Calrec has entered the French broadcasting market with panache. Outside broadcasting (OB) giant AMP VISUAL TV has chosen the company's Apollo, Artemis, and Artemis Light audio consoles for its landmark new vehicle, marking Calrec's first sale in France. The new truck, the Millenium Signature 12 (MS12), will be the standard-bearer in the AMP VISUAL TV fleet and will make its debut for coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance automobile race in June. 

IMG, the world’s premier sports, entertainment and media company, has ordered two 32-fader Calrec Omega consoles to mix audio on coverage of Premier League games, which IMG has the contract to distribute internationally. A third, 40-fader Omega will handle audio on the Premier League’s new 24-hour HD football content service.

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Calrec Audio's Summa, Artemis Ray, and Brio digital audio consoles to provide seamless audio mixing for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, 8-25 February. The announcement was made today by Karl Malone, Director, Sound Design, NBC Olympics, and Dave Letson, Vice President of Sales, Calrec Audio.

From July to September 2020, 112 games will be played in Suzhou and Dalian in the first stage of the 2020 Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL). Due to the special requirements of epidemic prevention this year, the production of the CSL will be different from the production of traditional competitions. SMT dispatched a total of 40 elite team members, which including S4 broadcast team, B3 broadcast team, and SMT AR Studio, to cooperate with China Sports Media (CSM), the CSL copyright dealer, to provide HD and 4K live production and live feed distribution. Under the high requirements of epidemic prevention, SMT has provided self-developed virtual audience production and virtual sound production services in order to present a "special" and exciting season for the 2020 CSL.

There’s a lot of rain in the forecast — and Saturday’s 143rd running of the historic Kentucky Derby could be a sloppy mess — but that won’t stop NBC Sports’ digital and social-media teams from blanketing Churchill Downs in all kinds of in-depth coverage for various platforms writes Brandon Costa, Director of Digital for Sports Video Group (SVG).

EVS solutions at Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball (MLB) team, are giving production teams new replay and highlights capabilities with support for Super Slow Motion cameras and editing while providing extended broadcast production efficiencies.

ChyronHego announced that the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) has selected ChyronHego to provide real-time digital sports data for the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2’s live sporting broadcasts. ChyronHego’s acclaimed TRACAB system will be used to collect player and ball statistics in unprecedented detail for the span of the four year contract, valid until the close of the 2016/17 season.

For the first time a TV live broadcast of a Bundesliga football match was produced entirely in the format UHD-HDR (Four more tests are scheduled between now and the end of the current football season). TVN MOBILE PRODUCTION produced the match Borussia Mönchengladbach – RB Leipzig using new Sony switcher and HDR converter technology and a unique new HDR / SDR workflow.

ES Broadcast technical director Jonathan Lyth outlines how his company designed, specified and built the backend video and audio infrastructure for the OGN Super Arena in California, discussing the challenges faced and sharing the lessons learnt along the way. It’s hard to overestimate the impact that eSports is having on the video games market. Indeed, the impact is being felt across the entertainment sector with the scale of competitive playing, the level of sponsorship and the associated prize money impossible to ignore.

HBS’ 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ TV Directors meet for a production seminar in Belo Horizonte. Left-Right: Thomas Sohns, John Watts, Wolfgang Straub, François Lanaud, Knut Fleischmann, Jean-Jacques Amsellem, Jamie Oakford, Grant Phillips.

BTS broadcast technology solutions received an order from Grass Valley to develop and construct an outdoor broadcast (OB) van for the 27th South East Asia Games to be held in Myanmar in December 2013.

Grass Valley™ is pleased to announce that BTN, based in Chicago, has purchased the company's 300th K2 Dyno™ Replay System, to handle 720p replays during live game telecasts.

Signalling its intentions to compete in the premium sports arena, not only in terms of acquiring rights, but also by offering compelling, quality programming differentiated from its counterparts, BT Sports has unveiled its production and studio base situated in the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London and confirmed its intentions to be long-term player in the sector.

EVS, the leader in live video production technology, has provided a range of tools from its ecosystem of Connected Live technology and Creative Live solutions to BT Sport for the live coverage of the 2017 UEFA Champions League final.

Avid today announced that, in conjunction with Timeline Television, BT Sport, BT’s new group of sports television channels, has implemented an Avid end-to-end tapeless asset management, storage, and audio and video editing workflow to efficiently create, access and distribute the hundreds of hours of sports content that will pass through the new facility each year.