Arqiva is supporting sports broadcaster ESPN’s distribution of World Cup coverage by providing them with extensive SNG services. This includes two HD SNGs; two SD SNGs; one HD&SD Production SNG truck; two TVROs; and an HD flyaway. The SNGs, all fully crewed by Arqiva engineers, will move between venues uplinking news and information content for production and turnaround to ESPN’s global audience.

 More than 120 million viewers worldwide witnessed an exciting and entertaining event with the 55th Eurovision song contest that took place in the Telenor Arena Oslo on May 29th. Large live television events such as the Eurovision Song Contest need special considerations for their event and broadcast installations. Usually this means several separate systems, lots of cabling and plenty of work. This year the Norwegian Broadcast Corporation NRK used an extensive installation from Riedel Communications to handle this enormous event. Riedel's MediorNet technology combined and integrated the various parts of the event's infrastructure such as cameras, intercom and lighting into one single communications and signal distribution backbone. The system transported a combination of Riedel MediorNet, Artist digital matrix intercom, Performer digital partyline intercom, as well as the RockNet digital audio network.

SIS LIVE, Europe’s largest outside broadcast (OB) and uplink supplier, is proud to announce that it is an official supporter of the England 2018 World Cup Bid. As part of its commitment to helping England secure the backing of FIFA, SIS LIVE is offering its technical expertise and its experience in running major sporting events to the England 2018 team. Specifically, SIS played a major part in helping England 2018 to develop its broadcast offering within its proposal to FIFA. England’s Bid Book was officially delivered in Zurich on May 14th.

Omneon, Inc. today announced that Kazakhstan's 7 Channel, a new national channel based in Astana, is using an Omneon media storage and processing platform to support a highly automated tapeless news production workflow. Representing one of the first applications of tapeless broadcast technologies in Kazakhstan, the deployment of the Omneon MediaGrid(TM) active storage system and the Omneon Spectrum(TM) media server systems allows 7 Channel to realize fast, reliable processing of media in a flexible model for news production and playout.

For the first time in French television history M6 broadcasted in 3D, with the assistance of Orad's Stereographics solution. Thanks to Stereographics, M6 are able to render and display their graphics in real time for the most exciting French Pop Idol production ever.

After the end of the BBVA League and with three games to go in the Liga Adelante, GOL TELEVISION turns its attention to the World Cup which gets underway this week in South Africa, the year’s most important sporting event held every four years. The channel will provide viewers with comprehensive coverage right from the kick-off on 11th June and throughout the tournament which comes to a close a month later on 11th July. To get things moving, GOL TELEVISION will cover the opening concert of the World Cup on 10th June from 22.00, from the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg which will feature performances from Shakira, Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas and Juanes.

Lena was overjoyed when she won the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, and Europe was just as pleased with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK): the broadcaster presented a fantastic music event with outstanding competitors to the whole of Europe. “We want to share the Eurovision Song Contest, rather than just broadcast it,” said Hasse Lindmo, Contest Producer at NRK, when he introduced the motto, “Share the moment”. And the broadcaster more than fulfilled its promise. Audio specialist Sennheiser provided the wireless microphone and monitoring technology for this massive event for the 23rd time – in fact, it was the largest wireless system ever used for a Song Contest.

Arqiva is providing Sky with 36MHz of W7 satellite capacity for the duration of the football World Cup in South Africa. This will deliver their news coverage from South Africa to Sky’s UK facilities for broadcast as Sky News and Sky Sports News.

Bringing the best FIFA World Cup™ experience to your audience is the key objective of every MRL, but some go a little further and bring the fans to the event. “We are running a special draw for Al­gerian subscribers,” explained Yousif Al-Obaidli, Al Jazeera Sport’s Head of Overseas Services and World Cup Project Manager. “Five hundred fans will be drawn to come here and we will fund their travel, tickets and accommodation. It is a nice way to support our community.”

ARET is a provider of broadcast of broadcast facilities, turnkey video and audio integrated systems for broadcast, cable, satellite, production/postproduction and mobile television. ARET plays an important role as equipment distributor for many important brands in Italy and abroad. ARET will be exhibiting at booth 7L1-01

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.

For the exclusive coverage of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, KM, the production company in charge of TV Festival de Cannes, placed once again its confidence in EVS Instant Tapeless Technology.

Broadcasting from a busy location without disturbing the on-site audience is a basic principle of WDR’s mobile radio studio operation. Numerous guests, including Xavier Naidoo, visited the mobile studio during the ‘1Live – A Night in Essen’ show, while listeners of 1Live, WDR’s youth radio, were able to observe the process of radio broadcasting first hand in the ‘Café Solo’.

With only days to go until the world's most widely viewed sporting event gets underway, companies are standardising on TSL professional audio products to ensure the optimum audio experience.
Host Broadcast Services production facilities for the coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ will be equipped with PAM1-3G8 professional audio monitors. Also Alfacam's 8 HD OBVans in use to produce the unilateral signals for ARD/ZDF and TV Asahi are equipped with PAM1-3G8 units and four SABC HD OBVans are furnished with a generous supply of AMU2-8HD, MPA and AMU1 units.

MultiTouch, Ltd., developer of the world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen for large-scale displays, and Riolab, a leading interactive display production firm, have collaborated on the largest multitouch display ever produced for a World’s Fair. The Wall of Chile (Muro de Chile) for the Chilean Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China features a 4-meter-long (13’) and 1.2-meter-high (4’) display wall that enables visitors to access more than six hours of high-definition video and thousands of photographs from historical archives, including satellite, natural, and terrestrial images that detail Chile’s culture and character. The wall will appear at the Chilean Pavilion through October 31, 2010.