The captivating live coverage of this year’s UEFA football championships, Euro2012 in Ukraine and Poland, was supported by outside broadcast (OB) trucks from across Europe that used more multiformat high-definition (HD) and super slow-motion cameras from Grass Valley™ than any other manufacturer.

European champions Spain must negotiate a tough group including the Czech Republic if they are to defend their title in Poland and Ukraine after Sunday's UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying draw in Warsaw.

570 days before the start of UEFA EURO 2012, the cloud of secrecy surrounding the official mascot was today lifted at a special ceremony at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. After Trix and Flix in Austria and Switzerland in 2008, Europe’s next festival of football will have a new duo to bring it luck. Dressed in red/white and yellow/blue football strips, the dynamic twins wear the national colours of the two host countries, Poland and Ukraine.

UEFA today announced an agreement with ESPN in the United States of America and TSN in Canada for the broadcasting rights of UEFA EURO 2012 and 2016.

UEFA has selected Gearhouse Broadcast to deliver their Technical Operations Centres (TOCs) and Cable Interconnection Rooms (CIR) as part of their comprehensive installation at each of the ten EURO 2016 venues located in Paris, Saint-Denis, Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse. Gearhouse broadcast has also provided a special cameras and EVS slow-motion operations facility at each venue.

The most challenging part of having a final with as much international interest as the UEFA Champions League Final in Wembley Stadium was that the main compound is not large enough to accommodate all of the porta cabins and HD OBVan units required. So while the host compound is tucked nicely within the stadium the 11 other broadcasters were located in the green parking lot. That required a massive fibre infrastructure to connect not only the two locations to each other but also to the eight pitch-view studios that were installed inside the stadium.

Today UEFA has announced the renewal of media rights agreements for the UEFA Champions League 2012-15 in the United Kingdom to ITV and Sky Sports.

Following the successful fan-based activities organised in Paris (2006), Athens (2007), Moscow (2008) and Rome (2009) during the previous years, the UEFA Champions Festival opens its doors for the public this year at the heart of the Spanish capital and welcomes all Madrileños, Spanish, finalists’ fans and city visitors to a week-long celebration of football which will be staged from Saturday 15 May to Saturday 22 May, closing just a few hours before the final takes place at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu of Madrid.

Following the successful delivery of the transmission services for the 31 Matches of UEFA EURO 2012, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and Eurovision announced today an exclusive, multiyear partnership for live, global audiovisual transmission services.

Host Broadcast Services (HBS), a fully owned subsidiary of Infront Sports & Media, has been selected by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to serve as host broadcaster of the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, which will be held in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18 to 22 February. HBS has appointed Euro Media France to provide the technical platform.

ClearTV has developed a prominent partnership with Branded Cities to amplify content across the Branded Cities digital-out-of-home network of iconic media destinations in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver and Phoenix. Branded Cities Network (BCN) is a digital spectacular media company with iconic signage in iconic destinations throughout the United States. In addition to the Branded Cities inventory of iconic static signs, BCN has added the "next level" of out of home, utilizing new technologies to allow advertisers to partner with BCN to create interactive and engaging content

twofour54 intaj, the media production arm of twofour54, alongside Broadcast Solutions Group (BSG), have been awarded the television production management of the 21st Arabian Gulf Cup Tournament, the region’s biennial football tournament, which is taking place in Bahrain from 5th to 18th January 2013.

CROATEL was selected by Infront to carry out the host broadcasting of the Men's EHF EURO 2018 in Croatia. Croatel was responsible for the complete TV broadcasting of all 47 matches into 175 territories by at least 130 media outlets. In addition to the core handball markets in Europe, the event was broadcasted live throughout South, Central and North America, as well as to the UK, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The cumulative TV audience was more than 1.6 billion viewers for the tournament.

Australia moved to the top of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship leaderboard on Sunday as Matt Hall defeated Japan’s home hero Yoshihide Muroya in the very first round in Chiba on the way to his second consecutive race victory. Michael Goulian of the USA claimed his third podium of the year in second, while the Czech Republic’s Martin Šonka got his season back on track with third.

Pagès is a multiple Red Bull X-Fighters champion as well as an X Games gold medallist and he brought his full repertoire to a secret location for his latest project. Just 20cm apart from man and flying machine, Pagès unleashed his usual array of flicks, tricks and turns on a man-made course, with compatriot Panaiva’s custom-built drone completely in tandem.