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.

Blackmagic Design today announced BP Satellite Solutions is providing RF camera services to broadcasters televising the FIA Formula One World Championship using Blackmagic broadcast infrastructure products, including the Compact Videohub and Videohub Smart Control. Commentary teams from TV Globo, RTL Germany, ZDF Sport, VIASAT (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) and MTV3 Finland are using the solution to present wirelessly from the F1 paddock, pitlane and starting grid.

Over the last 22 years, the Golden Podium Awards, created by Georges Bertellotti, have awarded the directors of the world’s best sports TV images of the year. The ceremony of the Golden Podium Awards was held on Tuesday 16 October 2012 at 19:00 in presence of London 2012 Olympic medalists and personalities from the sports and media world. This year, it was presented by Mary Patrux and Darren Tulett (beIN Sport).

As announced today by Ms. Amparo Di Fede, General Manager of SPORTEL, the market has closed doors on another high with 2409 participants, representing 980 companies of 75 nations. Overall presents another significant increase of 20% of new companies compared to 2011!

Austria's Felix Baumgartner earned his place in the history books on Sunday after overcoming concerns with the power for his visor heater that impaired his vision and nearly jeopardized the mission. Baumgartner reached an estimated speed of 1,342.8 km/h (Mach 1.24) jumping from the stratosphere, which when certified will make him the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall and set several other records* while delivering valuable data for future space exploration.

Broadcast Sports Inc., (BSI) a leading developer and service provider of wireless camera, audio and communication systems, provided a handheld radio camera and a wireless Pan Tilt Roll Zoom camera to film the Quiksilver Pro France surfing competition. This elite tour event featured surfers from around the world competing on 15-20 foot waves.

Riedel provides the communications infrastructure for some of the largest international sports and entertainment events in the world including the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Euro, the Eurovision Song Contest, the Tour de France and the Formula 1. As well as supplying thousands of radios and intercom stations to allow the events personnel to communicate with each other, Riedel also provides some of the facilities for transmitting video and audio for broadcast.

Sports media business is undergoing rapid change, bringing with it some tough challenges for today’s broadcasters. EVS Sports360° helps Production companies to successfully overcome these challenges by combining the best of broadcast and media technologies to shape the future of sports TV.

iStreamPlanet, a leading provider of live and on-demand streaming-video solutions, today announced that Khurram Siddiqui, iStreamPlanet's VP and general manager over Europe, will participate in a panel discussion entitled "TV Anywhere: 2014 Technology Forecast" at Sportel Monaco, the international sports convention for television and new media. The session will take place Oct. 16 at 5-6 p.m.

Last Thursday on the 20th of September, a press conference organized by SPORTELMonaco took place at the CNOSF in Paris.

At this year’s International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, MotoGP™ rights holder Dorna Sports and Fujifilm have proudly exhibited its first joint-collaboration miniature lens, which has been implemented in the High Definition OnBoard footage seen since the start of the 2012 season.

W-DMX™ recently took control at the 5th TAFISA World Sport for All Games held in Siauliai, Lithuania. Some 1,200 athletes from over 60 countries and regions participated in traditional games and sports (TSG) from all over the globe.

Sports Video Group Europe will produce two in-depth conference panels at SPORTELMonaco, the premier sport media industry fair, on 16 October, at the Grimaldi Forum of Monaco.

If you're a fan of live action sports video, it's a good bet you've seen the work of Action Sports Productions. For more than 12 years, ASP has provided live multi-camera HD broadcasts, webcasts, and post production for some of the world's most high-profile events in surfing, skateboarding, motocross, and more. It's a challenging environment, and as ASP's founder Jay Johnson points out, there's no green screen in the real world.

London 2012 set a new benchmark for the coverage of sport. More action was delivered to audiences worldwide across more platforms and devices, creating a menu of content with the consumer in control of what they watched and when and where they watched it.