Global broadcaster Aljazeera Sports Channels will use award-winning technology from satellite communication specialist Newtec and the Arab States Broadcasting Union to receive its multimedia content. The technology will be used to receive TV and data from key sporting events.

At the 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu/South Korea, KBS is producing currently up to eight hours daily for the creation of the integrated host feeds with the 16-camera HD OB truck, "HDTV-4" made by Broadcast Solutions GmbH.

When the recent Squash World Championship took place in the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn, Germany, not only were the elite of this famous sport present, but also some of the finest lighting technology products that money can buy.

SPORTEL is the International Sports Program Market for Television and NewMedia. The next edition, SPORTELMonaco, will take place from 10 to 13October 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. In 2010, SPORTELMonacoattracted 2188 participants representing 922 companies from 68 countries.

The Le Mans 24-hour endurance race is one of the most spectacular and storied events in the motorracing calendar. Since 1932, the best sports car drivers in the world have made an annual pilgrimage to the small town south-east of Paris to compete in this most gruelling of tests.

The 14th edition of the World Gymnaestrada recently concluded, drawing almost 20,000 participants from 55 nations, making it the world’s largest general gymnastics exhibition and the biggest sports event ever held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Event specialist Skynight SA of Geneva used HARMAN’s Studer Vista 5 SR console to mix the opening ceremonies while simultaneously producing a feed for television networks.

For the people of Munich, their Olympiahalle has been far and away the event location since the Olympic Games in 1972.Whether it's ice hockey, a rock concert, a riding tournament or motocross, Aida or the Dalai Lama: the Olympiahalle is always the perfect venue. It can handle up to 15,500 visitors in a converted space of at least 427,000 cubic metres.

Alfacam, operators of one of the largest outside broadcast fleet in Europe, is continuing its global expansion with major sporting contracts in India. As with all of Alfacam’s projects, the coverage depends upon Grass Valley™ cameras, including the LDK 8000 Elite and LDK 8300 Live Super Slo-Mo HD cameras.

Anton/Bauer®, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is pleased to announce it will offer around- the-clock on-site support for broadcasters throughout the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

The Ross XPression 2D/3D CG and Motion Graphics System was tapped to provide live graphics for coverage of the 2011 Nike U.S. Open of Surfing from Huntington Beach, CA, August 1-7. Produced by Transition Productions and carried on Fuel TV in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, and Europe, as well as streamed internationally on the web, the U.S. Open is the world’s largest professional surfing competition with over 700,000 attendees. Other events during the week-long event included skateboarding and BMX competitions, music concerts, and a fashion show.

CCTV Sports largely rely on EVS servers and content management technology for their host broadcasting operations of the 14th FINA World Championship in Shanghai. EVS systems are used for live OB (Outside Broadcasting) productions, IBC's (International Broadcast Centre) fast turnaround highlights and media exchange operations.

This weekend is promising very hot weather, not just for the athletes of the ICF Canoe World Championship but also for the TV crew members of the Hungarian MTV and the SIVision OBVan team (Germany) as well writes Rezso Soltesz.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, will be part of the communications setup for Summer Universiade 2011, a prestigious international multi-sport event for university athletes, taking place August 12-23 in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China. A 48-port Clear-Com Eclipse-Median digital matrix intercom, 117 V-Series control panels, three IVC-32 32-channel IP matrix cards and a ConcertTM software-based intercom system will provide a vital communications link between broadcasters working in the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) with those in the 27 sports stadiums hosting the games.

In July the Mobile Production Unit (MPE) belonging to ARD and ZDF, Germany’s nationwide public broadcasters, was put to good use at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Shanghai. Now the MPE is on its way to Korea, or, more precisely, to Daegu, where it will be used for broadcasting the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Very much on board is technology from Lawo, providing excellent audio feeds from both super sports events.

A new four-year agreement reached with the International Skating Union (ISU) means the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will exclusively manage European electronic media rights of all major ISU events until 2015.