By SVG Staff | Friday, June 8, 2018 - 2:00 am
Ericsson and Russian service provider MTS have teamed up to provide a superior mobile broadband experience for hundreds of thousands of football fans attending the upcoming global soccer tournament in Russia, through Europe’s largest deployment of Massive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) to date.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 9:44 am
FIFA Digital today detailed some of the offerings it will be rolling out for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia as it looks to create content and experiences that will rope in soccer fans around the globe and spur on shares and likes in the social-media landscape.
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Monday, June 4, 2018 - 2:49 pm
With the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup just days away, Fox Sports unveiled some of its specific plans on the digital side for its coverage of the tournament. Among the video highlights, a bevy of bonus feeds during live matches and an interactive Highlight Machine promise to make this World Cup as interactive […]
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By SVG Staff | Monday, June 4, 2018 - 1:32 pm
CenturyLink will transmit international distribution and unilateral feeds in support of this summer’s global soccer championship to top networks in the U.S. and Latin America starting June 14. The networks — including Fox in the U.S., TV Azteca in Mexico, and RCN and Caracol in Colombia — will use CenturyLink’s high quality, broadcast-based Vyvx Solutions […]
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By SVG Staff | Monday, June 4, 2018 - 9:00 am
Beginning with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Fox Sports and IBM are launching a AI collaboration across multiple Fox Sports properties and programming. Fox Sports is tapping IBM Watson Media’s specialized AI video technology and IBM iX’s expertise in designing user experiences to streamline production workflows to quickly classify, edit and access match highlights in […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, June 1, 2018 - 9:33 am
The BBC is to stream dozens of World Cup matches live in 4K resolution and high dynamic range colour (HDR) to UK-based audiences in June and July.
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By SVG Staff | Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:56 am
TVU Networks will provide rental packages and on-the-ground technical support throughout this summers’ international football tournament in all 12 Russian cities that will be hosting matches. The tournament will commence next month, with over 150 pieces of TVU Networks equipment and local SIM Cards already lined up to enable broadcasters to successfully deliver matches and […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Friday, May 25, 2018 - 10:08 am
Fox Sports has enlisted the help of Aspera and Telestream to enable it to remotely produce live content plus highlights and other packages of the World Cup in Russia, with its team of editors in its Los Angeles-based headquarters.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, May 25, 2018 - 3:47 am
For the duration of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, the Hyundai Motorstudio on New Arbat Avenue in Moscow will host a major exhibition staged by the FIFA World Football Museum. Presented by FIFA Partner Hyundai, The History Makers will open on 9 June, five days before the tournament kicks off, and will run until 20 July, […]
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By Will Strauss, Contributing Editor | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 10:01 am
Fox Sports has enlisted the help of Aspera and Telestream to enable it to remotely produce live content plus highlights and other packages during the World Cup in Russia, making use of a team of editors based in its Los Angeles headquarters.
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By SVG Staff | Friday, May 18, 2018 - 10:42 am
FOX Sports will broadcast its 2018 FIFA World Cup TV and digital studio shows from this set in Moscow’s Red Square. Four shows – FIFA WORLD CUP TODAY, FIFA WORLD CUP LIVE, FIFA WORLD CUP TONIGHT, and FIFA WORLD CUP NOW – will run during the tournament, which airs live on FOX and FS1 from June […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Friday, May 18, 2018 - 10:35 am
DAZN has sub-licenced the highlights for Germany from sports rights agency SportA with clips from all 64 2018 FIFA World Cup games available on the platform as soon as 45 minutes after the final whistle. The highlights will be presented in DAZN’s house style, similar to the Bundesliga highlights show produced by DAZN for the […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, May 18, 2018 - 10:33 am
Aldea Solutions will be offering extended resources at Russia 2018 this summer in addition to its exclusive stand-up position in a Moscow terrace. Live standups and inject point services will be provided from each of the 12 stadiums in 11 cities.
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By Will Strauss, Contributing Editor | Monday, May 14, 2018 - 7:20 am
Israeli Public Broadcasting Corp. (IPBC) will use a 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) playout solution designed by MX1 to deliver live coverage from stadiums in Russia during the FIFA World Cup. Fully redundant and automated, MX1’s solution encompasses playout, advanced graphics, encoding, and channel delivery services in 4K HDR, and will be fully managed 24/7 […]
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By Will Strauss, Contributing Editor | Monday, May 14, 2018 - 5:59 am
Swisscom will use Rohde & Schwarz encoding technology to help it to provide Ultra High Definition (UHD) coverage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Working with Swiss public broadcaster SRG, the rights holder in Switzerland, Swissom will deliver UHD and HDR coverage of the World Cup via the SRF, RTS and RSI channels over […]
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