This panel will tackle the economic consequences of the current crisis on the financing of sport (sponsorship, TV rights, etc) by type of sport, in various countries worldwide. It will seek to learn from the economic models of certain major sports including football.

3 is not the number of goals scored in the France-Brazil friendly match on 9 February 2011, but rather the number of OB trucks deployed by Euro Media France at the Stade de France for the 14th match between the French and Brazilian teams.

Five music industry stalwarts, who cycled even further than Land’s End to John O’Groats, arrived in London this weekend (Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October), stopping at iconic venues in the capital including O2 Academy Brixton, The O2, Alexandra Palace, Roundhouse, The SSE Arena, Wembley, The Tabernacle, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Eventim Apollo, to the Royal Albert Hall, after cycling 1,700km across the country, starting in Newcastle via more than 130 iconic live entertainment venues and festival sites in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol, Bournemouth, Brighton and more.

Never before has Guntermann & Drunck attended as many trade shows as in 2013. And the month with the most stops at trade shows is still on: In June alone, G&D will exhibit at six of the 15 scheduled trade shows. The KVM equipment and its consultants will tour the entire globe.

With 15 of the biggest Chutney Soca artists in the world taking part, the recent Chutney Soca Monarch competition, held at Skinner Park in Trinidad’s San Fernando, was the biggest of its kind in the world, showcasing talent from North America, the Caribbean and the UK. This event has been taking place for the past 18 years under the organisation of George Singh’s South Ex Event Management.

ATEME announced today that the new IP video network deployed by SKY Italia between Rome and Milan will use its contribution encoders and decoders for enhanced quality and bandwidth efficiency. The multi-channel service will span over 4 Points of Presence initially, and will be used for content exchange across sites, primary distribution, and disaster recovery.

Broadcast Solutions delivered a 10 camera OB van to Mediatec Broadcast AB in Sweden at the end of February 2012. The vehicle is based on the standardized Streamline Concept, but with an additional expansion module in the control room.

One hundred Claypaky XTYLOS units were used to create the "Il colore del suono" (the color of sound) lighting rig, conceived by the Giò Forma studio and created in conjunction with Claypaky's lighting designer Marco Zucchinali.

Football fans in Russia and around the world today shared their enthusiasm as FIFA, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and hosts Russia celebrated 100 days to go to the 2018 FIFA World Cup™. The milestone was marked by festivities across the 11 Host Cities and included a range of football matches, a 2018-metre race in Volgograd, thousands of volunteers ice skating in Moscow and a dancing masterclass entitled “We are the fans!” in Nizhny Novgorod.

Audinate, the inventors of the award winning Dante™ digital media networking solution, announced that Studio Technologies has become the 100th Dante OEM partner. Built on existing networking protocols and standards, Dante is a plug and play solution which delivers ultra-low latency, tightly synchronized media, while simplifying installation and configuration of digital media networks. With over 3.5 million channels of Dante channels shipped last year, Dante has rapidly become the leading media networking solution.

Year-long celebrations for one of the oldestbusinesses in television. Vinten® is celebrating its centenary in 2010. It wason 1 January 1910 that William Vinten, already noted as a remarkable mechanicalengineer, took over a workshop in Wardour Street in London as his own business,at first repairing then designing and building cameras.

Sony Professional Solutions Europe has signed an important agreement with RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana — Italy's national public broadcasting company) for the further supply of over 300 pieces of equipment from the XDCAM line, which includes: shoulder-mount camcorders — PDW-680 Series, studio decks — PDW-HD1200 Series, editing drives — PDW-U2 Series and XDCAM stations — XDS-PD1000/2000 Series. With this latest acquisition, RAI now has over 1000 units of XDCAM equipment with disc technology.

Arcus Lighting, exclusive distributor in Germany for High End Systems, a Barco company, supported "Die Happy" and LD Rolf Wenzel. "Die Happy", a German rock band, played their 1000th concert in Ulm, Germany.

The centenary edition of the Tour de France started in Corsica and finished on July 21, on the Champs-Elysées. A total of 87 people pulled on the Euro Media France jersey this year! The team provided three weeks of ever more stunning coverage for viewers in 190 countries, including a number of technical feats and exploits, thanks to Livetools' digital transmitters and receivers.

It’s regarded as a classic ‘Open Water’ race, stretching 2225-miles across the Pacific Ocean from the USA’s west coast to the finish in front of the iconic ‘Diamond Head’ volcano in Hawaii. It was first sailed in 1906 as an idea inspired a decade earlier by Hawaiian King David Kalakaua, and has been an attraction for all avid ocean racers and adventurers ever since.