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L'Opera Broadcast Video Service and their new OB7, 14-meter truck with 28 4K UHD HDR cameras.

L'Opera Broadcast Video Service was born 35 years ago in Foggia, following the intuition that, in order to survive in the South of Italy and in a difficult working situation, it was necessary to differentiate from the qualitative point of view by creating a strong profile.

SVG Sport Summit part 2

Here is the second part of SVG Sports Summit in Sky Italy, Milan. [Link to part 1] Panel: NAB2019 - What Was Seen and What Was Interesting? (part 2)
Other important points addressed by the Panel were:
"Is the cloud a valid ally? And virtualization? And how to exploit some artificial intelligence applications to enrich sports content with metadata? Are we facing a valid accelerator for television production? Can the cloud be used for automatation using low-cost tools?

"SVG Sport Summit 2019", part one

Also this year, Sky Italia in Milan Santa Giulia headquarters hosted the annual "SVG Sport Summit" 2019 workshop. The event, which took place all day on July 9th, opened by Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe editorial director, was moderated by Manuela Baraschi, head of business partners & program management, Riccardo Botta, production, broadcast & creative director, Rossella De Vivo , head of production & creative hub, and Cristina Villella, head of studios. The various sessions involved a very dense panel of Italian TV services and particularly distinguished broadcast operators in the field of sports production.

Under21 European Football Championships adventure with UEFA, Global Production and 3D Audio.

From 16 to 30 June Italy was the home of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, played in the stadiums of Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Cesena, San Marino, Trieste and Udine, where the final took place on 30th June. The all-important sporting event was entirely produced by UEFA and the technological partner chosen for the production of all the events was the Italian Global Production, which recently joined the international media group Euro Media Group.
21 matches played in two weeks required a considerable technical-productive commitment entrusted to the four technical and artistic crews that took turns on the OBVans in the various stadiums.

International growth strategy. New acquisition of Euro Media Group

On June 17th, 2019 Euro Media Group officially marks the acquisition agreement of Global Production, the Italian company based in Turin specialized in Outside Broadcast television. Euro Media Group is certainly a reference name in the European landscape of radio and television and audiovisual services that officially presents itself for "a unique know-how and world-renowned expertise to manage the entire production chain, from image creation to distribution".

Mezzalama Trophy, April 28th

On April 28th, the Monterosa Skialp marathon, the highest ski mountaineering trial in the Alps, took place at 8 am to last over three and a half hours. The event was followed live by the cameras that captured the spectacular images of history and legend of this live discipline and re-proposed them on Facebook and Youtube live, as well as a summary of the fundamental phases was transmitted by Eurosport and abstracts were repurposed on various abstracts on different websites.

2019 CEV Volleyball Challenge Cup

Monza, the third largest municipality in Lombardy region by number of inhabitants, preceded by Milan and Brescia, saw the men's semi-final and the women's final of the Volleyball Champions League. The venue was the Palazzetto (Sports Arena) of Monza, called Candy Arena, where the television production of the event was carried out by MediaNews, thanks to a mobile OB-Van IP NDI and Dante Audio.
The most obvious feature of this gallery is the complete operation in IP or NDI (Network Device Interface), realized by NewTek devices.

BOB Run in St.Moritz Switzerland

The Bob Run World Cup 2018/19, the thirty-fifth edition of the event organized by the International Bob and Skeleton Federation, began on 7th December 2018 in Sigulda, Latvia. The last round that closes the championship is February 24th 2019 in Calgary, Canada.
The official program is following twenty-four races: sixteen for men and eight for women.

NEP Broadcast Service Italia: group strategy, brand name, and experience.

Founded in May 2018, NEP Broadcast Service Italia benefits in large part from the technical and operational structures of the Florentine company Telerecord, led by Fabio Bertini, which was completely absorbed. Sergio Cecchini, General Manager of the NEP Italia division, passes us the details:

SuperTennis, VR and AR

SuperTennis, the television channel of the Italian Tennis Federation, is visible in the satellite bouquet of SKY Italia on channel 224 and free to air in the national DTT mux and on the number 30 of TVSat, on channel 64; on the streaming web channel it is available on www.supertennis.tv. The tv production studies in Rome, from which the transmissions are aired, are often employing virtual reality and augmented reality, but, contrary to what one might think, it is not just a matter of show.

European Challenge Rugby Cup NEP

The event is called "ERCC, European Rugby Challenge Cup" and two of the 10 matches in January involve Grenoble, precisely on 18th January and the second Parma on 19th, opening to the subsequent quarter-finals and the final. This championship is composed of a series of European competitions and from October up to today 6 were held in Italy.
The international tv service commissioned by customer DAZN is NEP Group Italy that engages the Mobile Unit 24 in Grenoble and Unit 18 in Parma.

