Within days of their manufacture, four of Yamaha’s new CL series consoles were given a very high profile assignment in the challenging environment of four football stadiums at the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships. Four M7CLs were also specified for the tournament.

Camera Corps Q-Ball compact all-weather robotic pan/tilt/zoom heads have been chosen by a major UK-based outside-broadcast company as commentator cameras at the 2012 Wimbledon tennis tournament.

German football fans can follow the matches of their national team not only on television. ARD Radio also broadcasts live from the UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. André Siems and Guido Ringel provided the live commentary for the opening match against Portugal, while the classic face-off between Holland and Germany was tackled by Armin Lehmann and Edgar Endres. Four days later, Edgar Endres and Michael Augustin covered the last group match against Denmark. Throughout these broadcasts, ARD’s technical staff relied on Lawo equipment to provide their listeners with the best audio experience possible.

When Opening Day festivities commenced at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services, had just wrapped up a major broadcast infrastructure overhaul for the facility, a project that was completed in less than two months. To ensure the 18-year-old ballpark had full broadcast capabilities, Bexel provided an infrastructure makeover that included more than 70,000 feet of new triax cable while also adding significant audio and fiber to many positions in the venue.

As is becoming usual, the Mediapro Group worked closely together with Formula One Management (FOM) to provide the very best coverage of the F1 European Grand Prix which took place over the 22nd, 23rd and 24th June on the Valencia Street Circuit.

For more than three years Daniel Fuehr, UEFA host broadcast venue and operations manager, TV production unit, and the rest of the venue-operations team at UEFA have had the daunting task of making sure UEFA Euro 12’s eight venues across Poland and the Ukraine meet not only the needs of the core host-broadcast feed seen around the world but those of dozens of broadcasters from Europe and beyond who are on-site to add a personal touch to the broadcasts.

This year's ITU World Triathlon Series will take place from April till October 2012 in 8 different countries. Alfacam and its daughter wireless company Eurolinx cover 2 of the 8 competitions : Madrid in co-production with ISB TV and Kitzbühel in co-production with Tri Austria Event- und Management GmbH.

Summer 2012 is to be an exciting time for the UK OB industry. With a packed sporting schedule it is hands on deck over the coming months, with all the major players present throughout the summer. This in turn means that Calrec’s desks will be in abundance too.

"Resonice" was a seven minute projection work created for the 2012 IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) World Championship games Opening Ceremony staged at Hartwall Arena, Helsinki Finland. Lighting and concept designer Mikki Kunttu used 2 x grandMA2 light consoles and an MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) for control.

Right in time for the kick-off of one of the highest profile sport events in the world, the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (EURO 2012), LiberoVision, a Vizrt company, launched version 5.0 of its flagship product, Libero Highlight. As over 100 million viewers worldwide watch 16 European nations vying for the title, various broadcasters around the globe are utilizing LiberoVision’s 3D sport analysis software to break down the game’s key moments.

Brainstorm Multimedia has announced that IDS, a division of SMT, used Brainstorm’s 3D real-time eStudio render engine to power its graphics for the Roland Garros Tennis Championship in Paris.

NBCUniversal will provide 5,535 hours of coverage for the 2012 London Olympics across NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo, NBCOlympics.com, two specialty channels, and the first-ever 3D platform, an unprecedented level that surpasses the coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by nearly 2,000 hours. It was also announced today that NBC will broadcast 272.5 hours of coverage, the most ever for an Olympic broadcast network, largely attributable to an increase in daytime coverage.

From the All-Star Game to the Stanley Cup finals, Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division, and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services, has been building a successful partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL). Throughout the season, the league has increasingly involved Bexel in the planning of its broadcast productions, enabling the NHL to take full advantage of Bexel’s wide spectrum of offerings, including broadcast-infrastructure streamlining, frequency coordination, engineering expertise and state-of-the-art broadcast equipment rentals.

The European Football Championship will take place from 8 June to 1 July 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. As the main football competition of the year, the tournament will be broadcasted in more than 200 territories around the world. Alfacam has been chosen by UEFA Productions to facilitate coverage of all the games played in Kyiv and Lviv. As well as 6 “group stage” games, the Belgian company will cover a quarter final and the final of the championship.

never.no announced that MTV3, one of the largest commercial broadcasters in Finland, is using the never.no Interactivity Suite (IS) during 2012 IIHF hockey matches to harvest related social media content from its second-screen app and sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and incorporate that content into its hockey broadcasts.