Percival Molson Memorial Stadium is a 25,000-seat outdoor football stadium in Montreal, Canada. Owned by McGill University, Molson Stadium is home to the McGill Redmen of the Quebec University Football League and the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. The stadium opened in 1919, and has seen a number of upgrades over the years, most recently with a new audio system featuring HARMAN JBL VERTEC® line arrays and AE Series loudspeakers. Solotech, a systems integrator with eight locations in Canada, the U.S. and China, handled the design and installation.

With only one week to go before Sportcal's '20 Years of Sport', when over 200 leading sports executives will gather to reflect on the last 20 years of sport and discuss and debate what the next 20 years might hold for the sports industry, Sportcal is delighted to announce that Francis Tellier, CEO of HBS, Paul Bristow, Managing Director of deltatre Media and Melcior Soler, consultant and former head of sports rights acquisition for Sogecable, will be joining the Media, Internet and Technology panel.

Presteigne Charter, one of the world’s leading broadcast dry hire and systems rental specialist has been awarded the prestigious contract to supply the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) facilities for the 34th America’s Cup World Series, a global programme of regattas ahead of the legendary America’s Cup itself. The contract has been awarded on the basis of a very strong technical proposal, the reputation of Presteigne Charter and the experience of our personnel and engineering team.

The 2011 IIHF World Championship faced off on 29 April in Bratislava and Košice, Slovakia. Until 15 May 2011, 16 teams will play a tournament of 56 games to establish this year’s world champion.

HTN Communications LLC (HTN) today announced that MSG Networks, regional cable television networks serving the New York metropolitan area, has extended its contract with HTN. Under the terms of the contract, HTN will continue to provide A/V backhaul services for MSG's coverage of seven professional sports teams, with feeds managed and monitored from HTN's state-of-the-art New York City technical operations center, and for the network's simulcast of WFAN's "Boomer and Carton" show.

GlobeCast today announced that, during the busy cricket season of March and April, it successfully deployed to two major cricket events — the ICC Cricket World Cup and the IPL Twenty20 Cricket currently in play.

Always looking for a sharper edge, Pacific Broadcast Pty Ltd., a full service production company in Melbourne, Australia, is catchin’ some waves with eight Grass Valley™ LDK 8000 Elite cameras and a Kayak™ HD video production switcher to capture the action at some of the hottest championship surfing events around the globe.

After the Criterium International race in Corsica on 26th and 27th of March, the schedule was heavy for the Euro Media France RF team also in April. On the schedule were two operations carried out under the summer sun: the Paris Marathon and the Paris - Roubaix cycling race.

When we think of the sound of sport on TV or radio, it's generally commentary. But what's around the commentary? Broadcast sport would be nothing without the crowds, the kicks, the thwacks and the grunts. On Saturday 30 April 2011 at 20:00h GMT and on Monday 02 May 2011 at 15:00 GMT Peregrine Andrews will discuss with six sound engineers from films, games and live sports on BBC Radio 4. This programme is about those sounds and why they matter.

Megahertz (MHz), an international independent systems integrator and part of the KIT digital family, has received tremendous acclaim for its production line for Racecourse Technical Services Ltd (RaceTech), the innovative racecourse services provider. The first two HD production vehicles off the MHz line had their inaugural outings in recent weeks at two of the UK’s most prestigious racing fixtures — the Cheltenham Festival and the Aintree Grand National. All three vehicles were built to provide the production facilities for Racing UK Ltd, the premier independent horseracing broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. The third and final OB vehicle came off the MHz production line last week.

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.

The organisational guidelines for the final round of the 2014–16 European Football Championship were presented this week at the first meeting of the UEFA EURO 2016 steering group, held at the headquarters of the French Football Federation (FFF) in Paris.

When the Boston Red Sox began their 2011 Major League Baseball season with a weekend series opener against the New York Yankees on April 8th, the HD action was transmitted wirelessly to Fenway Park’s new outfield video boards with VISLINK News and Entertainment‘s LINK 6.5 GHz four-input HD wireless transmission and camera control system.

The closer it gets to the 6th SPONSORS Sports Media Summit, the more top decision-makers not wanting to miss out on the branch meet of the year there are. Thus the organisers look forward to welcoming yet another sports media industry heavyweight to the event taking place on 19 May at the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, namely Stefan Kürten.

Late March saw Hong Kong host the 35th annual Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens tournament, at which 24 international rugby teams competed in front of thousands of fans for the events prestigious Cup, Plate, Bowl and Shield. For the sixth year, Lighthouse provided LED screens to bring all the action in unsurpassed detail to the Hong Kong Stadium North Stand and Sevens Village at the Indian Recreation Club.