UEFA today announced an agreement with ARD and ZDF for the broadcasting rights ofUEFA EURO 2012™ in Germany.

The two public broadcasters have been long-term partners of UEFA for national teamcompetitions in Germany and had a very successful coverage of UEFA EURO 2008™ interms of audience figures.

The opening of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter games tomorrow is a fitting way to celebrate the EBU’s 60th birthday. The EBU has always recognized sports’ importance to audiences. With this event we will ensure access for more Europeans to more programmes across more media than ever.

The HD OBVan Directory 2010 will be released in early Apri, presenting 40 new HD OBVans from across EMEA and featuring 15 international system integrators and their business approach in the area of HD Studio and HD OBVan turnkey solutions. In addition we will have a review on the Olympics in Vancouver and a preview on the FIFA WC in South Africa

It cost $2.7 Billion to build, has two racecourses, a 290 room-with-a view luxury hotel, and a marina. Meydan also features a spectacular 1.2 kilometre grandstand where up to 60,000 spectators can to watch the action in comfort on a huge, 110 metre long, video display.

German pin-up Magdalena Neuner will be chasing her third Olympic medal in Thursday's 15km individual event as the Germany team look to underline their status as biathlon queens.

Maelle Ricker became the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold on home ground when she claimed victory in the snowboard cross on Tuesday.

Germany's Tatjana Huefner claimed gold in the women's singles on Tuesday as the German team threaten to sweep all three luge titles at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Bjorn Ferry bagged Sweden's first men's biathlon gold in 50 years on Tuesday when muscled past Austrian Christoph Sumann taking silver and France's Vincent Jay to win the pursuit title.

Snowboarding superstar and defending champion Shaun White won the Olympic men's halfpipe gold Wednesday, dazzling the judges with his tricks - including the gravity-defying Double McTwist 1260.White scored 48.4 out of 50 in his second run after 46.8 in his first, which was in itself enough to seal the title. Finland's Peetu Piiroinen took silver with a score of 45.0 and Scott Lago of the United States won bronze with 42.8.

Ski-jumping, cross-country, biathlon, snowboarding and freestyle skiing – just a few of the medal contests that will be televised around the world with a Lawo-produced soundtrack. One of Europe’s leading TV service providers, the Belgian company Alfacam, is deploying nine OB vans for the Winter Games in Canada, and all of them feature Lawo mc²66 consoles and Nova73 HD routers.

Dome Productions had set up 27 cameras for OBS to cover the the men's figure skating at the Pacific Coliseum. The set-up included one Ultra Motion Camera, one Polecam, two crane cameras, one dolly-crane camera, two wireless cameras and a remote head camera above the ice ring.

With its Thunder HD OB Truck Dome Productions is covering the Ice Hockey games at Canada Hockey Place with 27 cameras including two UltraMotion cameras, one from Arri Media (the HiMotion) and one from DVS (the Super Loupe). The 15 goals on the Switzerland - Norway and Slovakia - Latvia games were delivered in stunning playback quality.

The Mubadala Development Company, sponsor of Etihad Airways' Scuderia Ferrari Formula One in Abu Dhabi, recently held its signature dinner at the Emirates Palace. The dinner was arranged inside the world's largest freestanding Dome Truss, built from Eurotruss elements. For control, Lighting Designer Paul Smith chose a grandMA2 system consisting of 1 x grandMA2 full-size console and 1 x grandMA2 light console, 2 x MA NPUs (Network Processing Unit) and grandMA2 onPC software.

Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, proudly announces that its Hybrid Network (Hybrid Time-Division Multiplexing [TDM] Matrix/IP Server Intercom Network) was chosen as the intercom solution for the opening and closing ceremonies and other events of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The P.A. People, a premier AV supplier and integrator managing the ceremonies’ entire communications setup, selected the Hybrid Network for the unique level of flexibility it offers ─ a critical factor in meeting the high demands of this event.

Have you been watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games? Over 80 nations are competing in 15 different sporting events taking place in and around Vancouver, Canada, through Feb. 28th. The Olympics provide captivating drama that only sporting events on a massive, global scale can provide. From Alpine Skiing, Curling, and Figure Skating, to Ice Hockey, Ski Jumping, and Snowboarding, there’s an incredible amount of action going on, and NVIDIA and Sportvision are helping deliver that action via NBC to TV and Internet audiences in unique ways.

Lawo consoles and routers are currently major players in the production of international and national feeds in studios and OB vans in Vancouver and Whistler. Some of Lawo’s on-site customers include:

A man is enjoying his coffee in a picturesque winter setting in front of a ski lodge. Suddenly, he is showered with snow and falls back, startled. A ski jumper is using the roof of the lodge for another leap into the deep snow! This is a completely normal commercial from German public broadcaster ZDF, who use its coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler as an underlying theme. Some details, such as individual snowflakes, and the mantle of snow covering the lodge, which stands out in sharp contrast to a bright white escarpment, will, however, only be seen by viewers with HD TV sets.

National broadcasters from around the world are at the Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, for two weeks in February to bring their athletes’ stories to viewers in their home countries. When searching for studio space to anchor their multi-channel coverage, Italian broadcaster Sky Italia found space in an office building with expansive windows looking out on the Canadian city’s skyline.