The business of sports tech, in brief.
It’s the most-watched single-day sports event on the planet: the FIFA World Cup Final. In 2022, an estimated 1.5 billion global viewers watched Argentina defeat France on penalties to hoist
The fifteenth season of The Voice – La plus belle voix on TF1 used four Solid State Logic Live L550 Plus mixing consoles — two for broadcast, one at FOH,
M6 France, one of the largest private national French TV channels, has the rights to a World Cup for the first time in its nearly 40-year history. For Virgil Beljambe,
The M6 Group will broadcast FIFA World Cup 2026 matches live and in Ultra High Definition via Fransat, Eutelsat’s free-to-air DTH satellite platform for French DTT channels. Coverage runs from
Bitmovin and Akamai have announced a collaboration with NRJ Group, a French multimedia company, to migrate its mobile and web streaming services to Akamai Adaptive Media Player 2 (AMP2). NRJ
Spalk, a cloud-based multilingual commentary and production platform, has announced three new partnerships: Ligue 1 (English and Portuguese highlights), Euroleague (French, Serbian, and Greek commentary), and LNB (French commentary). The
Swiss broadcaster Canal Alpha has deployed Harmonic’s award-winning, software-based XOS Advanced Media Processor to modernize playout operations across cantons in French-speaking Switzerland. Harnessing AI-powered compression, the XOS media processor enables
Premier League champions Arsenal will take on holders Paris Saint-Germain in the 2026 UEFA Champions League Final on Saturday (30 May) at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary. UEFA has
Brothers John and Patrick McEnroe will host two hours of whiparound coverage from Roland-Garros during the French Open’s first six days, TNT Sports is set to announce. The Mac Zone will go live on truTV around 9 a.m. ET, with the first hour each day simulcast to YouTube, as more sports broadcasters…
Imagine Communications has announced that France Télévisions is the first broadcaster to deploy the SNP-XS, the latest addition to Imagine’s Selenio Network Processor (SNP) lineup. France Télévisions ordered 60 units
Harmonic has announced that TDF, a broadcast infrastructure operator in France, has deployed Harmonic’s XOS Advanced Media Processor and ProStream X Video Stream Processor on its digital terrestrial television (DTT)
The 2026 Guinness Men’s Six Nations Rugby Championship ran from Feb. 7 to March 14 and featured England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales in a tighter, five-week schedule. The
With the Olympic Flag officially handed over to the organisers of the next Winter Games and the baton passed from Milano Cortina 2026 to French Alps 2030, the International Olympic
One of the big technology initiatives undertaken by OBS for the 2024 Paris Olympics was the launch of its Virtual OB Van (VOB) project: the traditional production truck replaced with
France Télévisions has successfully launched France 2 UHD featuring Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technologies for the broadcast of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026, marking a significant milestone in
For anyone in the sports-production industry, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing the reality of a production match the hopes for that production. For the NBC Olympics staffers at
Building on successful demonstrations during the Paris Olympics 2024, Italian public service broadcaster Rai and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are conducting new 5G Broadcast trials during the Milano Cortina
With the 25th edition of the Winter Olympics – Milano Cortina 2026 – set to take place between February 6 and 22, 2026, France Télévisions is getting ready to shred
France Télévisions is bringing the Winter Olympics to French viewers through the means of teleportation. The French national broadcaster is using virtual green screen technology to pull presenters and athletes
2025 signaled a changing of the guard at the French Open with the entrance of a new broadcaster: TNT Sports. In the first of Warner Bros. Discovery’s 10-year media-rights deal,
