The International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ was officially opened yesterday morning by a number of dignitaries including FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, Chairman of the FIFA Organising Committee Issa Hayatou, Director of FIFA TV Niclas Ericson and HBS CEO Francis Tellier. The ceremony featured an official ribbon-cutting in the African Plaza, a visit to the African Union of Broadcasters' (AUB) unilateral premises and the switching-on of the Master Control Room (MCR).

Vimond Media Solutions announced today that Finland's largest commercial broadcaster MTV3 will deploy VimondSPORTS, a web player developed by Vimond to create an online, interactive ice hockey experience for viewers. The ice hockey portal — one of the first for Finland's advanced WebTV market — will give MTV3 a new revenue stream and a new way to engage viewers, enabling it to take full advantage of its ice hockey broadcasting rights.

Vimond Media Solutions announces that Marketing and Communications Director Henriette Saether will participate in a panel discussion at the Sports Video Group (SVG) Europe Football Production Summit in Paris on Wednesday, March 6 at 17:00. The session, titled "The Multi-screen Experience: Beyond Broadcast," will cover what it takes to create the second-screen experience football fans want.

The 2012/13 FIBT World Cup season is adding a new highlight to its calendar – the FIBT Triple Trophy. The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) and Infront Sports & Media, its media and marketing partner for the FIBT World Cup and World Championship events, are introducing the Triple Trophy as an innovative 100,000 Euro jackpot concept, which requires athletes from each discipline to win three pre-defined race highlights within the season. Also in commercial terms the FIBT looks forward to an exciting and fruitful season: All sponsorship packages available have been successfully sold by Infront for the FIBT World Cup as well as the World Championships.

Blackmagic Design today announced that the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, part of the ATP mens’ tennis tournament, deployed a big screen video production system built featuring the Blackmagic Design ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K and Teranex 2D Processor to enhance the crowd’s experience of the tournament.

VidOvation today announced that AVIWEST's DMNG PRO180-RA bonded cellular system reliably provided live broadcast coverage of the women's wheelchair race during the New York City Marathon on Nov. 5. As AVIWEST's exclusive distributor in the United States, VidOvation supplied the AVIWEST gear to CP Communications, the New York-based production service and digital media technology rental company whose expert technicians designed the video acquisition and transmission solutions and operated the equipment during the marathon.

Saturday, the 15th of June 2013 marked the start of an amazing year of football tournaments in Brazil - firstly with the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and almost  exactly 12 months later, the 2014 FIFA World Cup. All eyes in the footballing world will be on Brazil.

During SVG Europe’s Football Production Summit in Paris (March 23) Broadcast Solutions presented its video judging solution videoReferee® to the visitors of the event. Being an event sponsor Broadcast Solutions GmbH showed visitors of the event first hand, what is already possible in the field of professional video judging solutions. The company presented the variety of videoReferee® systems ranging from 4 to 16 channels. videoReferee® is a system already widely used in various sports all around the world, e.g. Canoe Slalom, Ice Hockey, Basketball and Volleyball.

The 2017 Wrestling World Championships in Paris relied on the videoReferee® video judging system to support the judges with fast video replays and multi-angle camera signals. The Wrestling World Championships, which took place from August 21-26 in Paris, for the first time was supported by acclaimed video judging system videoReferee®, provided by slow motion and replay specialist slomo.tv. The team of German System Integrator Broadcast Solutions GmbH was on site during the complete tournament to operate the system and to help the video referees in charge.

The 2017 IHF Men’s Handball World Championships in France will probably be the fairest competitions ever when it comes to referee decisions. During the World Championships German System Integration Company Broadcast Solutions GmbH will provide the technology for the video support of the referees with several videoReferee® systems. Together with technology provider Slomo.tv, all of the competition venues will be equipped with the VideoReferee ® video judging systems and will be supported by Broadcast Solutions during the tournament.

Since the legendary Wembley-goal during the FIFA WC 1966 sports fans all over the world are discussing more and more complicated game situations and wrong decisions. In many sports tournaments decision-making by referees often is facing doubt and distrust. Today fans often have a clearer view using e.g. their smartphones to watch the television signal inside the arena or just by having a better position of view. Every wrong decision and the emotions coming with it are frustrating the fans even more but also the sportsman for sure.

An important piece of history will be made at the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016 (8‑18 December in Yokohama and Osaka) with video assistance being used to support referees with “match-changing” decisions for the first time in a FIFA competition.

The 2020 African Nations Championship also known as the Championnat d'Afrique des Nations or CHAN was held from January 16 to February 7, 2021. This sixth edition of the biennial football tournament was organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and hosted by Cameroon. Morocco may have successfully defended their title, but the Cameroon Football Federation wrote a new page in the video assistant referee playbook.

As the giants of the tennis world battled for victory at Roland Garros, VIDELIO-Events + Utram and Riedel Communications' MediorNet real-time media network brought the spectacle to large-screen displays distributed across courts at the storied Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, as well as to the internal IPTV distribution network supporting the entire tournament. The live video processing and distribution system supplied by VIDELIO and Riedel enabled the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) to provide fans with the rich and informative visual and aural production expected of today's top-tier sports events.
 

Once upon a time, television production trucks were like cruise ships on wheels. They pulled into a sporting event, swaggering with self-importance; fifty feet of gleaming metal pulled behind a pavement-buckling Peterbilt that belched diesel smoke and deafened every innocent bystander within a mile’s radius. Once parked, these production trailers began unloading thousands of pounds of equipment and unspooled miles of cable. Inside one these lustrous fifty-foot beasts, you might find a dozen or more crew members, all working away happily, while the truck sucked down power like a thirsty brontosaurus.