The Ross XPression 2D/3D CG and Motion Graphics System was tapped to provide live graphics for coverage of the 2011 Nike U.S. Open of Surfing from Huntington Beach, CA, August 1-7. Produced by Transition Productions and carried on Fuel TV in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, and Europe, as well as streamed internationally on the web, the U.S. Open is the world’s largest professional surfing competition with over 700,000 attendees. Other events during the week-long event included skateboarding and BMX competitions, music concerts, and a fashion show.

•„ The Roth Challenge is regarded by triathletes worldwide as one of the most challenging and exciting competitions the sport has to offer
•„ With 2,500 individual athletes and 500 squads from over 50 different countries competing this year, watched by over 120,000 spectators, the 2010 Roth Challenge consolidated the international reputation of the event
•„ Barowski AG provided the sound reinforcement, using Cobra-4 line arrays from DYNACORD to great effect

RT Software continues to increase its portfolio of major sporting events using its virtual graphics technology with the addition of dominant UK terrestrial horse racing broadcaster, Channel 4 Racing.

RT Software’s leading real-time 3D graphics solutions supported BT Sport’s exclusively live UEFA Champions League launch coverage last week.
 

ESPN Brazil holds the rights for the Copa do Brasil, broadcasting live fixtures for audiences in the region, as well as the rights to National and State leagues’ highlights. The broadcaster recently won the live broadcast rights to the Spanish league La Liga in a new five year deal, in addition to being awarded a brand new three year deal for English Premier League exclusive rights, with coverage starting at the start of the 2016/7 season.

RTL Newmedia is launching a revolutionary new feature on its Club RTL second-screen app, designed specifically for UEFA Champions League and Europa League viewers. The new Club RTL app – developed for iOS and Android in conjunction with Tevizz and EVS – will be available for the entire 2013-2014 season, covering both leagues

Vizrt, a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that RTL Television, a premier commercial broadcaster in Germany, will use a comprehensive array of Vizrt technologies to produce and broadcast the future football games of the German national team. RTL has regained the TV rights to broadcast the current World Cup title-holder’s games for both its qualification campaigns for the EURO 2016 tournament in France and World Cup 2018 in Russia. The same technology will be demonstrated during IBC 2014 at Vizrt’s booth 7.A10.

LMC provided a LiberoVision Analysis System for RTL’s TV production of eight games of the FIFA World Cup.

The FIFA World Cup™ always throws up a group that is a nightmare scenario for the national team coaches involved, the famous “Group of Death”. The paradox is, however, that while Portugal’s placement in Group G with Brazil is a headache for coach Carlos Queiroz it is a dream for broad­casters RTP – providing a direct head-to-head clash between the two nations on which they place the biggest emphasis.

Each FIFA World Cup™ brings new developments and innova­tions in the broadcast industry, and for Serbia’s public broad­caster RTS the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ will offer the chance to utilise SmartJog technology to aid their transmissions.

To step up their digital footprint, American football team the Pittsburgh Steelers brought in Brooklyn, NY-based KMH Integration to consult with their production team on a major facility upgrade. The task was to evaluate the team’s TV and radio production and propose facility designs and workflow changes to improve them. According to KMH Integration President Kevin Henneman, this was a typical case of the end-user’s requirements outgrowing their current systems and workflows. “Like many organizations, the Steelers started their digital efforts in social media, connecting with their fans. But they realized that the time had come to expand their digital content capabilities,” he notes. “They had a large studio space but no control room, so they literally could not do radio and TV at the same time. It was a pretty major redesign.”

UEFA ranks Holland’s Eredivisie (Honorary Division) among the ten finest football leagues in Europe. Founded in 1956, the Eredivisie comprises 18 teams who play 34 matches each in the course of the season in their quest for the league title.

The French Open tennis tournament ran from May 21 to June 9 this year, as ever, in Paris. The Tournoi de Roland Garros, as it is officially known, is one of the four Grand Slam events in the tennis calendar and was first held in 1891. The capture and distribution of sound and images from the event, which attracted massive attention worldwide, with live coverage in over 150 countries, was the responsibility of the French broadcasting giant France Télévisions.

Already well established in Asia, eGaming is becoming a global phenomenon. Dutch entertainment and sports production company Watertube.tv is producing an ambitious and innovative e-gaming competition of the popular online game League of Legends. Now in its first 10-week season on Fox Sports, Inside eSports is a Dutch College League competition held at Vue Cinema in Hilversum. By elevating the Dutch College League competition to a live broadcast, complete with referees, officials and match commentators, Inside eSports brings the excitement of electronic gaming to the broadcast audience, with a live audience in a cinema stadium.

When it comes to sheer production complexity, few live broadcasts approach the scale of the Super Bowl. The National Football League championship game is widely seen as the premier sporting event in the United States, and is closely followed in much of the rest of the world as well. 2014’s Super Bowl XLVIII was no exception. According to Nielsen Media Research, the game, carried live on Fox Sports, was watched by 111.5 million viewers in the U.S. alone, making it the most-watched program in U.S. history.