Blackmagic Design today announced that German Bundesliga football club, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, has overhauled its internal production and live broadcast capabilities with the implementation of an UltraHD 4K solution based around Blackmagic Design. A third place finish in last season’s Bundesliga secured the club an automatic, first-time qualification for the UEFA Champions League 2018-19. Prompted by this new journey, the production team at TSG wanted to overhaul its existing SD infrastructure, and improve its streaming platform, TSG.TV. 

Right in time for the 2012/13 CBA League season throw-off this weekend, Infront Sports & Media has secured another high profile sponsor for Asia’s most popular professional basketball series: Tsingtao, the famous Chinese brewery has committed to the CBA Professional League as new Official Partner.

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.

As Canada hosts a record-breaking FIFA Women's World Cup™, soccer fever is firmly taking hold as Team Canada progresses to the quarter-finals. While the cheering in stadiums and living room continues with as much passion as ever, broadcasters worldwide are competing on a digital level for the coverage of the event. TSN and RDS stand out from the crowd offering Canadian soccer fans the ability to follow the action in real-time, both in English and French, through websites designed and developed by digital sport's leader deltatre.

Tupelo-Honey Raycom and WebStream Sports will combine resources and be known as Tupelo Raycom, effective immediately. The sports and entertainment company will continue to operate offices in New York City, Indianapolis, Charlotte and Nashville.

Speaking at the opening ceremony late on Saturday of the Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium, named after the current coach of the Turkish National Turkish football team, Erdogan said the grounds in the district of Basaksehir had cost about 178 million lira ($85 million). After the ceremony, Erdogan, who is a former semi-professional footballer - played a friendly game with some Turkish celebrities including TV producer Acun Ilicali, and film producer and writer Yilmaz Erdogan.

EVS has reached 100 sports arenas in North America and Turner Field has claimed the milestone spot. Providing innovative technology and broadcasting solutions, EVS continues to equip control rooms at sports venues throughout Canada and the United States.

Norwia AS, develops and manufactures optical distribution products to the broadcast and communications markets, announces that Norway’s leading private broadcaster TV 2 selected the Norwia miniHUB platform at Vasaloppet in Sweden. Labelled the oldest, the longest, and the biggest participated cross-country ski race in the world.

Norway’s largest commercial television broadcaster, TV 2, has selected sport digital and broadcast services market leader deltatre for the provision of official results, Mobile and desktop browser solutions to mark the involvement of TV 2 in the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

ChyronHego today announced that TV Record affiliate, TV A Crítica, has integrated ChyronHego Virtual Placement into its existing Lyric PRO-based BlueNet™ workflow to bring high-quality virtual graphics to air during its World Cup program, Arena Show de Bola. The launch marks Brazil’s first ChyronHego Virtual Placement production, bringing TV A Crítica’s viewers Lyric PRO content ranging from leader boards and team standings, to player statistics and SHOUT social media commentary  — all from within a 3D augmented reality space.

As one of the first Media Rights Licensees to arrive at the IBC, TV Azteca were clearly eager to get involved in the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. Picking up the keys to their unit on May 10 – a full 32 days before the tournament kicks off – the Mexican broadcasters have been able to quickly set up their facility and familiarise themselves with the IBC in plenty of time before the action begins.

“We have a very good team, we have very experienced players but in a World Cup you have no margin for error,” says Jose Carlos da Silveira Junior, or ‘Juca’ as he is affectionately known, of the Brazilian national team’s chances at the FIFA World Cup™. The same can be said of the TV Bandeirantes team, given that they will be debuting eye-catching HD coverage of the event for Seleção fans.

As Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo raised the Euro 2016 trophy in Paris on Sunday night, TV broadcasters around Europe celebrated outstanding viewing figures during the tournament.

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ reaches its latter stages attention naturally begins to turn to Brazil’s hosting of the event in 2014, and for broadcasters in the host country that should make life a lot easier, right? “Well, in terms of the logistics we could think it will be easier but it will not be because Brazil is such a huge country,” explained TV Globo’s Executive Producer Fernanda Conte. “We will be able to have more people involved, not that we don’t have a big crew here, and, naturally, it is an advantage to be in our home country and speaking our own language.”

They were the last of the major contenders to play - but a ruthless, record-breaking Women's World Cup demolition of Thailand showed why the United States are first in the world rankings. The reigning champions' relentless 13-0 win in Reims - the city in which France used to crown its monarchs before the rise of the republic - told the world how determined they are to stay on the throne.