As consistent at the FIFA World Cup™ as their continental col­leagues Brazil are on the pitch, Chile’s TVN have broadcast every FIFA World Cup™ since 1970. “The World Cup is a brand for TVN,” ex­plained Sports Executive Producer Michael Boys.

“Football is not tremendously popular in New Zealand,” admits Rodney Haugh, Project Engineer for Special Events with TVNZ at the IBC, “or rather, it was not tremendously popular until the All Whites qualified. That popularity has definitely grown with the opening result - viewing stats were through the roof back home.”

Approximately 25 tonnes of equipment and some 133 people have been brought to South Africa by SRG for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. They have been split almost evenly between two bases of opera­tion: the IBC and the SRG Me­dia Centre at Vanderbijlpark, which was next to the Swiss team base at Emerald Resort before the team’s departure on 28 June following their exit at the end of the group stages.

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ reaches its latter stages attention naturally begins to turn to Brazil’s hosting of the event in 2014, and for broadcasters in the host country that should make life a lot easier, right? “Well, in terms of the logistics we could think it will be easier but it will not be because Brazil is such a huge country,” explained TV Globo’s Executive Producer Fernanda Conte. “We will be able to have more people involved, not that we don’t have a big crew here, and, naturally, it is an advantage to be in our home country and speaking our own language.”

This weekend saw the European Canoeing Championship take place on the Trasona reservoir, in Corvera (Asturias). Asturmedia was appointed by the Spanish Canoeing Federation to be the host broadcaster for the event. Among the TV channels from more than 60 countries who broadcast the event were: Eurosport, Eurosport HD, Sport 1 (Lithuania), TPA, TPA HD, ARD, Hungarian TV, etc.

On 4th June the broadcast transmission specialist Josef Rade and his production team, consisting of a cutter and a cameraman, picked up their SNG at the port of Durban. They made a few minor changes to the production technology in the SNG and also had to configure the parts that were flown out from Germany at the last minute. Then finally it was off to the North-East of South Africa, where the SNG North team underwent its final test in Johannesburg on 7th June and was given the all clear for “unrestricted transmission readiness”.

A Spanish flag with the words ‘Plaza de España’ adorns the wall in the corridor of Hall 6 which houses the radio broadcasters from Iberia. How­ever, if Spain defeat Germany tonight to reach the FIFA World Cup™ Final there will be no party on the Plaza as they will be busy relaying the atmosphere, ambience and action from Durban and various Spanish cities to their listeners.

It is the job of the HBS audio team to provide the aural landscape of each live match in creating an ambient backdrop for commentary and recreating the overall sense of being at the stadium for the viewing and listening public.

In order to maximize the coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have increased the capacity of their joint production with the deployment of EVS instant tapeless solutions providing access to the FIFA Media Asset Exchange (MAX) at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Johannesburg, but also to hours of custom-made content produced across South Africa with XT[2]-LSM systems installed in 6 HD OBVans from Alfacam.

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FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup was the seventh event of this years' season and took place between June 18 and June 20 in São João da Madeira, near Porto - Portugal. It was the first Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Portugal and wTVision couldn't miss it.

2006 was the last time Portugal hosted a Judo World Cup stage in their country. In June 2010 Lisbon Judo fans had free access to Campo Pequeno Arena and had the opportunity to watch the best male athletes in the world.

Since almost one month four AntelopeHD systems with four operators/engineers are being located in various cities in South Africa. Stunning replays are recorded with 500-1.000 frs/sec and are permanently stored via an EVS network as well as played out as part of the world feed produced by HBS.

Lawo’s mc²66 digital audio console is at the heart of the world championship sound gathering, mixing and international distribution operation in Johannesburg, where broadcast audio engineers have had to cope with a problem unique to the host country – the vuvuzela!

The Germany vs. England game at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa showed it once more... There is a need for a goal line super vision in soccer.