MEDIAPRO will be the host broadcaster for Canal + France and for the Euroleague for the Final Four basketball play-offs, which will take place from7th to 9th May in the Palais Omnisports stadium in Paris-Bercy which will see CSKA Moscow, Olympiacos Piraeus, Partizan Belgrade and Regal RC Barcelona all fighting it out for this year’s top spot in European club basketball.

The 2010 NBA Playoffs began on April 18 and is being broadcast live on ABC, ESPN, TNT, and NBA TV using the latest Grass Valley™ high-definition production technology.

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• Registration is possible until tomorrow

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Camera Corps reports a world-first in dynamic sports coverage with the successful use of live RF helmet cameras during snowboarding and ski-cross sports events held in Canada during February. Working in co-operation with transmission specialist Broadcast RF Ltd, Camera Corps was able to deliver some of the most dramatic winter sports video coverage ever obtained.

Hannes Arch of Austria came from behind to beat Nigel Lamb of Britain in dramatic fashion on Saturday to win one vital championship point with the fastest Qualifying time at the Red Bull Air Race in Rio de Janeiro in front of a record qualifying-day crowd of 400,000. Britain’s Paul Bonhomme, who still leads the overall championship, was a disappointing third on the high-speed, low-altitude 5,634-metre race track set up in front of Rio’s Flamengo Beach.

Fox Sports successfully operated the first ever EVS sport graphics system, Epsio, fully integrated to the original LSM replay controller, for live inserts of a virtual offside line during the soccer match between Australia and Indonesia at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on March 3rd.

Fujinon will provide technical service support to all valued customers at the 2010 FIFA WorldCup.

The service will be available from 5th June to 11th July 2010, service hrs: 09:00-18:00hrs (exception: 5th.June from 12:00hrs).

The Dubai World Cup 2010 offered horse racing enthusiasts and the glitterati set alike the hospitality only the Emirati can provide. Incorporating the opening of the iconic Meydan Grandstand and Racecourse – the new home of the Dubai World Cup – an extension of the programme has meant that the meeting now stages a total of eight races, making the meeting worth a phenomenal US$26.25million.

Sony announced that it will start streaming the FIFA World Cup™ Collection to BRAVIA TVs and Blu-ray Disc players across Europe via its BRAVIA Internet Video platform from late May.

Following the successful fan-based activities organised in Paris (2006), Athens (2007), Moscow (2008) and Rome (2009) during the previous years, the UEFA Champions Festival opens its doors for the public this year at the heart of the Spanish capital and welcomes all Madrileños, Spanish, finalists’ fans and city visitors to a week-long celebration of football which will be staged from Saturday 15 May to Saturday 22 May, closing just a few hours before the final takes place at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu of Madrid.

England’s Laura Davies defied tough, cold and windy conditions, to fire a closing four-under-par 68 and claim her 74th career victory at the UniCredit Ladies German Open, presented by Audi in Munich. Davies, 46, shot 10-under-par over the final two rounds at Golfpark Gut Häusern and came from nine strokes behind after Friday’s second round.

Broadcast Pix™ today announced that the South African Broadcasting Corp. (SABC), the official broadcaster of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, has purchased 10 Slate™ 1000 live video production systems for use during the international sports event. The tournament, which begins June 11 and features 32 teams from countries around the world, is expected to draw substantial crowds beyond ticketed spectators, and the Slate systems will be used to provide coverage for public viewing areas near each venue.

MLB Network, having completed its first full year in operation, has been honored with four Sports Emmy® awards for its inaugural year, including its signature daily studio show “MLB Tonight.” Three of the awards presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) honor MLB Network’s technical acumen in building one of the largest and most complex file-based video production centers in the country, featuring networked editing environment and a content management and repurposing architecture supported by Grass Valley™ technologies.

MEDIAPRO proved a highly successful host broadcaster for Canal + France and for the Euroleague basketball Final Four, held in Paris which saw Regal RC Barcelona crowned champions.

With this year’s English Premiership season drawing to a close, it’s now only a matter of weeks before the FIFA World Cup 2010 presents itself to televisions around the globe. Stadiums throughout South Africa are preparing themselves for the onslaught of international football fans, teams are warming up and intercontinental broadcasters are getting ready for one of the most important and high profile world broadcasting jobs of the decade.