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Industry TrendsUCI and WWE bring the Metaverse and Web3 video into mainstream sports
Next week, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports promises to harness Web3 technology to preview what it calls a “metaverse experience” around the London leg of the UCI Track Champions League.
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Industry Trends
The Future of Sports: A broadcast view
The 2022 Media and Entertainment Leader Summit revealed a glimpse into the future of sports broadcasting, with insights from DAZN Group, Eurovision Sport, Synamedia, LaLiga and Adeia, reports Sheryl Hickey.
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Industry Trends
World Cup 2022: ITV and BBC share technical production for first time
The BBC and ITV have historically shared the broadcast of World Cup matches but the World Cup 2022 in Qatar is the first time the two have joined forces on production, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Accelerator - Cloud based live events, analytics and low latency protocols
IBC2022: This Accelerator project has explored how professional live sports events, with multiple camera feeds, can be delivered at scale with full visibility, including live IP signal ingest, standards conversion, while assessing the impact on latency at each stage of their cloud-based workflows.
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The John Logie Baird lecture - The state of the TV business and the next 5 years
IBC2022: 5G, ATSC3.0, OTT/SVOD, LIVE sports, virtual production, smart audience engagement and enhanced business models…the pace of evolution in the past three years was breath-taking. The industry now requires new thinking to stay connected to the audience. This panel discuss what strategies are working right now as well as initiatives ...
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Daily News
Yospace orchestrates ‘pop-up’ channels
Server-side ad insertion (SSAI) specialist Yospace demonstrated the latest advances in its technology including a new orchestration system and non-linear live streaming, designed to maximise the monetisation opportunities and user experience of live sports.
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News
Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group finalise sports deal
Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group have completed their transaction to form a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) that combines the assets of BT Sport and Eurosport UK.
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Daily News
Sports content ‘an engagement powerhouse’ — NPAW
While the global video streaming industry kept growing in the first half of 2022, each individual service continued losing playtime per user as the competition between platforms increased.
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Daily News
Dejero supports live remote production of El Salvador soccer league
Dejero is supporting Spanish production company, Quality, with its remote production workflow for the live broadcast of eight soccer matches per week for Tigo Sports’ coverage of El Salvador’s brand new national soccer league, Liga Nacional de Fútbol de El Salvador.
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Industry Trends
Evolving live sports production - lessons from the biggest sporting events
From 5G mobile connectivity to drones and data-enhanced storytelling, the biggest sporting events of 2022 show how new technologies are driving live sports production.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
With 22 live sports across 14 venues, the Commonwealth Games is bigger than, say, the UEFA Euros, and more complex by virtue of having multiple disciplines running concurrently.
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Industry Trends
Tour de France 2022: Behind the scenes with the WBDS mixed reality Cube
Behind the scenes at this year’s Tour de France 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports used the Cube studio to enhance its coverage of cycling’s greatest show.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: The Championships, Wimbledon 2022
With more matches broadcast than ever before, some in 360-degrees and plans for an UHD HDR upgrade, Wimbledon braces for two weeks of global attention.
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Industry Trends
Apple scoring MLS rights is part of a growing SVOD trend
The broadcast game is changing. In the pursuit of growth, streaming platforms are turning their attention to grabbing sports rights from traditional broadcasters.
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Industry Trends
Streaming live sport: lowering latency and enhancing quality
With the direct to consumer (D2C) model becoming more influential, live sports streaming is increasingly subject to the kind of quality expectations associated with traditional linear output, writes David Davies.
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News
Five billion people to watch 2022 World Cup
Five billion people around the world are expected to watch the 2022 World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said this week.
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IBC Digital 2021: Remote Production (Pre-COVID 19 and Post-COVID 19)
In 2021 we saw different leagues slowly starting coming back, we could see that operational teams located at different locations are able to share production resources for the successful delivery of live sports.
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Industry Trends
CTV and Telegenic rebrand as EMG
Consolidation of two historic live production providers signals EMG rebranding process in Europe is now complete, with further transformation and enhanced offerings to follow.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: 5G & remote production in live sport
The onset, rollout and continuing evolution of 5G has huge potential to help broadcasters accelerate their digitisation and transformation strategies and strengthen their market position right across the content value chain from production to distribution.
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Industry Trends
Multicast with a dial a delay option: 5G VISTA will ignite fan interest
The next big steps for the DCMS-sponsored 5G VISTA Project will be the imminent arrival of test handsets and the 31 March release of a report containing all the collateral from two years of technical and business case endeavours. VISTA stands for Video in Stadia Technical Architecture, but distributed events ...
