SIS LIVE Signs New Contract with European Tour Productions

This includes satellite services, uplink trucks and flyaway units for events in Europe and the Middle East, as well as co-ordination of local uplink providers and satellite services for events in South Africa, Asia and Australasia. The agreement allows European Tour the flexibility to increase the coverage in Europe to five simultaneous High Definition (HD) feeds with redundancy; all from one of SIS LIVE’s bespoke dual antenna uplink trucks.

Tony Coxon, Head of Production operations at European Tour Productions said “In conjunction with SIS LIVE we have moved our delivery from Mpeg2 to Mpeg4 over the last couple of years. This transition was made in practically seamless manner and we now deliver HD signals to Sky and the rest of the world. We therefore had all confidence in extending our contract with SIS LIVE to include our coverage up to the end of 2018. We will continue to use the excellent SIS LIVE team as well as the dual uplink truck, which underwent a refit as part of its Mpeg4 upgrade, to help us deliver the forty or so live four day golf tournaments that we produce annually.”

SIS LIVE has worked with European Tour Productions on all its golf coverage since January 2004 and since March 2008 SIS LIVE has also provided internet access, ISDNs and telephone lines using its iDirect platforms on IS907 and IS905.

This move has given European Tour Productions and its clients a more consistent, flexible and cost effective solution. The system utilises satellites, therefore the remoteness of each location has no impact on the service. SIS LIVE provides European Tour Productions with its own dedicated telephone numbers so as soon as the uplink dish is deployed, phones and internet are immediately available for everyone in the TV compound.

“SIS LIVE is delighted to extend its partnership with European Tour Productions for such a prestigious worldwide sport,” said David Meynell, Managing Director of SIS LIVE. “We help to ensure that many of the world’s top golf tournaments are broadcast live to millions of homes across the globe, and are keen to continue working with European Tour Productions to enhance its coverage.”

About European Tour Productions
European Tour Productions is a joint venture between The European Tour and IMG and is the single largest producer and distributor of TV golf programming in the world, producing in HD over 40 live European Tour events as well as 46 minute highlights programmes from each European Tour tournament each year, the magazine "European Tour Weekly" as well as award-winning live Ryder Cup coverage. ETP also produces live coverage of The Senior Open Championship, plus highlights shows from several Senior Tour and Challenge Tour events each year. This huge golf portfolio ,together with coverage of the World Golf Championships (in certain territories), is distributed by ETP to broadcasters around the world.

About SIS
SIS is one of the world’s leading companies in the television broadcasting industry. It is the foremost supplier of television programming and data services to the UK and Ireland betting industry. The company’s broadcast business, SIS LIVE, has the largest satellite uplink fleet in Europe and is the largest outside broadcast provider in the UK. It offers a complete broadcasting solution including onsite outside broadcast facilities, global distribution, satellite internet and IP provision, special camera systems, wireless camera solutions and broadcast systems integration. SIS LIVE designs, manufactures and sells an award-winning range of satellite and broadcast products. The company covers 100,000 hours of live events worldwide each year and credits include the America’s Cup, Formula One, Wimbledon Championships, Glastonbury Festival and European Tour Golf, and delivers approximately 80% of live news feeds across the UK.