NUSSLI is on hand for yet another significant baseball event. Already in 2009, NUSSLI supplemented the existing grandstand facilities with an additional 10,000 seats for the playoff games of the 2009 Baseball World Cup in Regensburg, Germany. Now the European Championship will take place from July 23 to August 1, 2010 at the sport arenas in Stuttgart, Heidenheim, and Neuenburg on the Rhine – again with NUSSLI’s support. Advance ticket sales through Ticketmaster have already begun; the demand for the coveted tickets is huge.

As the 2010 FIFA World CupTM draws to a close and stadiums host their final matches, it is a timely moment to look back on the opera­tions carried out at the ten venues. “During the operational phase, the Broadcast Venue Managers (BVMs) are the first point of con­tact for FIFA and the LOC for broadcast-related matters,” explained Gary Shaw, Head of Venue Management. “They therefore need to be aware of everything HBS does in terms of production, unilateral services and everything ‘behind the scenes’, such as power, telecoms, information distribution etc...”

When TF1 agreed to sell some of its 2010 FIFA World Cup™ broadcast rights on to Canal+, the latter French MRL most likely had a mixed reac­tion. As the first ever pay-channel in France, Canal+ is well known for having built its success on a two-pronged reliance on films and foot­ball, so it would have been some­what inconceivable for them not to offer the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ to their subscribers. But since this agreement only occurred in February of this year, it also left very little time to get organised.

A cable camera system is imple­mented at five of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ stadiums – Cape Town, Durban, both Johannesburg stadiums and Nelson Mandela Bay/ Port Elizabeth. The ‘Spidercam’, operational at four of these ven­ues, enables the flight and move­ment of a camera across a three dimensional field. “Each of the systems in use has a team of three with it,” explains Jens Peters, Operations Technician, “two joystick opera­tors, one for the Spidercam system itself, and one for the camera, and one technician for setting up, checking, maintenance and so on.”

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Aggreko plc along with its joint venture partner Shanduka Group provides temporary power and temperature control for broadcast and technical services for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.The contract involves providing broadcasting power in all 10 World Cup Stadium Venues, the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and FIFA headquarters, as well as temperature control at the IBC.

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ draws to a close, FIFA TV and HBS would like to reflect on the successful delivery of Africa’s first FIFA World Cup™. “It has been a tremendous experience in South Africa for all of us at FIFA TV,” begins Niclas Ericson, FIFA TV Director. “We would like to extend our thanks to all of you in the broadcast com­munity for making this event such a resounding success around the world through your coverage. For our part, we endeavoured to offer you coverage with more content, more emotions, more depth and richness than ever before at a FIFA World Cup™. We hope we succeeded in this. “

The final whistle blew on the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ just a few moments ago and as it did HBS staff members in South Africa began to shake hands and trade smiles. For the third time HBS successfully delivered all 64 matches of a FIFA World Cup™ to an enthusiastic worldwide audience, thereby once more fulfilling its original mandate. The company was created eleven years ago with the very specific task of producing the television and radio signals for the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups™, a mission that was later extended to the 2010 and 2014 editions of the tournament.

The controversy surrounding the constant hornet-like swarming noise produced by vuvuzelas haunted this year’s Soccer World Cup since the very first games. Meanwhile, broadcasters had to resort to filtering the audio: “The ability to use the steep notch filters on a Lawo console’s EQ was extremely helpful in the creation of signals with reduced interference from the vuvuzelas,” explains Carsten Higler, technical director of ARD, the German public national radio and TV network.

MediaCorp will use its fleet of five EVS XT[2] series servers for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games, which will take place in Singapore from August 14 to 26, 2010. The EVS systems will be used for the slomo replays, live editing and highlights package creation.

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Overon, which has provided coverage of the Football World Cup from 9 different sites, supplied more than 200 broadcast services over the weekend for more than 30 TV networks, including: laSexta, Antena 3, Cuatro, TV3, ETB, RAI, RTP, CNN Atlanta, France 3, etc.

The match statistics of the top players at this World Cup are truly impressive. The number of kilometres travelled per match makes particularly remarkable reading. However, our own World Cup team can easily keep up with these achievements: all told, the 58 specialists in the MEDIA BROADCAST team have between them clocked up a little over a million flying miles. And let us not forget our three SNG teams, who bumped their way over 19,000 kilometres of uneven roads.

IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. In 2009, the show attracted more than 45,000 attendees from 140 countries around the world, exhibiting more than 1,300 of the world's key technology suppliers and showcasing a debate-leading conference that, among other vital sessions, brought together the ASC and the BSC digital camera tests and offered pioneering insight into the latest developments in stereoscopic 3D.

Around 1,000 VIP guests witnessed live the triple victory of Audi at the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans 2010 at the Audi Racing Arena on June 12/13, 2010 – with Creative Technology Germany as partner for the complex video, broadcast and audio technology.