Astucemedia, leaders in bridging the gap between broadcast graphics, creative design and data integration, demonstrated its new Interactive and AR Football Module at IBC last week in Amsterdam as part of Vizrts Big AR Show.

INSIGHT TV, the worlds largest producer and broadcaster of adventure travel and extreme sports genres in true, unscripted 4K UHD, has commissioned a major new football reality show Lost in Europe, starring global social influencers the F2 Freestylers. With over five and a half million YouTube subscribers (F2 Freestylers Ultimate Soccer Skills Channel) and more than four million Instagram followers (thef2), the F2 Freestylers, made up of British football super stars Billy Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch, are huge social media celebrities. The show, which will launch in 4K UHD on INSIGHT TV in October 2017, is being produced by Renowned Films. INSIGHT

From 14th January to 5th February, Globecast,  ensured the successful international coverage of the 31st Total African Cup of Nations 2017 from Gabon. Globecast provided a full HD contribution and distribution service for African, European and Asian broadcasters as well as an IP platform. 

Blackmagic Design today announced that Manchester City Football Club has integrated a solution featuring Blackmagic Design infrastructure products to handle all aspects of video production across its Academy Stadium, which is located at its elite training and youth development facility, the City Football Academy.

Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, and its German solution partner LOGIC media solutions GmbH, have teamed up with PLAZAMEDIA, a Germany-based content solution provider and one of the leading producers of sports TV in the German-speaking area, to migrate elements of its high profile football coverage to an IP production set-up using Nevion IP Media Core equipment and VideoIPath management system.

Major broadcasters around the world have once again taken advantage of the power and flexibility of LiveUs technology to provide a 360 degree viewer experience of the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. This includes both ITV Sport and beIN Sport, the latter via production company Medialuso, part of the Spanish Mediapro Group, who used units from across the companys product portfolio to bring live images to their viewers from France.

Vimond today announced that it had been selected by Australias second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, to build and deliver the technical infrastructure - including content ingestion, preparation and distribution - which will enable Optus customers to view English Premier League (EPL) football games over the coming three seasons.