Recent Posts by George Bevir
By George Bevir | Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 8:00 am
LIV Golf Chief Media Officer Will Staeger likens the new golf tournament’s efforts to freshen up coverage of the sport to the approach adopted by UFC or WWE. “We are reinventing the coverage style and aspiring to forge a new way of covering golf,” he tells SVG Europe. “Our goal is to balance the concerns […]
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By George Bevir | Friday, May 27, 2022 - 10:48 am
The teams responsible for producing coverage of the Champions League Final are getting used to some tight turnarounds. For the past three years, the location of the final has changed at short notice, due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and this year in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The decision to stage […]
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By George Bevir | Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 7:10 am
Senior execs from Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL), DAZN, the NBA, and TikTok spoke of the best approaches and priorities for developing and implementing new technology during last week’s SportsInnovation 2022 event, with the DFL’s Andreas Heyden setting out his rules for implementing new tech.
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By George Bevir | Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 7:00 am
A two-way Spidercam and a remotely operated camera were among the new tools for covering football matches demonstrated at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf last week during an event hosted by the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL). The centerpiece of the two-day SportsInnovation 2022 event was the ‘Innovation Games’, where technology was demonstrated in a live […]
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By George Bevir | Monday, May 16, 2022 - 7:05 am
The first stage of the new eSkootr Championship (eSC) took place in London on Saturday, May 14, which is a fitting location given that Co-Founder Khalil Beschir came up with the concept while in the city. That idea has now evolved to a six-stage championship, with races in London, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and the […]
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By George Bevir | Tuesday, May 3, 2022 - 6:30 am
For the past two years, an important element of the World Snooker Championship has been largely absent: fans. Spectators were almost completely shut out in 2020, with just 300 allowed to watch the last two days of action and in 2021, the return of spectators was staggered as the tournament progressed. This year, there has […]
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By George Bevir | Sunday, April 24, 2022 - 10:21 am
With NAB about to open its doors for the first time since 2019, the industry will have a chance to gather and swap notes on the changes to the way content is now captured. And with many parts of the world now emerging from restrictions that were imposed during the pandemic, it will also provide […]
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By George Bevir | Monday, April 11, 2022 - 12:31 pm
BT Sport has delivered the UK’s first live 8K broadcast of a top-tier sporting event into the home, teaming up with a host of partners to continue its ongoing interest in 8K. The broadcaster aired the Saracens v Bristol Bears Gallagher Premiership Rugby match, which took place on 26 March, live in 8K into selected […]
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By George Bevir | Monday, April 11, 2022 - 9:44 am
Gravity Media has teamed up with with Dubai’s 7 Production to provide outside broadcast facilities for international rights and non-rights holders for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in November.
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By George Bevir | Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - 11:20 am
EMG Chief Executive Shaun Gregory has outlined his vision for the broadcast services group, with further investment in IP, studios and remote production to support the ultimate aim of creating “the Amazon of the OB business.”
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