Vizrt, The Switch Renew With SVG

The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Vizrt and The Switch have renewed their premier sponsorships. Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, video playout, studio automation, sports analysis, journalist story tools, and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry. The Switch is a provider of customer-controlled video switching services.

Vizrt’s solutions include interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather, social media, video editing, compositing, and multiplatform VOD and live playout tools. Vizrt has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide including CNN, CBS, Fox, BBC, BSkyB, Sky Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, Al Jazeera, NDR, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, NHK and the list keeps growing. Vizrt has nearly 600 employees and operates in 40 offices worldwide. Vizrt is a privately owned company by Nordic Capital Fund VIII.

For more information, visit www.vizrt.com.

The Switch provides advanced switching, local and long distance terrestrial transport services. Last summer, The Switch expanded its Inter-City On Demand “ICOD” Video and Data network to over 200 points of presence across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, more than doubling the size of its network in less than a year. The Switch’s customers include domestic and international television networks, common carriers, local broadcast stations, and producers and distributors of sports, entertainment, news, financial and public service television programming.

To learn more about the company’s offerings, visit their website at www.theswitch.tv.