High Dynamic Range 4K UHD gets full test run at the Alpine Ski World Cup in Italy

At the mid-December FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events in Val Gardena and Alta Badia, the International Ski Federation along with producer Infront and OB provider Global Production tested 4K UHD with the HLG BT2020 HDR colour space. The signal produced in Italy was not distributed in UHD HDR but its conversion to HD SDR went to all the world's largest broadcasters and the event was designed as a real-world test to get ready for a forthcoming 4K TV airing.

Sky Italia revamps football studios...

... to enable richer storytelling and viewer engagement. To celebrate the return of UEFA Champions League and the new football season, Sky Sport Italia undertook an extensive refresh of its on-air sports studios to enable increased viewer engagement.
Rossella de Vivo, director of the Production & Creative Hub at Sky Sport, underlined some features of

European Athletics Championship 2018: Gino Alberico (RAI CRITS) at the SMPTE X seminar.

The technologies on which we can operate tomorrow. Italian broadcaster Mediaset hosted, at the end of September and in its Camana hall of the TV Production Center, the 10th edition of the SMPTE "Emerging Technology" Seminar.
The SMPTE, as well as being a regulatory body, is the association that deals with training for the dissemination of the technical culture of the media and it is in this context that fully inserted this Seminar with the aim of examining the continuous technological evolution of the broadcast and new media industry, in particular "broadband" telecommunications.

French Drift and Livesat

The Drift is a sports car discipline in which the competitors do not have to prove to be faster than the adversaries, but more skilled in controlling the vehicle in the loss of adherence of the rear axle, in the drift, but respecting certain rules. What determines the ranking of the competitor is the vote expressed by the jury, composed of a group of experts in the field that gives an opinion on each characteristic of the performance.

"The big brother"! The new NVP OB6.

Double production, remotization and robotization in 4K HDR. On the market since 2007, and headquartered in Sicily, is a company specialized in international TV production.
They are dedicated to major television events, sports, film, TV programs of all kinds, fiction, sports, concerts and shows.
The NVP owns 4 ob vans, of which two are the most recent mobile vehicles, OB4 (active for 18 months on very high level production) and OB6, brand new, close to launch, scheduled for early September.

Deltatre and the evolution of media: convergence between TV and online

Deltatre is considered a global leader for tv production especially concerning the sport business: digital, mobile, social, broadcast, results, content and professional services. With offices in Turin, London, Manchester, Geneva, Paris, Munich, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney, Deltatre has over 30 years' experience at the highest level of international sports.
We met Roberto Sciarretta, Deltatre Business Development Director, and asked him details on the main trends on tv graphics, remote production, IP workflow, and what they call "convergence".

SKY SVG Summit, June 2018 Milan

Sky Italia and Sports Video Group chose June 19th to host the "Sport Innovation Summit" at the Sky TV production center in Milan, Santa Giulia. In the presence of about eighty representatives of the major Italian television production services, providers, broadcasters, specialists and research centers, there was a discussion on subjects of great interest from 2 to 6 pm.
Among these, not in order: "the new SkyQ and Multi Platform by SKY" by Massimo Bertolotti (Head of Engineering and Innovation), the "Ocean Rescue" project by Cristina Fenzi, a presentation of "Delta Tre" by Roberto Sciaretta, the "Agile Software Lab" by Carlo Romagnoli and themes even closer to the interests of SVG and on which we focus on here, as "the new study by SKY TG 24 Milan and Rome" by Riccardo Botta (Production Broadcast & Creative Director), "The remote production linked to F1" by Manuela
raschi (Head of Sport production & Operations), "the 4K in sport" by Massimo Bertolotti.

ROMA-JUVENTUS: HOST AND INTEGRATION in a single OBVAN

"We made the HD production of the ROME / JUVENTUS match with our new ObVan Dolphin 7.0, using 14 HD cameras, 2 SuperSlowmotion 3x cameras and 1 UltraEmotion camera. Our vehicle was used for the Host production of the game and also for Sky integration thanks to the second internal gallery, with independent audio and video."
This is what the Cinevideo technical manager, Andrea Buonomo, he also adds some other details:
"The new OB-Van UHD-HDR by Cinevideo is called "Dolphin" and is the seventh of our fleet based in Pescara."

Serie B 4K HDR, Empoli-Venice

A few weeks ago, SKY Italia commissioned Telerecord, a well-known Florentine TV production service, a "test match" in 4K HDR for Italian Serie B match, Empoli Venezia. The match was held at Empoli and the event is beyond the "typical" production that is usually realized in HD.
The test was carried out in HDR in view of future broadcasts in the next season.
The match was broadcast on Sky Sports in HD and those who already own the latest SkyQ decoder could watch the game in 4K HDR.