SP Telefilm Productions is one of Brazilian’s leading TV-production companies specialising in all types of production with a major emphasis on soccer.

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Wimbledon – the place at which the most sensational and dramatic chapters of tennis history have been written. Wimbledon symbolizes everything tennis has to offer: euphoria, drama, glamour and tradition. For every year since 1876, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club has hosted the tournament at the end of June and the beginning of July, gaining the keen interest of sports fans around the world. It's a competition with a highly individual flavour, not simply because all the matches are played on grass but also because of the strictness with which its many traditions are respected.

The organizer of this year's Gymnaestrada in Lausanne installed a comprehensive audio and communications infrastructure. The system consisted of a RockNet digital audio network and communications infrastructure comprising Artist digital matrix intercom and TETRA digital trunked radio from Riedel Communications.

The Award Winners for this year’s prestigious SVG Europe Sport Technology Achievement Awards have been announced, with honours going to those involved with last year’s Ryder Cup coverage (in both 2D and 3D), this year’s Wimbledon 3D coverage, and to Formula One Management for consistently pushing back the boundaries in its ongoing coverage of Formula One. The Awards will be presented at the Sixth Annual Sport Award Reception at IBC on Saturday 10 September at the RAI Centre, beginning at 17:30.

LYON Video, the Columbus, OH-based mobile production company, supplied its latest high-definition truck (Lyon 12), complete with Grass Valley™ HD production equipment, and a “B” unit to cover the 2011 ESPN RISE Games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.

It was a spectacular end to the world’s toughest adventure race today with a close duel between two athletes sparring for second place.

NewTek 3Play was used to broadcast in HD the 2011 BMX French National Championship on big screens, on July 2nd and 3rd. More than 1200 riders were on the starting line for the most important race of the year. This year, gathering the elite of the BMX bikers, the race was fierce and included champions like Joris Daudet, two times Cruiser World Champion and Laeticia Le Corguille, world champion and Olympic silver medalist.

Snell today announced that Russia's ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) production company is building the company's Sirius routers and Kahuna multiformat production switchers into the platform that will provide TV, radio, Internet, and photographic coverage of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Day 7 of the Red Bull X-Alps dawned with the news that race leader Christian Maurer had been served with a 24-hour time penalty. During the night, the race committee ran a detailed analysis of Maurer’s track logs, which should that he had entered a forbidden zone near Locano airport by a few metres: enough to incur a penalty and athletes rushed to close down the massive margin Maurer had built yesterday.

At this year’s Tour de France the German publicbroadcasting network ZDF used a fiber based MediorNet system from RiedelCommunications to connect its DSNG and the main OB truck.

The Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the organizer of the Tour de France, and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), its broadcast partner for Europe, are reporting very high audiences since the start of this year's Tour de France.

Women's association football was long subject to ridicule, the prevailing myth being that women lacked the technique and fortitude needed to play good soccer… The recent women's world cup tournament in Germany firmly booted these myths into oblivion, as matches between the world’s best women's soccer teams captivated sports fans around the globe with remarkable athletic prowess, drama, and excitement of the highest order.

GlobeCast announced today that it is on-site at the Tour de France to provide the French national broadcaster France Télévisions with a complete solution to broadcast every stage of the race. GlobeCast vehicles and teams are present from Saturday, July 2 to Sunday, July 24 to deliver live coverage of the world-renowned cycling competition.

While most big sports leagues are taking their summer break, LiberoVision continues its expansion into new markets and products. While new products will be revealed at IBC 2011, new markets have already been entered!