ICYMI – All the Content From Sports OTT Forum 2020 and the Sports TV Awards

Sports OTT Forum – Opening remarks
In case you missed any of the Sports OTT Forum, we have pulled all of the content together in one place for you to enjoy. To open proceedings, we hear from Alessandro Reitano, Sky Germany’s Director of Sports Production and the chair of the SVG Europe advisory board, on the state of the OTT sports market, and from the Title Sponsor Panasonic who offers up a short use case featuring the new Kairos live video processing platform.

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Sports OTT Forum: What’s on your mind, Facebook? Q&A with Anna Chanduvi
By Will Strauss, Editor
In what was originally a live online Q&A, Anna Chanduvi, Sports Media Partnerships at Facebook, takes a look at how sports broadcasters and leagues and federations can use, and work with, Facebook both during the lockdown and beyond. The session…
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Sports OTT Forum: Eleven Sports’ Anouk Mertens discusses lockdown strategies and the future of OTT
By Will Strauss, Editor
With the coronavirus impacting on every part of the OTT business, Eleven Sports has had to take a very different approach to its output. In this interview, chief operating officer Anouk Mertens discusses how and why Eleven has been focussing…
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Sports OTT Forum: Wheels of Glory – Racing OTT with World Rally
By Heather McLean, SVG Europe
World Rally Championship (WRC) holds rally events globally every year where teams compete to win the coveted title of champion driver. Each rally sees drivers tackling extreme conditions all around the world, in remote locations, with WRC+ All Live, a…
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Sports OTT Forum: Going OTT on the Women’s Game – Interview with the FA’s Kelly Simmons
By Heather McLean, Editor
The Women’s World Cup 2019 in France was a key moment in the growth of the women’s game. Following on from that success, women’s football has now reached a tipping point when it comes to both viewership and media interest…
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Sports OTT Forum: Olympic Channel’s Mark Parkman on COVID-19, trying new things and going beyond lockdown
By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director
In conversation with SVG editorial director Ken Kerschbaumer, Olympic Channel general manager Mark Parkman discusses how his team responded to the coronavirus pandemic, tried out some new things, and made the most of remote production. The conversation then looks at…
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Sports OTT Forum: Taking OTT forward into a post-lockdown world
By Heather McLean, Editor
The use of OTT has come into its own since COVID-19 locked down the world and live sport ceased. In this video panel discussion we look at how the enthusiastic application of OTT has highlighted its challenges and helped its…
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Sports TV Awards
Sports TV Awards: Watch the ceremony
By Will Strauss, Editor
SVG Europe presented its Sports TV Awards 2020 on Wednesday 27 May in an ‘as live’ ceremony on Youtube. You can now watch a re-run of the ceremony right here on the SVG Europe website. The Sports TV Awards 2020…
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