20
Apr
UFC, ‘the fastest growing sport in the world’ continues to break into new territories, coming to Sweden and the Ericsson Globe arena for the first time in UFC history: “Sweden has been on our radar for a long time and on April 14, we’re excited to finally bring the UFC to Stockholm,” UFC President Dana White announced.
Strategic Television hold the contract for the worldwide production rights for UFC broadcast and worked in partnership with Mediatec Broadcast when transmitting from the Globe Arena.
Mediatec Broadcast delivered both satellite and fibre connectivity for all four transmission paths, all in HD and with full redundancy for the event. The complicated set-up in the arena was quickly achieved thanks to Mediatec’s large network of optical connections and priceless local knowledge of the facilities
Posted in Fibre, Hd, Broadcast.
3
Apr
The latest member in Mediatec’s fleet of state of the art OB trailers is called HD12 and is a development of the well proven “Streamline” design of HD10 & HD11. This time with an even larger production area, giving room for more operators and a larger production setup.
HD12 arrived before schedule from our systems integrator “Broadcast Solution” in Germany and after a couple of days preparation in the Mediatec garage it went right in to a hectic production period doing the hockey play offs in Sweden.
Unit Manager Anders Wikström says “-We have had a smooth start up process with almost no problems at all. The truck has performed exactly as planned with all the additional benefits we wanted, it has great production capacity with a minimum of setup time giving more time to focus on the client.”
To find out more about our new unit read here: Product page or Product sheet
Posted in Hd, Hd12, Broadcast, New trailer.
5
Apr
Still on a high from the “Vasaloppet” production, Mediatec sped into their next skiing adventure. This year’s final of the “Ski Classics”, was held at Norefjell in Norway, not far from Oslo, where the World Skiing Championships finished a couple of weeks ago. The winner from Vasaloppet, Jörgen Brink, also attended Norefjell, to test his stamina in an extremely tough competition, with a course stretching 65km of mountainous landscape.
Mediatec worked with IEC, supplying the host feed with our flagship truck HD1, sixteen cameras are hooked up to the unit. In addition, Mediatec also provided two uplinks, with three additional cameras on each site.
“Due to the terrain and lack of local infrastructure, it was necessary to use uplinks to distribute the signals from distant parts of the track”, said Mediatec’s production coordinator Axel Engström, who was also responsible for co-coordinating three snowmobiles with wireless cameras, a helicopter and a relaying airplane. Axel was part of a fortyeight men team provided by Mediatec to bring this spectacular race to television audiences across the world.
As well as the Ski Classics, Mediatec accomplished other productions in the same weekend, covering events such as Football, Handball, Ice hockey, Basketball, a concert and a corporate event. Another busy weekend down and dusted!
Posted in Hd, Hd1, Outside broadcast, Broadcast.
17
Mar
In association with SIS LIVE, Europes largest HD and SD Outside broadcast and satellite uplink provider, Mediatec was thrilled to supply broadcast equipment to the Barclays Premier League match between Sunderland and Tottenham on February 12th 2011. Harry Redknapp’s boys maintained the pressure on their rivals in the hunt for Champions League football with a 2-1 win at the Stadium of Light.
Mediatec delivered a 24-camera production unit controlled by its HD1 broadcast trailer, one of the most sophisticated OB-units in Europe. Having also been utilised at the Olympics games, the unit required an eight-strong team of Mediatec technicians to operate it.
Mediatec also supported the Spanish broadcasting association FORTA, in the UEFA Champions League match between Arsenal and Barcelona, A 7-camera production unit, with 4-feeds for different Spanish TV-channels were supplied. Solutions for four commentator’s positions were also delivered.
Posted in Hd, Hd1, Outside broadcast, Broadcast.
24
Jan
During 18 days in January the tournament is played at 8 locations in Sweden: Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping, Göteborg, Malmö, Kristianstad, Lund and Skövde.
Swedish TV4, who is the host broadcaster of the World Championship, has appointed Mediatec Broadcast as their provider of technical facilities, project management and all crew needed for the productions.
98 matches are played, 94 of them are produced in HD.
Mediatec Broadcast also supplies equipment and technical personnel for the TV4 studio productions on site in Göteborg and Malmö.
Mediatec is also responsible for all bookings of the unilateral and commentary services via the booking site hostbroadcaster.org on behalf of the rights holder UFA Sports.
Mediatec Broadcast is proud to be a part of the close cooperation between TV4 and UFA Sports.
Posted in Hd, Broadcast, High definition, Studio production.
