The opening rounds of the French Open begin on Sunday 26 May at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, with an expected international TV audience of tens of millions set to tune in for the clay court action. 3G HD feeds of the host broadcast coverage for US broadcasters will be monitored in the flyaway [...]

Olympic Gold Medallist Katie Taylor is to become the first ambassador for Ireland’s Sky Sports Living for Sport programme, a free initiative run in partnership with Youth Sport Trust. Sky Ireland is looking to encourage thousands of young people across a third of secondary schools in Ireland to take part within the next three years. [...]

With the broadcaster still reeling from the crisis sparked by revelations surrounding disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile, it’s not been an easy few months for the BBC. Now, in a highly embarrassing turn of events, the Corporation has decided to scrap its Digital Media Initiative (DMI) after spending £98.4m. Established in 2008, the DMI was devised [...]

Out of the 19 races that make up the Formula One season, Monaco is in a class of its own. In fact, in addition to its magnificent city street circuit proposed by the Principality, it is also the only race that the Formula One Management does not produce entirely for international broadcasting. Unlike the other [...]

A 24-hour channel owned by CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference) and broadcast both on DTT and satellite platforms, TV2000 has chosen Etere solutions in response to its need for a flexible and integration solution to manage all of the channel’s different processes and devices. Etere’s MERP (Media Enterprise Resources Planning) allows TV2000 to run its media [...]

Elsewhere in the broadcast industry, ChyronHego – an SVG Europe Gold Sponsor – has revealed that Icelandic national broadcaster RUV implemented ChyronHego’s end-to-end BlueNet graphics workflow solution for coverage of the Parliamentary Election that took place on 27 April. Broadcasting live from RUV headquarters at Efstaleiti 1 in Reykjavik, production staff relied exclusively on ChyronHego’s [...]

For broadcast production of the Giro D’Italia, two RAI OB vans are deployed: one to take care of the production process for RAI Sport; the other for the international feed viewed in 173 nations. In fact, as per the four-year agreement between rights’ owner RCS Sport and RAI, two different feeds are created and distributed. [...]

New from Vitec Group company The Camera Store (TCS), the Skquattro Mk2 incorporates four pairs of pneumatic-tyred wheels and four grooved track-wheels. The pneumatic-tyred wheels allow easy transport to and from a delivery vehicle or outside broadcast vehicle. Solid-tyred wheels can be fitted in placed of the pneumatic tyres if required to allow traditional wheeled [...]

ESPN’s global X Games push made its way to Barcelona last week for the first of two key European stops on its 2013 tour, to be followed by Munich at the end of June. As ESPN continues its effort to spread the X Games brand beyond its established US borders, the network is also pushing [...]

It’s arguably the most important sporting event in Italy and one of the largest in the world. SVG Europe is referring, of course, to the epic stage bicycle race, the Giro d’Italia, which takes place every year during May and June. In advance of the 2013 event, Italian state broadcaster RAI and RCS Sport signed [...]

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