Mediator Servicing S.A. is an independent EBU subsidiary fully dedicated to the UEFA EURO 2012™ project and will act as UEFA’s exclusive agent for marketing UEFA EURO 2012™ media rights in the following seven territories: Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Portugal (Pay TV rights have been granted to Sport TV in this territory by UEFA), and Slovakia. In addition, the company will be responsible for fulfilling certain servicing obligations to UEFA in respect of UEFA EURO 2012™ broadcast partners in selected European markets.

Arqiva has completed another season of distributing the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championships on behalf of British Eurosport. Arqiva SNGs uplinked live coverage from all twelve rounds of the 2010 season, taking them to some of the UK’s most famous racing circuits including Silverstone and Brands Hatch. The feeds were delivered via Arqiva’s satellite capacity to British Eurosport’s co-located studios at Arqiva’s London facilities.

„Today is a very important day for us. There have been doubts from several sides that we would be able to finish Gudiberg in time for the World Ski Championships. Now, the new lift is ready for operation, the operating license is on hand, the new functional building is finished and at Christmas, the slope will also be fully primed. We are absolutely on schedule with our preparations“, says a pleased Peter Fischer, Director of the Organisation Committee of the World Ski Championships.

Biathlon meets architecture and functionality: when the world`s best biathletes report for the final rehearsal of the Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ruhpolding (Chiemgau) from January 11 till 16 more than 28,000 spectators will have a special kind of experience: the Chiemgau arena has been completely redesigned and extended for nearly 16 million euros. Now the arena is one of the most modern training and competition facilities of Nordic ski sports.

At Harbor Park in Norfolk, Virginia, home to Minor League Baseball’s Norfolk Tides, a new JBL VLA line array system gave the team’s stadium a sonic refresher that both vastly improved the sound on the field and did so very cost-effectively. Two clusters, each containing six JBL VLA 901 speakers with 90-degree horizontal horn coverage patterns offer fans exceptional sound and high intelligibility while staying within both the team’s budget and the physical limitations of the park.

Wireless Solution Sweden AB was a proud participant at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games this summer held in Singapore. The event hosted youth athletes 14 to 18 years old from 204 countries competing in 26 events – all hopefuls to compete in the following year’s Summer Olympics.

As part of a $24.7 million renovation to the home of University of Notre Dame basketball and volleyball, ESCO Communications, Inc. recently completed a JBL loudspeaker system installation in the Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Indiana. The nearly 10,000-seat arena, which opened its doors in 1968, is now a state-of-the-art facility for all of the student-athletes and fans to enjoy.

Twenty years ago there was no internet and no e-mail. Mobile phones were the size of bricks and laptop computers were called 'luggables.' The first version of Sportcal was purely just a sports calendar, hence the name Sportcal. There was no news and no premium research products. It was developed on a Compaq 'luggable' with a 10-inch screen and 512K of memory and was distributed on 5.25 inch floppy disk by post to 100 people.

Snell has announced that its Kahuna multi-format HD/SD production switcher supported SIS LIVE's provision of host broadcast television production and coverage facilities at the XIX Commonwealth Games, held Oct. 3-14 in Delhi, India. SIS LIVE's television coverage represented the first complete broadcast of the games in HD, and the company's live feeds were used by all networks covering the event. The five Kahuna systems gave operators the speed and functionality required for smooth, accurate switching in the fast-paced live sports production environment.

With some 7000 athletes from 71 countries competing for 826 medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, first time hosts India promised to deliver a world class Games amidst a wide array of environmental and political challenges.

The construction work at the Kandahar race track is getting up to speed. For the first race of the World Championships, the Ladies' Super G on February 8th, all preparations are exactly on schedule. A helicopter has now brought all the platforms for the cameras and trainers to the track.

For the first time in 59 years of existence the Four Hills Tournament presents an own brand identity. Infront Sports & Media, the tournament`s new marketing partner, not only developed a new logo for the Four Hills Tournament but also a completely new, comprehensive concept for all four component events in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen. In the past the tournament`s appearance was always visually characterized by the so-called title sponsor.

570 days before the start of UEFA EURO 2012, the cloud of secrecy surrounding the official mascot was today lifted at a special ceremony at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. After Trix and Flix in Austria and Switzerland in 2008, Europe’s next festival of football will have a new duo to bring it luck. Dressed in red/white and yellow/blue football strips, the dynamic twins wear the national colours of the two host countries, Poland and Ukraine.

The most spectacular artistic roller skating contest hosted in Italy, December the 8th in Modena. Among the stars the 14 times World Champion Tanja Romano. To make the event unique the music performed live by Paolo Belli and his Big Band.

In October 2010, the Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal took place from the 7th to the 18th of October in Peniche.For this competition, wTVision together with MEDIAPRO, provided a simultaneous production to MEO, Portuguese TV Cable Network, RIP Curl and ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals).