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.

Meydan City is the latest large-scale showcase project in the Arab Emirate of Dubai. Along with a marina, a five-star hotel complex – complete with international restaurants and an IMAX cinema – the Meydan Racecourse is one of the central pillars of the prestige project: a hippodrome with the finest modern amenities.

For the first time in history of the Four Hills Tournament all four jumping events in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen will be produced by the host broadcasters ARD, ORF and ZDF in High Definition: Spectators can see the world’s best ski jumpers in unprecedented brilliance and resolution on the their TV screens at home. TV viewers can also look forward to experience the jumping events from new and extraordinary viewpoints.

UEFA have announced today that Mediaset have been awarded the remaining package of media rights to the UEFA Champions League in Italy as well as the right to broadcast all UEFA Europa League matches. These deals conclude the sale of media rights to UEFA’s club competitions in Italy following the recent award of certain media rights to Sky Italia in respect of the UEFA Champions League.

Trilogy Communications, a global provider of digital intercom systems and Master Reference Generators to the broadcast industry, has received an order from Megahertz Broadcast Systems for three Commander matrix intercoms for three new High-Definition (HD) Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles destined to provide the production facilities for Racing UK Ltd, the premier independent horseracing broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. The high-specification trucks that will be designed and built by MHz are due to be deployed in the first quarter of next year — with the 2011 Cheltenham Festival in March expected to be the first major horseracing fixture to be shown in HD by terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 4.

The Portland Trail Blazers basketball organization has upgraded its primary broadcast control room with a 32-fader, 96-channel Solid State Logic C100 Digital Broadcast console with Alpha-Link Live I/O and Alpha-Link 8-RMP units. The High Post Studio complex is used to produce pre- and post-game programs as well as handle both location and remote audio for the games. The C100 provides a platform that is easy to use, offers innovative features to streamline the production process and the powerful Black Rock processor core for expansion and longevity.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the International Ski Federation (FIS) announced today that they have signed a landmark agreement to broadcast key FIS Ski Flying Championships. The agreement includes the 2014 and 2016 FIS Ski Flying World Championships. The 2014 event will take place in Harrachov, Czech Republic whilst the event organizer for 2016 will be elected at the FIS Congress in 2012.

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.