The Red Bull Air Race World Championships has brought another dimension to the world of motorsport, and broadcast solution specialists Gearhouse Broadcast are helping ensure the very best of the amazing aerial action reaches its growing legion of fans around the globe.

• Electro-Voice certainly set the tone for this year’s World Cup, with sound systems in nine of the ten football stadiums hosting the event, and at live relays of the matches back in Germany„
• Fans gathered in their thousands to follow the games on giant screens in cities including Munich and Burghausen

Three grandMA full-size consoles and a grandMA2 light were used to control nearly 500 high powered light sources for the colourful and highly acclaimed Closing Ceremony of the 2010 World Cup, staged at Soccer City Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg. The 2010 Closing Ceremony event was produced by the VWV Group, it featured a cast of 740 including 40 elephant operators and 35 principal artists and has been acclaimed as one of the best and most visually exciting World Cup Closing ceremonies to date.

48 years after winning the UEFA Cup , the Spanish club Atletico Madrid has once again won a European club trophy. In the final of the UEFA Europa League in Hamburg on May 12th, 2010 Atlético defeated FC Fulham 2:1 after extra time in front of 49,000 spectators in the HSH Nordbank Arena. With his goals in the 32nd and 116th minute Uruguayan Diego Forlan decided the outcome of the match.

Megahertz (MHz), an international independent systems integrator, has received an order from Racecourse Technical Services Ltd (RaceTech), the innovative racecourse services provider, for three new High-Definition (HD) Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles 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 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 3 July with an 8.9 km prologue time trial in Rotterdam, the first start in the Netherlands since 1996. The race visited three countries: the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and finished on 25 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris .

Imagina and Fila7 were behind the creation and organisation of the Opening Ceremony of the European Athletics Championships, which took place on Monday 26th July in María Cristina Avenue in Barcelona and in and around the magic Fountains in Montjuïc.

Gearhouse South Africa was contracted by ceremonies producers VWV Group to deliver all technical aspects of the amazing Closing Ceremony of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup — including rigging, power, sound, lighting and large format projection, utilising the dynamics, skills and services of most companies in the Gearhouse Group.

When it comes to producing major media events on TV, broadcasters need a large amount of media-related equipment quickly and for a short period of time. Because it is rarely economical for companies to buy in the required technology themselves, broadcasters and production companies rely on renting broadcasting equipment.

The prestigious Georges Bertellotti Golden Podium Awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday October 12, 2010 in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and many other sports and TV celebrities.

Britain's Paul Bonhomme won the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship by taking second place behind Austria's Hannes Arch in the final race of the season at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany on Sunday. In another thrilling duel, Australia’s Matt Hall got the third podium of his career with third place in the 50th race in the sport’s history while Germany’s Matthias Dolderer finished seventh to the delight of the big home crowd. A total of 118,000 spectators watched the racing this weekend.

Arqiva has provided IMG with HD distribution of their Open Golf coverage. This included an HD SNG truck on site, teleport services and space segment on multiple satellites for distribution of the HD feeds to audiences in Europe and Asia.

Arqiva provided an HD SNG truck to uplink coverage of the Tour de France, using capacity on the Intelsat 905 satellite. The SNG truck included two framerate converters, which converted the signal to a United States HD output.

After the World Cup in South Africa in June all the Alfacam facilities were sent back home for a dozen international sports events in July and August. These events include the Monaco Diamond League, the Triathlon World Championship Series, the European Championship Athletics, the European Swimming Championship and a lot of cycle racing, motor sports and horse-riding.

Commentators are prepared for their task at special training sessions: to cover a football match for visually impaired people, while including all its aspects. Through direct cooperation with football fans during those sessions, requirements for a detailed description of the action soon become evident, leading to a step-by-step improvement of the commentary. An efficient broadcast from the stadium is guaranteed by technology from Lawo.