During the discussions of the 21st International Symposium, to be held on Tuesday 12 October 2010, at 10:30 am during SPORTEL in Monaco, outstanding female personalities will be sharing their opinions about the status of women in the world sport.

The IRB Rugby World Cup was the biggest sporting event ever to be staged on New Zealand shores. It kicked-off on 9th September 2011 with the Opening Ceremony at Auckland’s Eden Park, broadcast to a global television audience estimated at over 50 million. An estimated 200,000 people crowded the Auckland waterfront precinct to take in the visual spectacle aptly named “All Lit Up”. Lighting Designer David Eversfield relied on a grandMA2 system for control.

Calling the videoboard installation at EverBank Field “ambitious” is like saying Jacksonville, FL, is about to get “a little warm.” True, for sure, but wildly understated. In the videoboard arms race, the Jacksonville Jaguars have hurtled past their NFL competition, and, with a 60-ft.-high by 362-ft.-wide videoboard broadcasting 8K content in each end zone, it’s hard to imagine they’ll be matched any time soon writes Karn Hogan for Sports Video Group.

LiveU’s is pleased to announce that Swedish communications company Spocks Family, which specialises in storytelling for video production, turned to LiveU to bring the complete 2016 ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship live in high quality to online viewers. The LiveU technology and support was provided by Mediability (formerly AVIT Systems).

Monday, 4th February will see the official opening of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 in Åre with a ceremony in the Åre park located between Åre Torg (Åre Town Square) and Åre Station. The park will be transformed into an open-air stage – Medals Plaza – where the Championships visitors will be treated to the award ceremonies and a series of concerts in the course of the next two weeks.

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Åre 2019 concluded Sunday, 17 February, with the men’s slalom competition and the closing ceremony. To officially mark the end of the season’s highlight event in Åre, Sweden, the local organizing committee handed over the flag of the International Ski Federation (FIS) to the organizers of the 2021 World Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Brilliant Ágatha Bednarczuk and Duda Lisboa Santos swapped last season’s silver medal for a gold one as the Brazilians lifted the Beach Volleyball FIVB World Tour Finals title in Hamburg.
 

The 22nd European Athletics Championships in Zürich crossed the milestone of 1,000 hours of live television coverage, with 35 international broadcasters from across Europe planning to televise the biggest athletics event of the year. Host broadcaster is Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) and broadcasters taking the feed include BBC UK, NRK Norway, France Télévisions, NOS Netherlands, YLE Finland, RAI Italy, ARD and ZDF in Germany, TV4 Sweden and TVP Poland.

On 4th June the broadcast transmission specialist Josef Rade and his production team, consisting of a cutter and a cameraman, picked up their SNG at the port of Durban. They made a few minor changes to the production technology in the SNG and also had to configure the parts that were flown out from Germany at the last minute. Then finally it was off to the North-East of South Africa, where the SNG North team underwent its final test in Johannesburg on 7th June and was given the all clear for “unrestricted transmission readiness”.

NEP The Netherlands will provide the complete technology for the Ziggo Sport channels, with an end-to-end workflow developed by NEP and built in-house. This solution seamlessly fits Ziggo’s workflow and includes teleport, MCR, studios, Cloud Production, live and post production facilities and offices. Ziggo Sport is located in NEP Studio 11, in the heart of the Hilversum Media Park.

For fans of the Mean Green football and basketball teams at the University of North Texas, high-impact instant replays are an integral and exciting part of the live game-day experience. Since migrating to the ZEPLAY instant replay server from Tightrope Media Systems, the North Texas Athletics video department team has bolstered the reliability, quality and workflow efficiency of all instant replay and highlight “melt” productions.

German public broadcaster ZDF produced the friendly football match between Germany and Brazil on 27 March in the Berlin Olympic Stadium for the first time for the first time with new possibilities for image composition.

Blackmagic Design has announced that a live production workflow featuring it's ATEM Television Studio Pro HD switcher and Teranex AV is being used to produce a new fans' football show by YouTuber The True Geordie in partnership with bookmakers Coral. 

Pressure? What pressure? It’s the World Cup for Finland’s national sport, the country’s ski-jumping legend Janne Ahonen is making his last-ever appearance, the broadcast output is international….and YLE is debuting its brand-new TV OBV U10, featuring a Lawo mc²66 and the first Sapphire desk in a mobile application.

The controversy surrounding the constant hornet-like swarming noise produced by vuvuzelas haunted this year’s Soccer World Cup since the very first games. Meanwhile, broadcasters had to resort to filtering the audio: “The ability to use the steep notch filters on a Lawo console’s EQ was extremely helpful in the creation of signals with reduced interference from the vuvuzelas,” explains Carsten Higler, technical director of ARD, the German public national radio and TV network.