demand for football content from fans in China. Dugout, which is co-owned by 10 […]

Sky Sports updates schedules with archive, docs and a series of new shows

Archive material, new shows and documentaries to be unveiled by Sky Sports over the coming weeks and months. Sky Sports is launching a weekday mid-morning football show and adding a range of content across its 11 channels, digital and social platforms in an attempt to “give viewers their sporting fix during these times of national […]

Arsenal FC chooses Blackbird for quick-turnaround social content

Cloud video editor to be used by the club for editing and distributing live and archive content on social platforms. Arsenal Football Club has announced it’s to use cloud video platform Blackbird for the speedy editing and publishing of content to fans. The club, which has a combined following of 70+ million fans across its […]

BBC fills sports void with wealth of sports archive content

The broadcaster is replacing live sports events with classic sporting moments. With coronavirus putting a stop to all live sport, BBC Sport is the latest sport broadcaster to turn its attentions to archive sports footage. It’s scheduling a whole calendar of archive sporting events, including the London 2012 Olympic Games. BBC1 will show both The […]

Eleven Sports Belgium signs up NBA TV

Basketball fans will have a chance to see some action while the coronavirus pauses live games Eleven Sports is to show NBA TV in its efforts to bring viewers content while live games are postponed. The competition was postponed on 11 March, and it looks unlikely to come back any time soon as the coronavirus […]