Arqiva has provided Input Media with an 11-camera Outside Broadcasts truck and an SNG truck to film and uplink coverage of the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championships for the BBC. Between January 17th and 23rd the units were deployed to Norfolk to film all stages of the championships which last year attracted around 4.5 million viewers. The live feeds were uplinked to Arqiva’s satellite capacity with downlink and onpass via Arqiva’s UK teleports.

International Games Broadcast Services (IGBS), the host broadcaster of the 7th Asian Winter Games, has appointed NEP Visions to supply a broad range of outside broadcast equipment and technical crew for the event, to be held in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan from 30 January – 6 February 2011.

Riedel Communications, one of the leading manufacturers of real-time networks for video, audio and intercom, installed a comprehensive communications system for the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Riedel provided the venue communication system as well as the intercom for the opening and closing ceremonies, combining wired and wireless technologies.

With just over one week remaining before the Opening Ceremony of the 7th Asian Winter Games Astana-Almaty 2011, International Games Broadcast Services (IGBS) is pleased to report that its host broadcast operations for the event are going full steam ahead.

It’s now 7 years since the very first HD broadcast in Spain and the first stepping stone towards regular HD broadcasts of football matches. MEDIAPRO led the way with its very own HD outside broadcast van. The first match was a Copa del Rey game between Real Madrid and Eibar in January 2004 for the American World Sports network, which later became Rainbow.

The UEFA.com users' Team of the Year 2010 has been announced today, with the selection featuring six players from FIFA World Cup winners Spain. Almost five million votes were cast by more than 410,000 users.

Orange was today announced as the eighth global partner of UEFA EURO 2012 to take place in Poland/Ukraine in the summer of 2012, on the occasion of a special ceremony held at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw.

With over 10 years’ experience in the football industry, including consultancy for two FIFA World Cups and one UEFA Euro competition, SINERGI Sports Consulting is proud to announce the event management partnership with the Soccerex European Forum 2011.

NUSSLI, a global supplier of modular stadiums, was commissioned this week by the city of Düsseldorf with the construction of an interim stadium for the second-division soccer team Fortuna Düsseldorf. NUSSLI will erect the temporary stadium next to the ESPRIT arena in eight weeks building time. The last home games of the season will be played in the stadium, which can hold about 20,000 spectators.

The countdown is on: in just three weeks time, the major players of the sports business industry shall meet at the 15th Sports Business Summit (SpoBiS). This time round though, the largest sports business event in Europe will not take place in Munich on 7-8 February, 2011 but rather in Düsseldorf.

Lawo digital consoles were much in evidence at the XVI Asiad, otherwise known as the 2010 Asian Games, staged in Guangzhou in November 2010. A record 14,000 participants from 45 countries and regions took part in 42 events, setting another Asian Games record.

As scheduled, the International Broadcast Centre for the 7th Asian Winter Games Astana- Almaty 2011 became fully operational on 10 January, marking the symbolic start of IGBS’ event-time period, but dozens of experienced IGBS staff members have been based in Kazakhstan for months, working in close collaboration with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the Astana-Almaty Asian Winter Games Organising Committee (AWAGOC) in order to develop and implement a broadcast plan of unprecedented scale and ambition.

LiberoVision has released Libero Offside, the latest addition to the Libero family. It satisfies the desire of broadcasters to have LiberoVision 3D analyses ready within seconds after the action.

Right in time for the 22nd Men's Handball World Championship 2011 in Sweden, LiberoVision is proud to present another landmark by implementing Handball, the seventh sport for Libero Highlight. TV2 Denmark will use LiberoVision clips for its Handball coverage to discover all aspects of the fast game and to break down key moments.

Sport moves fast – sport and innovation are driving each other. Direct on your smart phone, live online, vitual through gaming, and engaging via social media: sport stakeholders have to adapt to the fast changing digital reality.