As it has for the past several years, live sports production company F&F Productions, based in Clearwater, Fla. will send two of its most advanced high-definition (HD) production trucks outfitted with Grass Valley™ equipment, to cover the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four Weekend Tournament (March 31-April 1) and National Championship Game (April 2) for CBS Sports, with a third production truck dedicated to ESPN in order to supply the live international feed.

The 2012 edition of the IBU Biathlon World Championships marks thefourth time that Ruhpolding has hosted the event, with previous editions in1979, 1985 and 1996. The junior World Championships in 1979 and 1993 were alsoheld here. Ruhpolding is a regular stop on the annual Biathlon World Cup tour,with 28 visits to this Bavarian village over the years. For the 2012 WorldChampionships a new stadium was built as well as to meet the demands of the future.

The SPONSORs Sports Media Summit will soon be upon us, and a whole host of intriguing, high-profile speakers have already confirmed their attendance for the event taking place in Düsseldorf on May 24. The organiser is delighted to have also won Jürgen Lenz as a speaker.

The first ever SPORTEL to be held in South America was a sensational success! General Manager of SPORTEL, Ms. Amparo Di Fede announced this morning that SPORTELRio 2012 has exceeded all expectations. “It was SPORTEL’s goal to set a platform for the world and Brazil. Due to the upcoming FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games Brazil has moved into the spotlight of the global sports media industry. Brazil seeks partners globally and the world is keen to work with Brazil.” Ms. Di Fede continues.

Cinegy and Veritas Produktion are pleased to announce the recent deployment of Cinegy Archive for production and asset management at Sports Editing Sweden. Sports Editing Sweden (SES) is a sport editing production company providing media production services to Sweden’s most popular and elite sports league, the Swedish Hockey League.

UEFA is delivering the host broadcast, additional pre and post tournament material, unilaterals and what it is starting to call Fantertainment (big screen events, essentially). It’s doing that from 31 matches in eight stadiums, some of which are yet to host their first game, using four production and eight technical crews, all in all amounting to 1,355 people on the host broadcast side of things writes Andy Stout for SVGE.

Sports fans the world over associate the name “Bayern Munich” with soccer; yet in basketball, too, having won the German championship already in 1954 and 1955, the club is capable of great things and ambitious of a tradition to compare with that established in the beautiful game by the likes of Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, and Oliver Kahn.

The TV and New Media panels, co-produced with Sports Video Group, will include two in-depth sessions taking place on Tuesday 13th March.

The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

A shot is fired. The target is hit. Cheering breaks out everywhere. Every hit is celebrated frenetically by the audience. Magdalena Neuner continues on to the last lap of the sprint competition which she will finish in 1st place.

On December 9th 2011 dancers, musicians, athletes, and falconers both on foot and on horseback paraded through the Khalifa Stadium in Doha (Qatar), which had been transformed into a huge screen for the opening ceremony of the 12th Arab Games.

SportStats CG and Studio CG, totally developed by wTVision will be showed during the three days of the event.

Veteran mobile production company LYON Video helped produce the 2012 season opener of the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship from St. Paul, Minn. on Jan. 14, with the latest live high-definition (HD) production equipment from Grass Valley™. The Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship now moves on to two other countries—The Netherlands and Sweden—before an eventual winner is crowned after the final race in Quebec City, Canada, on March 17.

Gearhouse Broadcast completes the successful delivery of comprehensive technical facilities for the Australian Open host broadcast and unilateral broadcasters at this year’s Asian/Pacific Grand Slam.

Boxing legend visits SPORTEL, as Octapixx LIVE celebrates second season of “Prime/Time Boxing™” . Octapixx LIVE is pleased to commemorate the start of the second season of its international boxing television series, “Prime/Time Boxing™” (48 x 120’), by welcoming legendary Brazilian boxer, Acelino “Popo” Freitas” to SPORTELRio on Monday, March 12, 2012.