To upgrade an award-winning production facility that major networks use for live coverage, Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky has purchased routing and other equipment from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand. The track—a longtime Grass Valley customer—is now installing new equipment that will improve replay capabilities and enable future growth for both day-to-day operations and major events where networks broadcast live on-site.

EVS and FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, organiser of FIBA Basketball World Cup and other events like FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA AmeriCup, the FIBA AfroBasket Cup and the FIBA Asia Cup, are bringing a very special event to the EVS booth at the 2016 NAB Show – The #EVSlamDunk Experience.

Host Broadcast Services (HBS), the leading sports production and host broadcasting company, has been selected as a production partner for the 2016 Copa America Centenario, a once-in-a-lifetime football event, which honours 100 years of the Copa America competition. The tournament will feature some of the world’s best teams and players and will be held from 3 to 26 June 2016, across 10 cities in the United States.

The latest edition of SVG Europe’s Football Production Summit commenced with an in-depth examination of the organisational set-up and broadcast workflow evolutions being put in place for the EURO 2016 Championships, which are due to commence on June 10. The revealing presentation was given by UEFA digital media solutions manager Oliver Gaches and TV transmission manager Nicolas Deal.

Sven Kramer came to Berlin to lead the Dutch quest to equal Norway’s record total of 36 World Allround titles in the Men’s tournament at Sportforum Hohenschönhausen. Martina Sábliková (CZE) and Ireen Wüst (NED) reignited their battle for the ladies’ crown after Wüst’s absence on the international stage in the first half of the World Cup season. Kramer and Sáblíková were the defending Champions.

The passing of each El Clásico leaves in its wake — without exception — a brand new chapter in the annals of history documenting the grandest of rivalries: Futbol Club Barcelona versus Real Madrid.

As boxing legend Manny Pacquiao heads to the 66th and final fight of an illustrious career, Team Pacquiao is partnering with Global Sports Streaming (GSS) to bring his dedicated fans a front-row look at his training camp regimen and pre-fight activities through a series of livestreams to Pacquiao’s YouTube Channel. GSS has selected LiveU’s new Solo ‘plug and play’ live streaming bonding solution to connect automatically to YouTube Live. Team Pacquiao is using its social media network to drive the fighter’s more than 12 million fans to his YouTube Channel.

Following an open call for tender, France Télévisions has renewed its trust in EUROMEDIA for the provision of RF (Radio Frequency) means that will be used to cover a large part of the cycling races broadcast by the public group for the period 2016-2020.

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected NEP Group to provide mobile broadcasting and engineering consulting for its production of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 - August 21. The announcement was made today by Christopher Adams, Vice President Venue Engineering, NBC Olympics and Deb Honkus, NEP Founder and Chairwoman.

Sports digital and broadcast firm deltatre announces its innovative technology partnership with tracking leader ChyronHego, designed to develop further advancements in next generation sports services. Under the deal, the two will explore new frontiers in football data exploitment, enhancing the coverage of the ongoing, and next two, UEFA Champions League seasons, as well as the coverage of the UEFA EURO 2016 finals in France, set to kick off in June.

At the 2016 NAB Show, Viaccess-Orca, a global leader in the protection and enhancement of content services; Harmonic, the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure; and VideoStitch, will showcase their best-of-breed virtual reality (VR) solution that is currently being tested by pay-TV operator Sky Italia to broadcast a basketball game.

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Calrec to provide seven audio mixing consoles for its production of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, which take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Aug. 5-21. The announcement was made today by Karl Malone, Director, Sound Design, NBC Sports & Olympics and Dave Letson, Vice President of Sales, Calrec.

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage system and Spectrum™ MediaDeck integrated media servers for its production of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Aug. 5 – Aug. 21. The announcement was made today by David Mazza, CTO & SVP of NBC Olympics and Bart Spriester, SVP, Video Products at Harmonic.

Irish rental and production specialist Just Lite delivered full technical production, including lighting equipment and design, for BAMMA 24 working for production manager Sven Knight and his team from KRS. The mixed martial arts tournament was staged in 3 Arena, Dublin, and broadcast live on Spike (UK) Channel 5 in the UK and Ireland, ESPN 3 in the US plus numerous others worldwide as well as streamed live via main sponsor Lonsdale’s Facebook.

ChyronHego today announced that Kanal 75, the media arm of Sweden's trotting and thoroughbred horse racing organization known as ATG, has purchased 17 ChyronHego systems that will add tracking, analysis, and virtual graphics to its broadcasts of Swedish Trotting Association races. Each system combines ChyronHego's ZXY sports analysis product, its Virtual Placement tool, and its GS2 graphics engine. The project is the first for ChyronHego's ZXY technology outside of soccer and one of the largest of its kind in the world of horse racing.