Table Tennis, while an Olympic sport, and hugely popular in Asia, is not so well known in Europe. Getting a broadcast slot for this even at national level of the sport is not easy, especially in the UK. Therefore, working with Table Tennis England, the national governing body of the sport, it was decided to ‘experiment’ and broadcast the recent England v Greece European Qualifying match directly on FaceBook Live, using the popular ‘Sportbible’ FaceBook page.

Even though you’re doing your part, TV viewing is slipping. Forrester’s Jim Nail recently reported that the ratings of top shows have declined an average of 25 percent over the past five years. Even NBC reported that TV viewing of this year’s Winter Olympic Games was down six percent, compared to the viewing audience numbers from 2014. We have to look behind the gross numbers to explain the apparent downturn.

iStreamPlanet, the leader in live, Internet managed broadcast software, services and solutions, and Haivision, a global leader in advanced video networking and IP video distribution solutions, announced today the availability of the Go-Live Package, a turnkey, end-to-end, live streaming and cross platform video playback solution for the London 2012 Olympic Games rights-holding broadcasters (RHBs).

It’s not everyday you get to turn on the TV and watch a regatta (rowing competition). As a seldom-televised sport, rowing doesn’t get as much love as other action sports do on television, despite being just as historic and having fans all around the world.

Content will achieve unprecedented global reach, empowering content creators to push boundaries and think beyond historical geographical and technical barriers.  2020 will see more smaller service providers enter the market serving a particular niche as audience fragmentation increases. The streaming format enables content owners and rights holders to reach global audiences in a cost effective way that simply wouldn’t have been possible before.

At NAB 2016 Vizrt will demonstrate their latest integrations of graphics and asset management tools together with the Adobe® professional video applications. The new workflows provide an innovative, collaborative graphic and video editing experience employing a new generation of Vizrt panels within the Adobe apps.
 

Streamstar, the trendsetting company that brought professional quality streaming and live production capabilities to market at an unbeatable price point, is poised to amaze again with the release of Streamstar® X7 at IBC 2016.  X7 packs powerful functionality and user-friendly features into the tiniest form-factor for an ultra-affordable, easy-to-operate system. The latest in Streamstar’s X series delivers peak performance to a broad audience comprised of sports broadcasters, production companies, houses of worship, educational institutions, and any type of broadcast facility in-between. Streamstar will also debut SCOREPLUS SERVER, a hardware solution that incorporates Streamstar SCOREPLUS software, and Streamstar SW 3.5, their newest software release that offers a full range of features. All products will be demonstrated at IBC in Stand 12.F31.

Streamstar®, a pioneer developer of advanced live production and streaming tools, is leading the charge once again by offering a path to increased control and connectivity with the integration of NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI™) into all of its product lines. NDI releases video productions from the technical and physical limitations of standard broadcast infrastructures, enabling interconnected production workflows and facilitating an easy transition to video over IP.
 

Streamstar®, award-winning developer of advanced live production and streaming tools, is making x-tremely affordable broadcasting available to those with even the most modest budgets with the launch of Streamstar X2, an x-traordinary live production and streaming studio. Streamstar X2 is designed to bring a reasonably priced broadcast system to organizations with less demanding requirements, such as individual schools, single churches or local sports clubs. Streamstar X2 will be introduced at NAB 2017 with the world’s first live demonstrations to be conducted in Booth SL 6124.

Redwood, California – April 4, 2016 -- Streamstar®, a pioneer developer of advanced live production and streaming tools, continues to break barriers by bringing a professional caliber live production and streaming studio to market at an unbeatable price point. The compact 2RU system – Streamstar® X4 - will launch at NAB 2016 with the first live demonstrations to be conducted in Booths SL5520 and N8635-7.
“Finally! The industry has been waiting for an affordable multi-camera production and streaming studio that delivers professional results, and here it is,” proclaims Radoslav Toth, Streamstar CEO. “Streamstar X4 is a victory for every production company, large, small or medium, that needs a feature-rich system at a price point that doesn’t bust their budgets, It offers a winning trifecta of price, performance and flexibility not found in any other product in this category, and it’s all packaged in a 2RU chassis. All this for under $5000 make Streamstar X4 the best buy at NAB 2016!“
 

Finnish broadcast production company Streamteam Nordic has gone live with a new 4K/UHD remote production hub and virtual studio in Helsinki. The facility will handle all matches of the Finnish Ice Hockey League, which will be broadcasted by Finnish/Swedish telecom provider Telia via its IPTV service, set-top boxes and streaming platform, beginning with the 2018/2019 season.

Nevion, the award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that technical broadcast production service provider Streamteam Nordic Oy, has deployed Nevion Virtuoso to help the IP-based remote production (aka REMI in North America) of the Finnish Elite ice-hockey league, SM-liiga.  Nevion’s flagship software defined media nodes are used to transport feeds in real-time from the ice-hockey arenas across the country to the central production facility in Helsinki. Nevion also provided professional services for the network architecture design for the project, as well as for the deployment.

Innovason customers can now rely on the high-quality support of an experienced crew in two locations: qualified service engineers in France and Germany can be contacted directly during business hours and also, in urgent cases, until late at night or at the weekend, thus guaranteeing rapid and efficient support.

Cinegy, which develops and produces media asset management products that are used in flagship productions globally, has announced that its media asset management and active archive solution “Cinegy Archive” is used as a central part of BBC Studios and Post Production’s workflow for Strictly Come Dancing.

Devon, UK based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialist S+H Technical has supplied 1100 square metres of lush red velvet Pea-Light Starcloth containing approximately 6000 inbuilt lights, plus an additional 6000 Pea Lights integrated into the set walls for ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, staged in BBC TV’s TC1 studio, Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, London.