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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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Video
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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Video
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 ...