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Prime Video and Rogers Communications have announced a 12-year agreement for Prime Video in Canada to exclusively broadcast Wednesday night regular-season national NHL games in English and French, beginning with
As Australia celebrated beating England in the final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup earlier this month, it was already clear that the tournament had broken new ground for
Gravity Media has added a scalable production vehicle to its UK fleet of outside broadcast (OB) trucks. Making its debut at the 2026 World Matchplay in Blackpool as part of Sky Sports’
Every medal and every event of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games is being delivered to viewers by Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) TNT Sports and HBO Max brands for the first
2026 marked the latest edition of the French Open, which was also production company Whisper’s second year as host broadcaster. As the only Grand Slam venue on clay, Roland-Garros stands
Wearable tech returns to the coverage, and a brand-new mobile unit is rolled out for the 2026 edition The 21-stage Tour de France is nearing its conclusion. The 113th edition
BBC head of Future World Design, Manon Dave, and BBC Future World Design principal product manager Laura Harrison spoke with SVG Europe about the origins and potential evolution of Signals,
Riedel’s RefCam Live was used for the first time at an international soccer match during a friendly between the German men’s national team and Ghana in Stuttgart. Combined with Riedel’s
Standing inside HQ3 at MediaCity Studios during the FIFA World Cup 2026, it quickly became apparent that BBC Sport had reached another milestone in its virtual production journey. On one
Whisper has been appointed by the BBC to deliver its live broadcast and digital coverage of the 2026 season of The Hundred. Marking the first time Whisper has worked with
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) and beIN Media Group have announced a five-year extension of their exclusive broadcasting agreement for Roland-Garros across 10 Asian markets, covering the 2027 through 2031
The Rest Is Football, hosted by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards, will return to Netflix for the 2026/27 Premier League and Champions League season, with new episodes beginning
Telemundo has announced it has acquired from UC3 exclusive U.S. Spanish-language rights to all UEFA men’s club competitions for three seasons beginning with the 2027/28 season. The deal covers the
Solid State Logic has announced the appointment of Algam EKO as its distributor for SSL large format consoles in Italy, covering the Live, Broadcast, and Studio console ranges. Algam EKO,
BBC Sport has appointed independent production partner Whisper to deliver its live broadcast and digital coverage of the 2026 season of The Hundred. The partnership marks the first time the production company has worked with the broadcaster on the cricket tournament, expanding Whisper’s…
Among other tweaks to coverage, the broadcaster added announce positions in the booth and in the stands on multiple courts Wimbledon 2026 will be remembered for the heat as well
The 2026 FIFA World Cup closed out on yet another high note, as nearly 40 million viewers tuned in for the Spain-Argentina final on Fox Sports. According to Nielsen Big Data + Panel estimates, Fox’s coverage of Spain’s 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina averaged 38.94 million viewers, making it…
The directors of three different parts of the operation oversaw a London-based centralized hub supplying content throughout the tournament Just how important is non-live content for an event like the
World Snooker Tour (WST) has extended its domestic broadcast rights agreement with TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland until the end of the 2030-2031 season. Under the terms of the multi-year extension, the broadcaster has secured the rights to show more events on the WST than any other platform. This…
Goalhanger has agreed a two-year contract extension with Netflix to broadcast its hit sports show and podcast, ‘The Rest Is Football’. The agreement secures the future of the show, hosted by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards, on the streaming platform through to the UEFA Euro 2028…
