Sports Flick Global partners with Grabyo for localised live broadcasts

Grabyo’s cloud platform will be used by the OTT and pay-per-view live sport platform OTT and pay-per-view live sport platform Sports Flick Global has partnered with Grabyo to deliver localised broadcasts to subscribers. Sports Flick will tailor its international broadcasts to regional audiences, including the use of local talent for presentation and commentary. This will […]

Extreme E enhances environmental reputation with cloud-based distribution

The competition is working with Base Media Cloud and Veritone to create a cloud-native storage and content distribution platform Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum, Extreme E head of broadcast and technology, Dave Adey, Base Media Cloud managing director Ben Foakes, and Veritone senior director, customer solutions, David Candler, have explained how they’ve […]

Sunset+Vine on the future of remote production

Sunset+Vine executive producer Nick Moody backed remote production to stick around post lockdown at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum Sunset+Vine executive producer Nick Moody has backed remote production to be one of the main improvements in broadcast production that will stay after lockdowns end. Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum in a […]

BT Sport halves Premier League production carbon footprint

BT Sport COO Jamie Hindhaugh revealed the green accomplishment at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum BT Sport has halved its carbon footprint when producing Premier League matches, according to COO Jamie Hindhaugh. Since the resumption of sport after the Covid-19 postponements, much of the matchday production has had to move to remote working – […]

UEFA teams with TVU Networks for live Champions League Draws

The setup created by TVU enabled football clubs to take part in the events from their home locations. The UEFA Champions League and Europa League Final 8 Draw were remotely produced for the first time this year. The Champions League Group Stage Draw and awards ceremony were also produced remotely. UEFA brought in TVU Networks […]

TECH: Changing The Rules of the game for live news and dynamic sports productions

Ronen Artman, VP of Marketing, LiveU, chats with Broadcast Sport about the capabilities of the LU-800 and the various projects undertaken this year. It’s fair to say that in the build-up to the launch of the first LiveU product in 2008 there was some industry scepticism about the viability of the underlying technology we were […]

COMMENT: How the industry can redefine itself amid the pandemic

Tata Communications global head of media and entertainment services Dhaval Ponda on the future of production post-lockdown. For the last few months, lockdown measures introduced to stem the spread of Covid-19 have had many of us grounded in our homes. As such, most of us have turned to our TV sets and digital platforms for […]

Scott Young, F1 head at Sky Sports to lead production at Eurosport

Major appointment will build on Eurosport’s recent tech-led transformation of its production operations. Eurosport has announced another high-profile appointment with the recruitment of Scott Young as senior vice president, production and content. Young has more than 30 years experience across live sports, major event production and on-screen innovation. Young joins from Sky Sports, where he’s […]

Behind the scenes: Sunset+Vine reveals how it makes shows during lockdown

Production house reveals the innovative way it is embracing live remote TV production during the Covid-19 crisis. This short video, presented by Sunset+Vine executive producer Stephen Booth, explains in 2m21s exactly how the producer has made remote production with presenters and crew at home the “new normal.”

Behind the scenes: Matze Knop’s Home Office (Sky Sports News Deutschland HD)

Marius Fischer, the editor on Sky Sports News Deutschland HD daily sports-focused comedy series, Matze Knop’s Home Office, explains how it’s being put together during lockdown. With top flight schedules at a standstill, sports broadcasters are working around the clock to produce content that not only fills the gaps, but offers positivity and support during […]

Tech Talks podcast: Sunset+Vine launches Scottish Football Extra From Home

Sister site Broadcast Tech talks to Sunset+Vine executive producer Grant Philips about producing sports content during the coronavirus outbreak, in the second of its podcast series – Tech Talks Following the first Broadcast Tech Talk podcast with Coffee & TV CEO Derek Moore, the second in Broadcast Tech’s new podcast series is a conversation between […]

Extreme E appoints head of broadcast and technology

Dave Adey will be hoping to bring cutting-edge technology to the sport Extreme E has appointed Dave Adey as its head of broadcast and technology. Adey will be in charge of sourcing cutting-edge technology for remote broadcast and race control vision – with the race series aiming to be environmentally friendly while filming in remote […]

Tata Communications to launch 100G media backbone

Move likely to boost adoption of 4k, Esports and remote production Tata Communications is to launch a 100G media backbone to meet growing bandwidth demands in the broadcasting, sports and esports industries. Delivered in collaboration with Net Insight, the 100G backbone will help overcome the technical complexities of esports, with each event involving multiple cameras, […]

Behind the scenes: Eurosport coverage of the Australian Open

Complex remote production set up has seen 300 live hours tennis produced Eurosport wraps its coverage of the Australian Open after the finals this weekend, having broadcast every match either on Eurosport live or on-demand – over 300 live hours in total. Eurosport Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Norway and UK production teams have all been […]

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, […]