Tracab today announced the release of Coach Paint 9.1, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and XML data-driven capabilities to offer coaches and leagues the improved efficiency, richer visuals, and deeper analysis to drive in-depth tactical comprehension of any game or strategy, whether by athletes on the pitch or fans watching at home. The newly redesigned user interface (UI) and updated user experience (UX), introduced with Coach Paint 9 and improved with this release, provides convenient access to powerful automated player tracking and automated content creation tools.

Tracab today announced the release of Coach Paint 9, a major new release of the company's popular sports-agnostic sports analysis and coaching software that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and XML data to drive increased user efficiency as well as a broader — and expanding — feature set. Offering a newly redesigned user interface (UI) and updated user experience (UX), automated player tracking, and automated content creation tools, Coach Paint 9 empowers coaches to generate richer visuals and deeper analysis more quickly and easily.

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung is shining an international spotlight on its home nation’s professional football league by allowing viewers in Germany to watch this year’s K League matches via its Sportworld App.

Mo-Sys Engineering leaders in virtual production and image robotics, and HYPER Studios, leaders in cloud broadcast graphics, have created the first virtual production system with data-driven sports graphics.

Dejero is providing Asia’s leading media and technology services company, Ideal Systems and its live broadcast and production division, ‘Ideal LIVE’, with the robust connectivity required to produce high quality live coverage of major events in the cloud.

The Swiss Football League (SFL) is the latest major sports organization to supercharge referee communications using Riedel Communications' Bolero S. In partnership with production company NEP, Riedel is providing Bolero S — a managed-service offering built around the award-winning Bolero wireless intercom — to drive the SFL's groundbreaking Video Assistant Referee (VAR) program.

Gravity Media, the leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors, is delivering a brand new women’s football offering for Atalanta Media. The partnership with Atalanta, the women’s football company devoted to elevating the sport and its players, expands the global audience for the women’s game and brings together the best action from across Europe. Atalanta Media is supported with seed capital and technology resources by Miami-based investment firm 777 Partners and joins their growing portfolio of media and sports entertainment properties.

ChyronHego is pleased to announce its continued partnership with the Dutch Eredivisie in supplying its world leading sports technologies for the new 2020/21 season. This builds upon two years of successful delivery in providing its TRACAB optical tracking system to the top football league in the Netherlands.

Blackmagic Design today announced that Jacksonville Jaguars Wide Receiver Chris Conley recently shot “Quarantime,” a new short film created during isolation, using a Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro G2 digital film camera shooting in Blackmagic RAW. Conley also edited and graded the film himself using DaVinci Resolve Studio, which he learned at home during football’s hiatus.

ChyronHego's TRACAB team in Sweden has achieved another important milestone in its latest developments towards a semi-automated offside technology, based upon the Emmy® Award-winning TRACAB Gen5 optical tracking system. At a June 22 video conference hosted by ChyronHego and attended by FIFA and its Working Group for Innovation Excellence, the TRACAB team presented a demonstration of powerful new capabilities in TRACAB OCT (Offside Calling Technology) (Story on FIFA Website). Exploiting its AI-driven ball tracking for automated ball pass detection, combined with limb tracking and skeletal modeling derived from video feeds, the technology is showing great promise to support referees in the future to make fast and highly accurate offside calling decisions.

ChyronHego today announced that its Virtual Football system has been certified as a virtual offside line technology by FIFA®, the world governing body for football. A powerful yet easy-to-use system for inserting virtual graphics onto the field, Virtual Football addresses the stringent performance requirements essential to the accurate placement of offside lines as part of the video assistant referee (VAR) workflow in football matches. Referees can rely on the technology to accurately place an offside line and help them make decisions more easily. Broadcasters and stadium entertainment teams can use it to give fans a better understanding of how and why officials make crucial decisions throughout the game.

"ChyronHego has been at the forefront of this technology for over a decade and has made several exciting enhancements to Virtual Football specifically for offside line placement within the VAR workflow," said Niall Hendry, product manager, sports, at ChyronHego. "We have optimized calibration speed and workflow, as well as field and lens parameters, and we've also enabled selection from multiple angles to improve accuracy and streamline the user workflow."

MediaKind, a global media technology leader, has been selected by Síminn, the Icelandic broadcaster, to protect and deliver its live high definition (HD) and ultra-high definition (UHD) broadcasts of football matches from the English Premier League to fans across Iceland.

Argosy, leading international supplier of critical infrastructure products for the broadcast, media and AV industries, has teamed with broadcast engineering and sports stadia facility specialists, TTL Video, to bring the infrastructure of newly promoted clubs into the UK’s top football division this coming season, in line with the very latest broadcast requirements.