Telestream®, the leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced that its Wirecast® live video production software was used to stream live coverage of the Extreme Sailing Series final Act 8 to worldwide audiences.

Vizrt, a leading provider of content production systems for the digital media industry, today announced that Mexico’s Televisa will use Viz Libero, Viz Virtual Studio and Viz Engine for a unique football (soccer) analysis presentation during the World Cup.
Televisa Deportes, a division of Mexico’s highly rated television network Televisa, recently gave viewers in Mexico a preview of the technology to be used during the World Cup this summer.

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.

Telline Video Broadcast, a leading French equipment rental and video production company, has invested in a Polecam 7th Heaven HD rig. Based in Paris, Telline will be using Seventh Heaven for its own video productions with an Iconix HD-RH1 compact remote camera head. The rig was purchased via Polecam's French master reseller, ACS France.

Texas A&M basketball fans are getting a fresh perspective of each game this season, courtesy of five new AJA RovoCam UltraHD/HD HDBaseT cameras installed throughout Reed Arena. The compact block cameras capture in-stadium footage of athletes and fans, which is displayed on a 54’ x 24’ video board, one of the largest among NCAA Division 1 schools. 12^th Man Productions, the university’s athletics video production arm, is responsible for both the live video board broadcast and a live stream of each game to a popular sports network’s digital app.

12^th Man Productions is the broadcast and post facility for Texas A&M University, one of the major players in college athletics in the USA. Across our College Station campus, we have seven major venues, which between them host as many as 110 events a year. For those events, we provide the infrastructure for broadcasters like ESPN, and we create the fan experience through big screen shows at each venue. Those big screen shows include sponsorship fulfillment within the venues. We also provide separate video feeds to each venue, for applications like official replays, concourse feeds, talent monitors and team recordings.

The French national team’s troubles in this 2010 FIFA World Cup™ have had at least one positive repercussion for France’s TF1: they have fully validated its strategy of dividing its operations between the IBC, the team’s base camp and its headquarters in Paris. With much of the news coming from the base camp in Knysna (near Cape Town) rather than from the stadiums, TF1’s twelve ENG teams have had plenty of work, including covering every one of the team’s many press conferences live.

French broadcaster TF1 is using two Grass Valley™ K2 Dyno™ Replay Systems to enable rugby fans to watch live HD replays of the key kicks, conversions, tackles, and tries from the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the largest event in France’s 2011 sporting calendar, with more than 10 million viewers expected to tune in.

For the 21st year in a row, the Golden Podium Awards, created by Georges Bertellotti, will reward the directors of the world’s best sports TV images and slow-motions.
Broadcasted on Direct 8, this ceremony will be hosted by Alexandre Delperier and Nathalie Vincent.

For the 22nd year in a row, the Golden Podium Awards, created by Georges Bertellotti, will reward the directors of the world’s best sports TV images and slow-motions.Broadcasted on Direct 8, this ceremony will be hosted by Louise Ekland and Karl Olive.

Every four years the FIFA World Cup showcases the skill and talent of the world’s best players, but it is more than just a football tournament: It is the aspiration of FIFA TV to deliver a world class TV production. This year all 64 matches were produced on the basis of a 34-HD camera plan with increased coverage, content and features, as well as 4K and 8K camera coverage in addition to a wide range of multi-media services that complemented and enhanced the broadcast of the FIFA World Cup.

The 2nd Youth Games of the People's Republic of China is the largest comprehensive sports competition held in Shanxi since the founding of P.R. China.

Some 100 thousand sports enthusiasts and athletes run at the 35th Istanbul Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label event sponsored by Vodafone, on Sunday in Istanbul.

During the football tournament in South Africa, German broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) is acting in the name of ARD, the nationwide German radio and TV network, as customer of the World Cup’s host broadcaster, Swiss Host Broadcast Services (HBS). This means SWR is responsible for all organisational, technical and logistical matters for ARD.

Last Sunday’s match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF was one of the most talked about matches online in the history of the sport. Content related to the game was watched more than 13 million times on YouTube last Sunday and all the tweets registered under the #ElClásico hashtag were seen more than 400 million times, data which provides proof of the match’s international reach. The audience peaks coincided with the goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo and Mathieu and the end of the game which saw up to 15,000 tweets per minute.