World’s fastest growing motorsport with 8 races on 5 continents heads to new locations in 6th season.
The 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship takes off in Abu Dhabi on March 26/27 and then circles the globe with eight races on a record five continents this year with a highlight-packed calendar that includes new locations in New York City and Lisbon along with eagerly awaited returns to Rio de Janeiro and Germany. Britain’s Paul Bonhomme will be looking to defend his championship in an even faster field of 15 pilots from 13 nations after a thrilling battle last year against Austria’s Hannes Arch watched by millions.

Efficient communications are the key to produce smoothly run and well coordinated operations at large events such as the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. With a long history in equipping major-scale events such as the Winter Games 2006 in Torino or the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, Riedel Communications is predestinated for installing such an infrastructure.

Videographers with disabilities can now shoot professional-quality content using the industry-standard Polecam transportable video production jib thanks to an extraordinary new device developed at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Using the CanAssist Polecam Power Chair, a physically-challenged cameraman can keep pace with people and objects in motion. It is an easy-to-operate system for recording activities such as documentaries and sporting events.

MEDIAPRO will provide production services for Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of the FIFA World Cup this summer in South Africa, which is due to get underway on 11th June. A team of more than 100 technical staff will provide services for the channel from Qatar for the coverage which includes three different domains: Outdoor, Venues and IBC.

Following a year of strong growth, leading LED display developer, manufacturer and supplier Lighthouse Technologies Limited continues to forge new ground with several major global wins in the first quarter of 2010.

Online viewing of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games has surpassed all expectations. In total, over 12 million hours of viewing time was logged by EBU Member broadcasters' internet sites and the EBU aggregated live video portal www.eurovisionsports.tv.

The Vancouver 2010 Paralympics (March 12 to March 21) will receive record broadcast coverage.

The EBU Members of 17 European countries will ensure that the performances of the athletes will be widely broadcast with over 150 hours of coverage. Forty two hours of competition will be available live to European viewers.

SPORTELAsia 2010, the international sports content market, wrapped up a successful 3-day gathering yesterday at the 5-star Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, with a total of 527 participants, representing 291 companies from 45 countries worldwide in attendance, it was announced today by David Tomatis, CEO of SPORTEL. In making the announcement, Mr. Tomatis commented, “We are very pleased with the turnout and the reports from our clients that they had a busy and productive market."

NewTek, manufacturer of video and 3D animation products, today announced that TriCaster TCXD300 high definition/standard definition (HD/SD) portable live production system will provide live venue video at Winter X Games Europein Tignes, France, March 10 to 12, 2010.

SportelAsia and Eurodata TV Worldwide have joined forces in order to reward the sports events who deliver the highest ratings in the Asia-Pacific area.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is delighted to have reached an agreement with Flanders Classics the new organiser of the Tour of Flanders, to be its broadcast partner.
This decision will allow the European audience to follow this prestigious classic cycling race for 3 more years (2010, 2011, 2012) through extensive free-to-air TV and Radio coverage.

On-board camera systems have come a long way in the past 25 years thanks to enormous advances in camera technology. Likewise, the advent of digital microwave links has tranformed the way POV and other images are transmitted and received. The next big step is the transition to HD and, yet again, Gigawave is leading the way.

Germany's Magdalena Neuner earned her second biathlon gold of the Olympic Winter Games on Sunday when she won the 12.5km mass start as Sweden's World Cup leader Helena Jonsson suffered another flop. In additon to the 23 cameras on the track an Antelope UltraMotion Camera recorded the flying bullet onto the target.

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.

RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices, is proud to announce that Sonotechnique, a longtime RTW dealer in Canada, sold eight SurroundMonitor 10809X-PLUS and one SurroundControl 31900 systems to CTV a major Canadian private broadcaster. The equipment is being used to broadcast the 2010 Winter Games in Canada, which are being held February 12 – 28.