UEFA is delighted to confirm that it has secured agreements with broadcast partners who will deliver extensive coverage in over 130 territories globally for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship which begins in Denmark this weekend.

As has been the case for many years, veteran production companies Game Creek Video and NEP Supershooters will share duties in covering the 2011 NBA Finals series for ABC Sports and ESPN HD. Also, as in years past, they’ll both be using Grass Valley™ high-definition (HD) production switchers on board their respective production trucks to manage the live 720p HD telecasts and bring the fast-paced action home to viewers.

This weekend, GlobeCast successfully wrapped up its services to NBC Sports' HD coverage of the 2011 French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris.

German sound engineer Martin Stoll has purchased a Soundcraft Si Compact 24 digital console to add to the growing inventory of his production company, Bavarian-based Eggs & Bulbs GmbH.

Alfacam and Nimbus signed a multi year agreement for the provision of High Definition Equipment and technical services across various sport in Asia and the Middle East. The first result of this alliance is a contract to cover almost 750 Cricket Games over the next three years in India, worth over 20.000.000 US$.

Twelve Swedish ice hockey arenas are pumping up their crowds with a total of 72 High End Systems DML-1200s w/ Axon. The fixtures are there to loosen up the fans - to “melt the ice” so to speak - with a pre-show Intro that uses the digital lighting fixture’s features to its fullest.

Orad announced today that its versatile TrackVision sensor free sport enhancement solution is being employed by AlphaSports TV to enhance the broadcasts of the 2011 Asian 5 Nations Rugby tournament and to provide increased visibility for the title sponsor, HSBC. Throughout the tournament, Orad’s TrackVision enhancements and sponsorship placements appeared on Eurosport and Al Jazeera, as well as other networks around the world.

UEFA announced today that it has reached an exclusive agreement with Mediaset España, owner of leading commercial television channels Telecinco and Cuatro, for the broadcasting rights of all 31 matches of UEFA EURO 2012™ in Spain, home of the current European and world champions.

The MEDIAPRO group worked closely together with Formula One Management (FOM) to produce the TV signal for the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix, which took place at the Montmeló track last Sunday. For the third year running the group was the host broadcaster in Spain distributing the signal to the world’s most important TV networks around the world as well as providing logistic and technical services.

For the most important woman‘s football tournament from June 26th to July 17th 2011 in Germany Media Broadcast offers a wide range of production and transmission services to assist the TV coverage of the event.

Presteigne Charter, one of the world’s leading broadcast dry hire and systems rental specialists, has ordered three mc²56 digital audio consoles and Nova29 router from Lawo, for one of the most glamorous sporting events in the world – the inaugural America’s Cup World Series 2011-2012, a global programme of regattas designed to bring the sport of high-performance sailing to a wider audience ahead of the legendary America’s Cup itself.

The 2011 DTM season began on the first weekend of May – and once again, the world witnessed it live. For the first time, TV viewers around the globe watched the world’s most popular international touring car series in HD. The DTM, now featuring crisply-detailed close-up action and glorious, rich colours, has become a true high-definition TV experience – an innovation which has had a tremendous impact, especially in European broadcast coverage.

A consortium led by Times Internet, the web division of the newspaper publisher Times of India Group, acquired international online, mobile and radio airtime rights of the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Twenty20 cricket competition. The new webcaster appointed EVS to provide servers and content management solutions for near-live web coverage of the most-watched sporting event in India including commercial inserts.

SPORTELMonaco, the International Sports Television and New Media will take place from 10 to 13 October 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.In 2010, SPORTELMonaco attracted 2188 participants representing 922 companies from 68 countries.

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has signed a contract with ATP Media, the broadcast rights and production arm of the ATP World Tour, to provide live global distribution of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series, Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, and the ATP World Tour 500 series. Arqiva has provided ATP Media with global distribution for three years and the renewed contract is supporting ATP Media’s move to global High Definition distribution of the prestigious tennis tournaments.