SVG Europe closed out an exciting Saturday at IBC2014 with its annual Sport Production & Technical Achievement Awards ceremony at the RAI in Amsterdam. This year’s awards celebrated the best in global live sport production, and — in many ways — the three honorees were easy selections.

On Saturday night 11th September, SVG hosted more than 200 sports industry professionals at its annual IBC Sport Reception in Amsterdam to salute the 2010 achievements of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and Host Broadcast Services (HBS). These two companies, respectively, were directly responsible for two groundbreaking 2010 productions, the Vancouver Winter Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. Manolo Romero, CEO of OBS, was on hand to accept the award for the Olympic production, while Francis Tellier, CEO of HBS, accepted the award for the World Cup broadcast.

Sky Sport HQ studio in Unterföhring will be the venue on 27 June for the annual Sky Sport Summit in cooperation with SVG Europe, hosted once more by Gert Zimmermann. A record crowd is expected for the annual Munich summit, where the title sponsor for 2019 is Broadcast Solutions and panel sponsors are AJA Video Systems and EVS. Opening remarks will be made by Fergal Ringrose, editorial director, SVG Europe; Alessandro Reitano, VP sports production, Sky Deutschland; and Antti Laurila, global sales director, Broadcast Solutions.

SPORTEL has partnered with Sports Video Group (SVG) to produce two, in-depth conference sessions for the largest sports media industry Market on Tuesday March 13, 2012, at the Sofitel Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

UEFA is delivering the host broadcast, additional pre and post tournament material, unilaterals and what it is starting to call Fantertainment (big screen events, essentially). It’s doing that from 31 matches in eight stadiums, some of which are yet to host their first game, using four production and eight technical crews, all in all amounting to 1,355 people on the host broadcast side of things writes Andy Stout for SVGE.

Images from Åre 2019 may reach in excess of 815 million households worldwide. A total of 90 cameras are used to convey the action on and off the slopes to ski fans around the globe through race broadcasting, award ceremonies and studio programs.

Sweden’s SVT and Infront will break new ground in remote production during its host production coverage of the FIS World Ski Championships 5-17 February when it sends 80 camera signals from the course via two 100 Gbps fibre circuits from Telia to three control rooms in Stockholm. Adde Granberg, SVT, director of technology, CTO, says the accomplishment at the World Ski Championships shows how far things have come since 2012 when SVT put remote production to the test for the London Olympics.

Swedish national public broadcaster SVT has utilized EVS live production technology to successfully deliver two complex and ambitious remote productions for high-profile winter sports events: The Åre 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships and the Östersund 2019 IBU World Championships Biathlon, which took place in February and March in the neighboring Swedish resorts. This presented host broadcaster SVT – one of the pioneers of remote productions – with an opportunity to remotely produce both events from its broadcast center in Stockholm, some 600 km away.

Blackmagic Design today announced that Swansea City Association Football Club (AFC) has developed its own streaming platform, SwansTV Live, with a live workflow featuring the Blackmagic URSA Broadcast and Smart Videohub 12G 40x40 router.  Joining the English Football League (EFL) Championship at the start of the 2018-19 season created a new opportunity for the football club. It could now consider live streaming its own content, something that hadn’t been an option whilst in the Premier League.

Swatch is thrilled with the news that both the women's and the men's Swatch Beach Volleyball teams have qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Proteam athletes Joana Heidrich and Nadine Zumkehr, both Swiss, and their Swatch Beach Volley Proteam colleagues from Austria, Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst, have just made a gigantic leap forward in their careers.

The Swatch FreeRide World Tour by The North Face, merge of the Xtreme Verbier, the Freeride World Tour final held since 1996, with the Freeskiing World Tour and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding, is a unique and first-class championship where freeskiers and snowboard freeriders compete for the world's most extreme title. The tour goes all over the world stopping on each continent, on what they call "big mountain", some of the most extreme terrains.

A team of eight - three commentators, two experts, a technical producer, and one “data guy” - working alongside Team Leader Per Josefsson make up the group representing SR-SE, Sveriges Radio, here in South Africa. Providing full commen­tary for 53 matches – 30 from the venue commentary positions and 23 using the off-tube facilities at the IBC – Per explains that there is huge interest in Sweden for football, despite the national team not qualifying.

Set near Lake Råstasjön to the north of Stockholm, the Friends Arena is the largest stadium and indoor venue in any of the Nordic countries. Home to the Swedish national football team and local club AIK, the venue holds up to 65,000 people for concerts and 55,000 for sports events.

Top level international and elite Dutch swimmers converged at the “Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium” in Eindhoven to compete for the Swim Cup 2009 from November 27th to 29th. The event was organised by Eiffel Swimmers PSV/NZE for the sixth consecutive year. On this particular occasion, the organisers of the Swim Cup, hosted by the legendary Dutch sprinter – Peter van den Hoogenband, turned back the clock to December 31st 2007.

Former Red Bull X-Fighters champion and five-time X Games medallist Mat Rebeaud has taken eFMX to new heights as he tackled a set of unique hand-built obstacles around the world famous Laax snowpark for the SnoMX project. Here is all you need to know:- Rebeaud has been riding since the age of four, inspired by a long family lineage of MX riders, with one of his first exhibition sessions at the resort of Laax in the Surselva Region way back in 1999.