Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced that it has closed a multi-year agreement with Traffic Sports International to support global distribution of its seven international soccer leagues. Via Arqiva, the television rights holder to Latin America’s key soccer tournaments will reach TV households throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East beginning with the August 4th transmission of the first Copa Sudamericana soccer match.

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•„ The Roth Challenge is regarded by triathletes worldwide as one of the most challenging and exciting competitions the sport has to offer
•„ With 2,500 individual athletes and 500 squads from over 50 different countries competing this year, watched by over 120,000 spectators, the 2010 Roth Challenge consolidated the international reputation of the event
•„ Barowski AG provided the sound reinforcement, using Cobra-4 line arrays from DYNACORD to great effect

IMG, the world’s premier sports, entertainment and media company, has ordered two 32-fader Calrec Omega consoles to mix audio on coverage of Premier League games, which IMG has the contract to distribute internationally. A third, 40-fader Omega will handle audio on the Premier League’s new 24-hour HD football content service.

International Games Broadcast Services (IGBS) - the 50/50 joint venture between HBS and IMG that delivered the Host Broadcast Operation of the 2006 Asian Games in Qatar - has signed a contract to implement the event-time broadcast deliverables for the upcoming Games in Kazakhstan. The contract, signed in accordance with the Olympic Committee of Asia, also involves Ssang Yong, the Korean IT and Timing Company, another partner involved in the much acclaimed implementation of the Doha Asian Games.

Pulsar Television went live with its brand new HD 3G 3DReady OBVan last Sunday for the Hockey BDO FIH WORLD CUP, WOMEN 2010, that´s taking place in Rosario, Argentina during the next 2 weeks between the teams of Argentina, Australia, China, England, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and South Africa.

Euro Media Sports is proud to be associated with the Fédération Française de Badminton [French Badminton Federation] and with its consulting firm Keneo for the provision of coverage of the World Badminton Championships, which took place from 23 to 29 August at the Coubertin Stadium.

A five-strong Camera Corps team headed to Budapest in August to support coverage of the 2010 European Swimming Championships for Eurosport. Working in co-operation with Alfacam, MTV Hungary and Satellite Information Services, Camera Corps provided Underwater Remote Camera Systems, Hitachi DKH-32 cameras on MiniShot heads, and a Poolside Tracking System.

SIS LIVE, one of Europe’s largest outside broadcast (OB) and uplink supplier, has upgraded the technical facilities for BBC Sport’s coverage of Formula 1 motor racing. The UK-based company has designed and built a brand new HD-ready flyaway unit and OB truck to capture BBC Sport’s race-weekend footage for BBC One, BBC Red Button and BBC online. The £2 million system was first used at the Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, 27th-29th August, and is heading next to Monza, Italy, for the Grand Premio Santander d’Italia, 10th-12th September.

UEFA today announced the appointment of Sharp as an official sponsor for UEFA EURO 2012™ and EUROTOP partner covering all national team competitions within the programme until end of 2013.

Marina Bay, in the heart of Singapore, was the location for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, which took place from the 14th to the 26th of August. Creative director Ivan Heng, show producer Vernon Teo, and the artistic team that included lighting designer Koert Vermeulen of ACT Lighting Design, presented the ceremonies, which took place on the world’s largest floating platform stage with the Singapore skyline as the backdrop. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC, said, “It was a combination of pure emotion and technical perfection in a unique setting.”

Grammy-winning producer and engineer Javier Hernandez, owner of Javier Studios in San Juan, Puerto Rico, developed and deployed a complete broadcast solution for the Central American Games’ opening and closing ceremonies, with two Soundcraft Si3 digital consoles and a Vi1 digital console. With millions of viewers from the 31 participating countries and beyond watching the games, the Soundcraft equipment ensured every note, lyric, speech and pre-taped video clip was successfully delivered to the television audience.

The Red Bull Air Race has been awarded with the IBC Innovation Award at this year's IBC in Amsterdam. The international judging panel gave the "Content Creation Award" to the Red Bull Air Race for its use of fiber-based distribution of all communications and HD video and audio content via Riedel's MediorNet technology. Also involved in this large-scale project that excites millions of people worldwide, is the broadcast production provider SIVision Outside Broadcast, Live Motion Concept and West4Media Production.

On Saturday night 11th September, SVG hosted more than 200 sports industry professionals at its annual IBC Sport Reception in Amsterdam to salute the 2010 achievements of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and Host Broadcast Services (HBS). These two companies, respectively, were directly responsible for two groundbreaking 2010 productions, the Vancouver Winter Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. Manolo Romero, CEO of OBS, was on hand to accept the award for the Olympic production, while Francis Tellier, CEO of HBS, accepted the award for the World Cup broadcast.

EVS announces that Mediahouse, the facility division of IMG Sports Media, has recently upgraded its EVS servers and associated software applications as part of a major upgrade of its studio and post-production facilities.