Presented by the German Football Association’s Cultural Foundation, the ninth edition of 11mm, the International Football Film Festival from Berlin, begins on March 9th 2012 with a world premiere: Sepp Maier, former German national goalkeeper and World Cup winner, opens his private archive over two decades after Germany’s victory at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Until this moment the videos shot by Sepp Maier during the tournament have only been seen by a select group of national team players and German Football Association officials.

Representing EVS at the Football Production Summit, organised by SVG Europe on 29 February at the Stade de France in Paris, Luc Doneux – Head of APAC, EMEA & Major Sporting Events – will share his insights in a discussion panel on how football broadcast production is rapidly evolving due to new technology.

SPORTEL has partnered with Sports Video Group (SVG) to produce two, in-depth conference sessions for the largest sports media industry Market on Tuesday March 13, 2012, at the Sofitel Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Bauhaus FIBT Bob & Skeleton World Championships take center stage in the winter-sports world from Lake Placid, NY, for the next two weeks when, for the 10th time, the famed U.S. Olympic location hosts the championships for some of the world’s fastest (and craziest) winter-sports athletes writes Ken Kerschbaumer for SVG.

The International Olympic Committee inspection found "no real burning issues" in Sochi preparations for the 2014 Games, with organizers promising to complete construction of all sports venues by the end of 2012.

ATK Audiotek recently provided audio services for Super Bowl XLVI, marking the 15th straight year the company has been involved in the country’s biggest sporting event. Once again, ATK Audiotek deployed its custom-designed cart system with HARMAN’s JBL VERTEC® line arrays for the Halftime Show and Post-Game Show of the Super Bowl, held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 5, 2012.

What the four Grand Slam tournaments are to tennis, and the four Majors to golf, the Four Hills Tournament is to ski jumping. The four legs (Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen) of the Vierschanzentournee, as it's known in the vernacular, are the competitions that are the most keenly contested, the most widely watched, and in which victory carries the most prestige. Such has long been the case. In fact, this winter's was the sixtieth edition of the tournament, so the level of interest among spectators and in the media was especially high.

With six months to go until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Aggreko, the world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control solutions and the Games’ Official Temporary Energy Services Provider, is providing temporary power and technical expertise to help the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) prepare for the world’s greatest sporting event.

Already for the 2010 FIFA World Championships in South Africa and now also for the UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine ORF builds on the performance and quality of rental equipment from sono and has ordered the whole production gear for their temporary studio in Warshaw from the Munich based rental house.

As an Official Worldwide Olympic Partner, Panasonic has been given access to a number of London Prepares test events and has commissioned Tom Dunmore, former editor-in-chief of Stuff magazine to prepare a series of short videos on the test events, giving viewers behind the scenes access to London 2012.

Kyle Croxall doubled up with a second successive victory in Valkenburg as the Canadian pushes his claims to be the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Champion for 2012.

Polish technology company ESS Audio is midway through an intensive development program that will see the completion of several world-class football stadia by the time Poland co-hosts the UEFA Euro 2012 Championship (along with Ukraine) next summer. Earlier this year, ESS Audio commissioned an integrated HARMAN Professional audio solution in the new PGE Arena in Gdansk, before turning its attention to Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, the highest Category 4 Municipal Stadium in the country. ESS’s technical team engaged in a similar fast-fit installation for the rebuilding of the 42,000-capacity stadium, again sourcing most of the equipment from the HARMAN portfolio.

Deployed by the country’s largest and most experienced mobile production companies, a wide variety of live production equipment from Grass Valley™ will once again be used for this year’s highly anticipated Super Bowl XLVI high-definition telecast—as well as for a number of related programs shot during the week leading up to the big game.

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The IBU Open European Championships in Osrblie, Slovakia opened on 25 January with a big Ceremony in Brezno’s main square. Until Thursday 02 February, men, women and junior men and women will compete for European Championship medals. On 26 January, the junior athletes started with sprints, followed by the senior athletes on 27 January. On Sunday all age groups have fought for pursuit glory and all the action was covered by Reckords HD OBVan REC 5 HD in high definition. For transmission the Signal was down-converted to SD.