A total of nine rights-holding broadcasters were awarded gold, silver or bronze trophies following a vote by an international jury headed by IOC Member Anant Singh, a leading professional in the film and media industries and Chair of the IOC's Communication Commission.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), The Coca-Cola Company and China Mengniu Dairy Company Ltd today announced that they have signed the first-ever Joint TOP Partnership Agreement. The partnership combines the non-alcoholic beverage and the dairy categories into a new joint category, and brings Chinese dairy company Mengniu into the family of Worldwide TOP Partners.

Milan-Cortina, Italy, will host the Olympic Winter Games 2026. The decision was taken today during the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The other candidate in the ballot was Stockholm-Åre, Sweden.

Timeline Television has been awarded a three-year contract to provide technical outside broadcast facilities for three of BBC Sport’s iconic tennis tournaments. The first of these is the Fever Tree Championships, which was held 17 – 23 June. It’s an annual event on the men’s professional ATP World Tour which is held at West London’s Queen’s Club and attracts many iconic players each year. The likes of John McEnroe, Lleyton Hewitt, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Marin Cilic have all played on its grass courts and the tournament has been running since 1890.

For the second year in a row, Bannister Lake has partnered with Montreal’s Boombox Group to provide live data management and populate graphics for the FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships 2019 Series. The June 21-22 event took place at the renowned Nürburgring Track in Germany, home of the world’s most challenging 24-hour motorsports endurance race.

Russian machines Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy spoiled the Germany party by fighting back to win a dramatic World Championship final and seal a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics next year.The third seeds picked up a winners’ check of 60,000 US Dollars after they powered to a 19-21, 21-17, 15-11 comeback victory that silenced a capacity Red Bull Beach Arena crowd who had gathered to see if home favorites Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler could complete a Hamburg fairytale.

Major League Baseball set foot in the UK for the first time in history last weekend, as two of the league’s titans, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, came head-to-head for a two-game series on June 29^th and 30^th at London Stadium – the spectacular venue for many events during London’s hosting of the Olympic games in 2012.

EVS, the leading provider of live production solutions, will deliver its latest technologies to a major sports federation for use at its high-profile tournament that will take place across Europe in the summer of 2020. In addition to the extended deployment of its live production systems (for replay, slow-motion and highlights) within the multiple venues, EVS will deploy the entire media server. This will provide instant access to thousands of hours of content based on an intuitive research system and powerful content management interface, facilitating the creation of a large amount of video collateral during the event.

The Pakistan Cricket Board started the 2019 season with something truly spectacular. Right before the first match, an awe-inspiring opening ceremony took place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium - but this was unlike any event ever seen in the tournament’s history. Broadcast to over 50 million people around the world, the 60-minute Pakistan Super League opening ceremony combined mind-blowing augmented reality graphics with live performances from global acts, including iconic 70’s funk band Boney M, Pakistan’s Junoon and solo stars Fawad Khan, Young Desi, Aima Baig and Shuja Haider.

Ahead of the historic first stop of the Red Bull Air Race at Lake Balaton, Hungary on 13-14 July, two of the hottest pilots in the World Championship – François Le Vot (FRA) and Ben Murphy (GBR) – took a discovery flight over the famed lake’s expansive shores.

Australian pilot Matt Hall blew the Red Bull Air Race World Championship open on Sunday with a steely win at the sport’s historic first race at Lake Balaton, Hungary. Finishing second, Great Britain’s Ben Murphy clinched the first race podium of his young World Championship career, and in third, Canada’s Pete McLeod grabbed his first race podium since 2018. Meanwhile, an early exit for Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya enabled defending World Champion Martin Šonka of the Czech Republic to jump to the top of the overall standings despite hitting a pylon in the Final 4.

EBU Members have reported record audience figures and coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019™, signaling a landmark moment for women’s sport. Europe’s Public Service broadcasters have brought the excitement, action and goals of this thrilling tournament to millions free-to-air, both those within Eurovision Sport’s 38 territory* contract and those with individual agreements**.

EVS, the leading provider of live production solutions, has been selected by the host broadcaster of a global multi-sports event taking place in 2020 in Asia to provide solutions for the centralized ingest, management and distribution of its content. EVS will also be responsible for a comprehensive media server that will give operatives instant access to thousands of hours of material. These tools will enable the production crews located at the various venues and within a central international broadcast center (IBC) to create an unprecedented amount of compelling content.

Viewers around the world enjoyed premium quality audio while watching Wimbledon 2019 with NEP UK deploying 15 Calrec consoles at the South West London tennis venue, alongside extensive Calrec networking and routing technology and I/O boxes. An additional three Calrec consoles were used in NEP OB trucks that covered Centre Court, Court One and Court Two.

Samoa is a small island in the middle of the Pacific. This year it plays host to the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games which sees over 4000 athletes competing in 27 different sports. It is also home to DAWG Professional Audio whose success with their world-class KV2 Audio inventory was sufficient to win the audio tender for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2019 Pacific Games.