UEFA and Carlsberg today announced an extension of their long term sponsorship agreement for UEFA’s flagship national team competition, a relationship which began in 1988 at the UEFA European Championship in the former West Germany.

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UEFA and McDonald’s, a UEFA EURO sponsor since 1992, today announced an extension of their long term sponsorship as Official Restaurant and UEFA EUROTOP Partner covering all competitions within the programme until 2017

With 20 days to go to the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, the IBC welcomed a Media Delegation, includ­ing some 120 journalists, as part of a tour of its major facilities on 21 May. During a three-hour event, the at­tendees were given an extensive tour of the premises and listened to detailed explanations about the role of the IBC in the broadcast of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. Four major stops were made during the tour, including the Aggreko Generator Park, the IT Command Centre (ITCC), the African Plaza, and the Master Control Room (MCR).

UEFA has today announced that the hosts of the final tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship in 2016 will be France.
UEFA President Michel Platini announced the winner in front of representatives of the bidding organisations at the Espace Hippomène in Geneva, Switzerland.

“The FIFA Broadcaster Servicing Team is the first point of contact to the Media Rights Licensees for any day-to-day business in regards to commercial is­sues but also for the han­dling of accreditation. An­other important duty is the monitoring of the TV and broadband transmissions during the event,” explains Bettina Vecchi of the FIFA Broadcaster Servicing Team (FBST) – the core members of which are permanently based at the IBC, on the east side of the African Plaza.

Vitec Group brands Sachtler and Vinten are collaborating with local distributor Telemedia to establish a full service facility in Johannesburg throughout the World Cup. The centre is being led by Christian Huber, sales and service support manager for Sachtler and Vinten.

 Belgium based and international TV broadcast and OB truck provider Alfacam equipped five HD OB trucks that will be used for the FIFA Football World Cup 2010 with a comprehensive MediorNet installation from Riedel Communications. MediorNet is a fiber based real-time signal distribution and routing solution for HD/SD video, audio, intercom and data that also includes software based processing features.

The International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ was officially opened yesterday morning by a number of dignitaries including FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, Chairman of the FIFA Organising Committee Issa Hayatou, Director of FIFA TV Niclas Ericson and HBS CEO Francis Tellier. The ceremony featured an official ribbon-cutting in the African Plaza, a visit to the African Union of Broadcasters' (AUB) unilateral premises and the switching-on of the Master Control Room (MCR).

Mediatec has just completed a 17-day production at three German venues of the IIHF World Championship. It is estimated that the tournament reached a cumulative viewing audience of over 650 million with 70 broadcasters transmitting in over 100 countries.

Megahertz (MHz), a leading independent international systems integrator, has recently delivered two custom-built vehicles to Mediatec UK. The outside broadcast (OB) vans will be used in conjunction with modular and mobile LED screens at major sporting, music and corporate events, including coverage of all international and domestic cricket matches. The 2010 season will see over 100 televised matches including the international series against Bangladesh, Australia and Pakistan.

Building on the success of “Vancouver live”, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its Member broadcasters will deliver the 2010 FIFA World Cup live online through its sports video portal www.eurovisionsports.tv/fifaworldcup.

Of all the broadcast solutions available to MRLs at the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, one of the most powerful is the FIFA MAX (Media Asset Exchange) Server, which provides its users with the opportunity to access tournament-related footage from a dedicated library. The FIFA MAX Server is built on the foundation of the Media Server, which was unveiled to great ac­claim during the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany, but has been significantly ex­panded and refined in response to tech­nological developments as well as to the extended production plan for this year’s tournament, which includes far more non-match footage than ever before.

Britain's Nigel Lamb won the first Qualifying point of his career on Saturday by posting the fastest time in Windsor ahead of Sunday's fourth race of the 2010 season. Britain's Paul Bonhomme was second with Hannes Arch of Austria third in front of a crowd of 48,000 spectators. Matt Hall’s plane touched the surface of the Detroit River, with his wings and right wheel splashing off the top of the water. The Australian quickly recovered and returned safely to the Race Airport in his slightly damaged airplane.

Austria's Hannes Arch won his third straight race in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship with a stirring performance in Windsor on Sunday, bouncing back with an emphatic victory in Canada just two days after suffering one of the worst pylon hits of his career. Britain's Paul Bonhomme took a close second in the difficult track that straddles the Canada-U.S. border over the Detroit River, his 11th straight podium, while American Kirby Chambliss made the top 3 for the first time this year with third place. Canada’s Pete McLeod was a disappointing ninth in front of his home crowd.