Belgian media networking and storage company SDNsquare has collaborated with UK-based  CTV Outside Broadcasts (CTV OB), one of the largest and well-respected OB companies in Europe, to entirely upgrade their latest OB Unit to a fully modular ST2110 IP-based infrastructure. The refurbished and IP-based OB12 truck hit the road in September 2020. When CTV OB needed to re-equip two of its trucks to meet the broadcast challenges of the foreseeable future, the company turned to SDNsquare and its unique GRID providing software-based IP network management and enabling a full non-blocking of converged IP networks with guaranteed, predictable and reliable QoS.

With an enviable pedigree of providing site wide fibre networks for major sporting opening and closing ceremonies, Optocore has now further boosted its impressive portfolio after a major system was deployed at the South East Asia Games in Singapore.

The Customer: Axis Films, a production company for tier-1 sports
The Application: 3-day live broadcast of MotoGP race, Australia
The Challenge: Broadcast transmission in wireless RF congested environment
The Solution: ABonAir’s AB310
The Result: A reliable and stable coverage

Second Year in a row the Red Bull Air Race World Championship program earned the prestigious Sports Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Technical Team Remote Production". The Emmy was handed over to Imre Sereg yesterda night during the 31st Annual Sports Emmy Awards celebration by the National Academy of Television Arts and Siences.

The era of the Beach Volley Vikings is showing no signs of stopping as the new superstars of the sand Anders Mol and Christian Sørum shot to the top of the world rankings after storming to the A1 Major Vienna presented by Swatch title.

Following the completion of the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifiers, UEFA today announced the seedings to be used for the Final Draw, taking place at the Palace of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 2 December at 19:00 local time (18:00 CET).

SegevSport is a real-time graphics service provider based in Israel, utilising data to create on-air graphics for sports, election coverage, game shows, news and any other broadcast program requiring graphics driven by data. As they provide a service rather than a product, SegevSport operators travel around the world to work with the local broadcasters for each live event.

When national football teams from all over the world line up to compete for victory in Brazil, several hundred million TV viewers will be watching live and many will be more than happy to stay up all night in order to follow the action. During the tournament, the production company Host Broadcast Services (HBS) will be using wireless and wired microphones from Sennheiser, including the new Esfera surround microphone system, to capture the stadium atmosphere as realistically as possible and to provide the matches with thrilling commentaries and pitchside reports.

At this year’s US Open of Surfing, a nine-day broadcast event in which the top surfers in the world compete for a $100,000 top prize, digital Sennheiser MKH microphones were on hand to capture every sonic detail of the excitement – which also included a BMX riding and skating competition.

Jonathan Freed is a freelance, Emmy-award winning network mixer who has been in the audio industry for almost 40 years. In his current role as a senior audio engineer for the NBA, his team is responsible for setting up and executing the live broadcast mix for major network basketball games, while ensuring that broadcast microphones both on and off the court are picking up every nuance of audio to support the camera angles for the live feed.

Considered the ‘pinnacle of yachting’, the America’s Cup is not only the oldest but also the most difficult sports trophy to win. The 2021 Cup, which took place in the Hauraki Gulf off the coast of Auckland, saw the defender Emirates Team New Zealand race against the challenger Luna Rossa PRADA Pirelli, winning by 7:3. Communications specialist Riedel was entrusted with the overarching technology concept for broadcast and race management for the host broadcast partner circle-o. To complement its hardware and software technologies, Riedel deployed custom-made Sennheiser microphones for the coverage of the prestigious sailing event, which saw the two innovative German companies collaborate closely on this extraordinary project.

Aniol Serrasolses travelled at nearly 100km/h down a high-speed snowy descent, scythed across the forest floor and ended with a world-first flip off a waterfall.
The Spanish kayaker pulled off the feat over a 25-kilometre descent on Chile’s Villarrica volcano. Here is all you need to know:

Vitec Group brands Sachtler and Vinten are collaborating with local distributor Telemedia to establish a full service facility in Johannesburg throughout the World Cup. The centre is being led by Christian Huber, sales and service support manager for Sachtler and Vinten.

“The FIFA Broadcaster Servicing Team is the first point of contact to the Media Rights Licensees for any day-to-day business in regards to commercial is­sues but also for the han­dling of accreditation. An­other important duty is the monitoring of the TV and broadband transmissions during the event,” explains Bettina Vecchi of the FIFA Broadcaster Servicing Team (FBST) – the core members of which are permanently based at the IBC, on the east side of the African Plaza.

Horse racing in the image quality of the German Bundesliga - to convince TV networks and sponsors horse racing needs to be produced in high definition. Baden Racing together with his partner RESE Group, already self-proclaimed as the supplier of the best pictures in the German horse racing sports, stepped into the future with the first HD production of the Grand-Prix day in Iffezheim.