Al Kamel Systems, recently demonstrated their Sports Timing and TV Graphics service, to the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) using TVU Networks TVU Remote Production System (RPS) for cost efficiency and sustainability in reducing CO2 emissions. The IMSA, North America’s premier sports car organization, is a subsidiary of NASCAR that organizes the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Michelin Pilot Challenge and more.

Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that Riot Games, the publisher of the most-played PC game in the world and the organization behind League of Legends Esports, used Nevion’s software-defined media node Virtuoso as part of its remote production of the recent League of Legends World Championship Final. In doing so, Riot Games became one of the very first organizations in the world to leverage the ground-breaking JPEG XS encoding technology.

EVS, the leading provider of live video technology for broadcast and new media productions, today announced that its AI-driven offside line technology has successfully completed FIFA’s Quality Programme for Virtual Offside Lines (VOL). The FIFA Quality Standard certification for VOL, highlights the accuracy and consistency of the EVS solution.

Swedish broadcast facilities company Best Broadcast Hire (BBH) is using Panasonic solutions to broadcast some of the major eSports events around the world, including FIFA eSuperliga, the BLAST Pro Series across seven different countries and the recent StarLadder MAJOR tournament in Berlin.

TVU Networks, the global technology and innovation leader in live IP video solutions, announced that Spanish public broadcaster RTVE chose TVU equipment to follow this year’s Rally of Morocco, which took place from the 3rd to the 9th of October. RTVE’s coverage was a unique blend of action captured at close range with a smartphone running TVU Anywhere and more static moments shot using a standard camera setup with TVU One.
 

While the term eSports is  increasingly  perceived  as  being  misleading, the competitive nature of most online games of various categories and the production requirements at live Esports events are very similar to the challenge typical sports venue productions encounter.

The 7th CISM World Military Games was held in Wuhan, China from October 18th to 27th, 2019. It is the first comprehensive international military sports event hosted by China, and also the largest international sports event that held in China after the Beijing Olympic Games. More than 9,300 military athletes from 109 countries competed and enhanced friendship in Wuhan. Shanghai Media Tech (SMT) provided a strong technical guarantee for this event. During the Wuhan Military Games, President of the International Military Sports Council, Herve Piccirillo, Moreno, Director of OBS Engineering, Jimenez，Director of OBS Broadcasting System, visited the SMT team often and made an in-depth communication with SMT technical team members.

The eyes of the global gaming community were focused on the spectacular final of Riot Games’ League of Legends World Championship in November as teams from far and wide battled to be crowned the 2019 winners.

For the 25^th year, CP Communications, a leader in innovative solutions and services for complex live event productions, managed end-to-end content acquisition for the TCS New York City Marathon. Now in its 49^th year, the TCS New York City Marathon is the world’s largest marathon and the signature event of New York Road Runners (NYRR), the world’s premier community running organization. The race course begins in Staten Island and winds its way through Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx before finishing in Manhattan in Central Park.

Russia’s premiere marathon – the seventh annual Moscow Marathon – was a proving ground for Movicom’s newest technological innovation, the RiO Broadcast Camera 4G/LTE remote control system (manufactured by our partners CyanView) which allows full RCP control over any controllable camera from anywhere in the world that has the LTE signal. The system was used on 5 cameras along the marathon’s route (42,2km) to control iris and shading – critical to matching shots during the course of the 5-hour event.

The DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) used last weekend’s Bundesliga match between Wolfsburg and Werder Bremen to trial match coverage that was captured in a smartphone-friendly 9:16 vertical format. Responding to what it describes as “changed media usage behaviour”, the DFL tests made use of broadcast cameras that were tilted 90 degrees and were done with smartphone ‘portrait’ mode viewing and social media in mind. The vast majority of football coverage the world over is shot in 16:9 widescreen ‘landscape’ mode.

Q: What’s your current role and what does it involve?

A: I’m a freelance audio engineer and mixer, mainly working as an A1 on college sports for ESPN, though I’ve worked for many of the networks as well as other clients over my career. The majority of what I do is football, basketball, baseball and studio productions. I’ve also done the occasional high-profile non-sports event, including important political broadcasts. For instance, one highlight was my role as Head of Broadcast Audio for the 2013 George W. Bush Presidential Center Dedication Ceremony; with every living US President in attendance, it was a memorable event. I also do some work as location production sound mixing.

For the 2019/20 season, the Riedel Bolero S referee communications system will be used in all 306 2nd Bundesliga games and in the final 15 DFB Cup matches. As a result, league referees can experience all of the benefits that the 1st Bundesliga referees have already been enjoying for more than a year, including high-transmission security, significantly improved voice and sound quality, and guaranteed quality assurance from the Riedel Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Wuppertal. The ROC further expanded its capacity and equipment at the start of this season in order to provide sufficient space for the rapid expansion in remote management services.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) is one of Germany’s largest public-broadcasting institutions and part of the ARD network. With its main base in Cologne, the public broadcaster independently produces and broadcasts half-hour evening television news content across 11 regions in North-Rhine WEstfalia.  As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR operates the WDR Television service and six regional radio networks. One of its flagship programs is the “Sportschau” sports report, a magazine show broadcast on ARD, which has covered a range of sports since its launch in 1961, including the German Bundesliga.

Content will achieve unprecedented global reach, empowering content creators to push boundaries and think beyond historical geographical and technical barriers.  2020 will see more smaller service providers enter the market serving a particular niche as audience fragmentation increases. The streaming format enables content owners and rights holders to reach global audiences in a cost effective way that simply wouldn’t have been possible before.