The FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™ has come to an end after 52 matches played over 30 days and with a total attendance of more than 1.35 million. Plenty of records have fallen along the way - not least of which was the USA claiming a historic third title. Key quotes from the tournament organisers are available on FIFA.com, while below is a summary of the statistical highlights.

HBS, working in collaboration with Host Broadcaster MediaCorp as HB Production Partner, had the objective of delivering an international standard broadcast in order to raise the profile of the Games and the response from Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHBs) confirms a ‘best ever’ coverage has been achieved.

In the world of tennis, broadcasters must be ready to serve up any action that comes their way. Through the utilization of Wisycom equipment, Fréquence, a company specializing in wireless audio links, has provided a complete RF over Fiber solution to France Televisions (private signal). Thanks to Wisycom, Fréquence provided solutions to past problems during the tournament’s broadcast and enabled the three journalists from France Télévisions to work simultaneously during all 15 days of live action coverage.
 

When the world’s best cyclists set off on the famous Tour de France, the fans that line up along the roadsides will be joined by many more via the race’s extensive live radio and TV coverage. Produced by EUROMEDIA, this year’s event will make use of a new Lawo-equipped OB truck.

Digital sport leader, deltatre, provides the full digital platform, including website, video player and mobile apps for CBC/Radio-Canada's coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.

AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, today announced that Italian television production and services provider 3Zero2 TV has deployed 50 units of the company's DMNG PRO180-RA video uplink solutions to deliver live video transmissions for the Lega Pro football league coverage. The project was supported by Comsytec, AVIWEST's Italian distributor and system integrator. Featuring a portable design, AVIWEST's digital mobile newsgathering solution allows 3Zero2 TV to broadcast live HD video efficiently and cost-effectively over two bonded Ka-band satellite links.

International Sports Broadcasting (ISB), host broadcaster at the Baku 2015 First European Games, selected Eurovision Production Coordination (EPC), as a technical partner for the inaugural multi-sport event. Together with Quantel, EPC decided to upgrade its Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround production system for the event to record, log and edit content for highlights packages at the competition. While recording and playing out the event as part of ISB’s international delivery to 52 rights-holding organizations, the Enterprise sQ system was also integrated with MBT’s (Media & Broadcast Technologies) templated logging software and workflow engine to provide a fast and efficient end-to-end sports highlights production solution.

A spectacular two hour Opening Ceremony featuring US pop star Lady Gaga, inspired by Azerbaijani culture and starring more than 6,000 athletes from 50 countries in front of 68,000 enthralled spectators, launched the inaugural European Games in Baku.

The inaugural European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes devised by the European Olympic Committee took place in Azerbaijan’s ancient city Baku in June and featured 6,000 athletes from 50 countries.

After the massive success of his amazingly colourful and animated lighting for the Opening Ceremony of the 28th South East Asia Games, lighting designer Mac Chan used the same 460 Robe BMFLs – 360 BMFL Blades and 100 BMFL Spots – for another impressive show for the Closing event.

Telenet enhances its mobile coverage of sporting events by releasing a new multisport App - and compliant desktop website - as a result of a double alliance with digital sports market-leader deltatre and tech giant Microsoft.

From July 3 to 14, South Korea hosted another worldwide sport event - Universiade Gwangju 2015. Host broadcaster KBS took care of all broadcast technology to deliver the world feed. KBS once again relied on the VSM Broadcast Control and Monitoring System from L-S-B Broadcast Technologies to manage all workflows and signals within the International Broadcast Center (IBC) and for several OBs at the venues.

Telestream®, the leading provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, today announced that cable TV sports and outdoor lifestyles giant KSE Media Ventures is relying on four Vantage media processing systems running on Lightspeed servers to create a unified workflow for its sports and outdoor lifestyle channels.

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced that 2015 has again seen the company contracted to bring one of the world’s great sporting spectacles to screens around the globe: the 2015 Tour de France.  From the Grand Départ in Utrecht to the final iconic sprint on the Champs Élysées, Globecast successfully rose to both the technical and logistical challenges posed by this year’s event.  

Cerebrum, Axon Digital Design's customizable control and monitoring system, played a significant part in helping CTV Outside Broadcast deliver a much smoother service to its broadcast customers during this year's Open Golf Championship in St. Andrew’s, Scotland.