Proving once again its premium performance, wTVision’s Football Stats CG was the chosen application to provide on-air graphics for 31 matches of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011.

The friendly game between football teams Galatasaray Istanbul and Ajax Amsterdam on 15 January 2011 was the opening match of the Istanbul club's new football stadium, and not even the 0:0 result could dampen the celebrations. Completed after three years of construction, the new "Tuerk Telekom Arena“ holds 52,500 spectators and is Turkey's most modern football stadium. Its technological highlights include a mobile extendable roof scheduled for completion in 2012. KLOTZ Cables was involved in the entire preparations and planning for this major project from the outset via its Turkish project partners SF SES Ve Isil Sistemleri Ltd. and ASIMETRIK SES Isik Ve Goruntu Sistemleri Ltd.

DVS is pleased to announce it provided the AFC Asian Cup’s World feed & Qatar’s unilateral signals with 7x SuperloupeTM GII HD 500 Frames/sec Ultra motion systems complete service.

While IGBS’ collaboration with AWAGOC has been made quite apparent to Rights Holders through the World Broadcaster Meetings, a less visible but equally important partner in the project has been SsangYong Information & Communications (SICC).

With the 7th Asian Winter Games Astana-Almaty 2011 about to reach their conclusion with this evening’s Closing Ceremony, IGBS would like to take a moment to look back on an extremely successful event.

As the state broadcaster of the host nation of the previous Asian Winter Games (Changchun 2007) and also the previous major OCA event, last November’s Asian Games in Guangzhou, CCTV have had plenty of re­cent experience broadcasting large events in Asia - and it is all coming in useful for their operation in Kazakhstan.

Like everyone in Kazakhstan, the staff of Kazakhstan TV are immensely proud that the 7th Asian Winter Games are being staged on their soil. “It is not an extra pressure,” explained Technical Director Raushan Akpenova. “It is an honour for us as we know that the whole of the nation is watching our chan­nel’s coverage.”

As two of the three leading broadcasters in Korea, KBS and MBC are bringing the 7th Asian Winter Games to their audience in a true team effort. Sharing the broadcasting rights, the two broadcasters have split the individual disciplines between their respective channels in order to maximise the viewing experience for their market.

After such a long build up to an event so important for the nation of Kazakhstan, the ap­proach to the finish line is a time for reflection and evaluation. For Khabar TV that process is wholly positive. “Our transmissions have all gone very well and we have no complaints or problems. In terms of the technical work it has also gone very well, the picture in the Basic Feed has been splendid and the work of all the camera staff and directors has been excep­tional,” enthused Technical Director Aidyn Bazhikeyev.

This year’s NFL® Super Bowl® XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas will be broadcast live on Sunday, February 6, by the FOX Broadcasting Company in the 720p high-definition format for the US market. The latest HD production technology from Grass Valley™ will be there to catch all of the action, as it has for the past several years, on board mobile production trucks from Game Creek (Hudson, N.H.) and NEP Supershooters (Pittsburgh, Penn.).

During 18 days in January the tournament was played at 8 locations in Sweden: Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping, Göteborg, Malmö, Kristianstad, Lund and Skövde.

RaceTech, the leading provider of horseracing pictures in the UK for both domestic and international broadcast, has upgraded its production capability to high-definition (HD) with the purchase of new cameras and video production switchers from Grass Valley™.

With Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen has for 59 years been one of the venues for the world famous Four Hills ski-jumping tournament. Traditionally the resort in Upper Bavaria hosts the event – one of the highlights of the winter sport's calendar – on the 1st January each year. In 2011, no fewer than 25,000 fans provided a motivating backdrop for the competitors.

UEFA today announced an agreement with ESPN in the United States of America and TSN in Canada for the broadcasting rights of UEFA EURO 2012 and 2016.

NewTek, a worldwide leader of video and 3D animation products, today announced that its signature streaming product, the award-winning TriCaster™ portable live production system, was used to produce and live stream extensive coverage of the ESPN Winter X Games® 15 from Aspen, CO, from January 27-30. Fans attending the X Games were able to watch events on the invenue video boards at various locations in Aspen—streamed exclusively with TriCaster.