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TV Bandeirantes at the FIFA World Cup 2010
“We have a very good team, we have very experienced players but in a World Cup you have no margin for error,” says Jose Carlos da Silveira Junior, or ‘Juca’ as he is affectionately known, of the Brazilian national team’s chances at the FIFA World Cup™. The same can be said of the TV Bandeirantes team, given that they will be debuting eye-catching HD coverage of the event for Seleção fans.
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Camera Corps' new Net-Cam goes into action in South Africa
Football fans around the world are able to enjoy unsurpassed coverage of the 2010 South African international tournament (June 11 to July 11) thanks to Camera Corps' new Net-Cam. Developed specifically for this event, Net-Cam is a miniature HD camera with a high-quality ultra-wide-angle lens, designed specifically to capture the entire goal-mouth from the rear corner of the net.
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NOS at the FIFA World Cup 2010
Not every MRL has brought a large team to South Africa: for Dutch broadcaster NOS there are under 30 staff on site. That would mean a fast and furious chase around the country for their four ENG crews if they were to get all the footage they needed – thankfully the FIFA Max Server is there to help.
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STV at the FIFA World Cup 2010
“It’s good to be back!” That is the message from Slovakian broadcaster STV, who are on site at the FIFA World Cup™ IBC for the first time since 1998. “Since [Slovakia’s] independence in 1994, STV has broadcast every FIFA World Cup™, but the last two we did not attend,” explained Team Leader Marcel Merciak. “We are here thanks to the national team, with no qualification we would have broadcast from a studio.”
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SABC at the FIFA World Cup 20210
“Our slogan for this World Cup is ‘Feel it, it is here!’,” explains Diane Stanton-Lourens, Head of Production for SABC Sport. It is hard to disagree with this sentiment. SABC will be broadcasting all 64 matches in SD, across three channels, as well as “simulcasting” across 18 radio stations in all eleven of the officially recognised South African languages. Diane, working on her sixth FIFA World Cup™, has 22 years of experience in televised sporting events, having worked her way up from her start as a production assistant to her current position.
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More than 50 Lawo Systems for the Sound of World Football
More than 50 Lawo systems, used by numerous national broadcasters and for the production of international audio feeds, are in use at the World Cup in South Africa. Audio feeds from all the commentators are sent digitally from the stadiums to the International Broadcast Center (IBC) via a Lawo Nova73 HD routing matrix, and are available directly from the IBC or via ISDN for use in home country broadcasts.
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A glimpse into the heart of the TV coverage from South Africa
The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) is the technical lynchpin of the international match transmissions. In the IBC the signals from all ten World Cup stadiums are received, processed and finally sent off around the world in High Definition quality using glass fibre cable.
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MINT Polo in the Park’s Summer Dimension
Over 25,000 spectators have been treated to a spectacular new event hitting summer’s social calendar. MINT Polo in the Park brought the sport of royals to London’s Hurlingham Park over three days this month, with a new format to the game making for a faster and more exciting experience forTV and event spectators.
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ENTV at the FIFA World Cup 2010
“This is the first World Cup that we have been present at in 24 years,” explains Abdelhakim Djama, News and Sports Programme Coordinator for ENTV Algeria. “As the team here were too young back then to take part, that makes this a first event for most of us!”
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RTV at the FIFA World Cup 2010
Practice makes perfect – certainly for RTV Slovenija, who are broadcasting the FIFA World Cup™ in full HD for the first time after fine-tuning the process at the Beijing Olympic Games and at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. “Beijing was a test event for us in HD and then Vancouver was the first major project where we relayed everything to our viewers in HD – it gave us great experience for this event,” explained Producer Mateja Mir.
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Arch Top of Town in New York with Qualifying Victory
Austria’s Hannes Arch qualified fastest for the first-ever Red Bull Air Race in New York on Saturday and collected one championship point that cut Paul Bonhomme‘s lead at the top to just one point before Sunday’s race. Canada's Pete McLeod took a remarkable third place on the turn-filled track on the Hudson River, between the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyscrapers. Americans Kirby Chambliss and Michael Goulian were in strong position for Sunday in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
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TVNZ at the FIFA World Cup 2010
“Football is not tremendously popular in New Zealand,” admits Rodney Haugh, Project Engineer for Special Events with TVNZ at the IBC, “or rather, it was not tremendously popular until the All Whites qualified. That popularity has definitely grown with the opening result - viewing stats were through the roof back home.”
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Bonhomme Triumphs in Red Bull Air Race New York
Paul Bonhomme of Britain won the first-ever Red Bull Air Race in New York on Sunday with a scintillating performance under pressure in front of the most spectacular setting in the eight-year history of the sport. Nigel Lamb took second place in a thrilling four-way battle between the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan while American Kirby Chambliss got his second straight podium with third place.
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TV2 Denmark at the FIFA World Cup 2010
“TV2 are operating in two parts at this World Cup,” explained Henrik “Bob” Frederiksen, Production Executive for TV2, “one team of three to four people are working with the match feeds and the FIFA MAX footage to send back home. The remaining 17 members of the team are purely concentrated on the Danish team.” This second part includes an ENG crew dedicated to following the team’s training sessions, as well as an OB van at the Danish matches.
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Athletics CG, well succeed Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup was the seventh event of this years' season and took place between June 18 and June 20 in São João da Madeira, near Porto - Portugal. It was the first Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Portugal and wTVision couldn't miss it.
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