LiveU released its live broadcasting figures during the FIFA World Cup™ in Russia with 485 units onsite used by customers from over 40 countries. The numbers have doubled, and even tripled, since the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ – including over 15,000 hours of live broadcasting, over 30,000 live sessions and 36TB of live transmission – with LiveU’s LU600 4K HEVC solution enabling customers to broadcast more hours with less data. Customers used LiveU to follow the teams, interview the players and the fans, and capture the atmosphere with daily live feeds.

SportsEngine Inc., an NBC Sports Group company and the leading youth sports technology provider, announced today that they have partnered with Pixellot, the global leader in automated sports production for the semi-professional market. With the formation of this partnership, Pixellot will be included in the new SportsEngine Marketplace, featuring their  sports production solutions that revolutionize traditional video capture, production and distribution processes. Pixellot’s solutions enable professional and amateur sports organizations to affordably cover and monetize their events.

CP Communications, a leader in innovative solutions and services for complex live event productions, returned to the annual All-Star Game this month for the 18^th consecutive year, with an expanded RF transmission presence that stretched far beyond the core nine innings.

Only a few months after forging their partnership, Riedel Communications and PIDSO have rolled out their first joint project — a comprehensive solution for the DTM (formerly known as Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters or German Touring Car Masters). The two companies have designed and installed a broadband audio communications system for DTM that integrates advanced antenna technology from PIDSO with Riedel's MediorNet real-time network.

Sony Professional Solutions Europe has announced Sony Virtual Production, an on-demand cloud production service that provides a complete production toolset for multi-platform content creation and delivery, at Red Bull’s Alpenbrevet motorcycle race in Sarnen, Switzerland, which took place last weekend.

Matches in four cities, more than thirty different camera streams, but only one production control room, all managed on site. FabriQ Media Group, TIG Sports, United, Red Bee Media and Riedel Communications made it happen at the DELA European Beach Volleyball Championships. "Remote production control is the future. This innovative approach could very well be the standard in five years’ time,” says Gijs Vos, project manager at United.

The era of the Beach Volley Vikings is showing no signs of stopping as the new superstars of the sand Anders Mol and Christian Sørum shot to the top of the world rankings after storming to the A1 Major Vienna presented by Swatch title.

Building on the global popularity of the NBA, the new NBA 2K League brings together two teams of professional “e-sports” athletes that use specialized gaming controllers to move NBA-Star Avatars—passing the ball and making the shots—on a virtual court. For live and on-demand audiences watching on the Twitch.tv online network, Renewed Vision’s PVP3 media server and screen control system has amplified the visual excitement and fan engagement by powering NBA 2K’s dynamic, multiscreen experience.

The Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb has been attempted by some of the world’s most accomplished racing drivers attempting to be the fastest up the 1,000 yard, 1 in 6 gradient track. In celebration of the motorsport venue’s 113th birthday, Formula E driver, Mitch Evans was the next to add his name to the list, in the seat of the Jaguar I-TYPE 2, the new car for Panasonic Jaguar Racing Formula E’s team, in its UK debut.

After a dramatic debut in the skies of Kazan last season, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship will take off at Russia’s sporting capital once again for the fifth stop of 2018. With a new track, new rivalries and only four races left before the champion is crowned, expect fierce flying and a fight to the finish.

PUBG’s e-sports Battlegrounds are conquering Berlin: the world’s 20 best PUBG teams were competing for 2M dollar prize money at the Global Invitational Meeting 2018 in Mercedes-Benz-Arena Berlin from July 25th-29th. Despite only having been published in December 2017, the game has already gained a huge fan base: the tournament was commented live in four different languages and streamed online which attracted up to 60M spectators at the same time. PRG provided all the event technology (rigging, static calculation, sound, video and lighting technology), including related video processing components.

On Wednesday evening (22.09), Dutch racer Dion Beukeboom attempted to break the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Hour Record, gunning for Sir Bradley Wiggins’s iconic feat from three years ago.

Perfect weather and 128,000 spectators greeted the Red Bull Air Race return to Kazan, Russia on 25-26 August, where Martin Sonka captured his second race victory in a row. In second place, the USA’s Michael Goulian regained the top of the overall leaderboard, while fellow American Kirby Chambliss repeated on the Kazan podium, this time in third.

LiveU and Auto24, the official Silk Way Rally 2018 production and broadcasting company, have joined forces to bring all the excitement of the international off-road rally in Russia to car race enthusiasts everywhere. For the first time, live transmissions were shared during the rally itself. With 50 participating teams, the annual eight-day rally along the historical silk way is one of the highest-profile, challenging sporting events in the country. Competing in trucks, jeeps and large cars, international teams travel across the same route as merchants journeyed hundreds of years ago, crossing remote desert regions and rural terrain.

Throughout IBC2018, demonstrations on stand 8.B90 will show visitors how live esports event producers can use technology from EVS, the leading provider of live production solutions, to output the highest-quality live esports programming.