Roland Garros

HBS smashes immersive experience with French Open coverage

The collaboration built on innovations introduced over the previous three tournaments, and included referee cams for the first time

Media Delivery

TDF, France Télévisions trial UHD on DTT, 5G Broadcast at Roland Garros

TDF has obtained permission from France's broadcast regulator ARCOM to broadcast from the Eiffel Tower and is working with Ateme, Qualcomm and Rohde &...

Media Management

France Télévisions broadcasts Roland Garros in Ultra HD

The signal is being encoded on site and routed by Globecast to the France Télévisions hub, decoded by BBright and then made available in...

IP Migration

The Switch enables 100 per cent IP-based production environment for French Open

The all-IP media workflow meant the company could separately transport fully uncompressed video, audio and data from 17 courts at Roland Garros to Los...

Business

Discovery nets French Open for another five years

In 2021, Eurosport has reported significant year-on-year growth in its audience watching via digital platforms during the first eight days of the Grand Slam...

Production & Post

Infosys serves up AI highlights at French Open

Solution enables broadcasters to resize videos with AI and produce ready-to-publish clips for different social platforms that require specific aspect ratios

Audio

European broadcaster employs innovative AutoMix solution at Roland Garros

Enables broadcasters to combine multiple audio signals and automatically create a single output.

Media Management

Harmonic helps the viewer take control of France Televisions French Open coverage

Harmonic's Thierry Fautier tells TVBEurope about the company's involvement in a demonstration which aims to let viewers choose which camera angle they want to...

Production & Post

French Tennis Foundation takes Roland Garros production in-house

HBS France Production appointed host broadcaster from 2021

Technology

NEC successfully trials 8K over 5G at French Open

France Télévisions employed NEC's VC-8900 8K material transmission encoder

TVBEverywhere

Eurosport reports 31 per cent rise in streaming during French Open

Broadcaster also saw significant rise in linear audience

Content

France Télévisions to provide Roland-Garros UHD coverage

French PSB is providing free access to a 100% UHD event channel broadcast 24 hours a day on DTT and satellite TV

Content

Eurosport to broadcast French Open in UHD for the first time

UHD channel will be available in France, Germany, Spain and the UK

TVBEverywhere

Eurosport serves VR for Roland Garros

Eurosport has launched its Eurosport Virtual Reality (VR) app ahead of this year’s Roland Garros. The app will allow fans to access “new and...

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Production & Post

Riedel and VIDELIO-Events + Utram support French Open at Roland-Garros

VIDELIO-Events + Utram and Riedel Communications' MediorNet real-time media network helped bring the action from Roland-Garros tennis tournament to large-screen displays across courts at...

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Production & Post

French Open relies on Ross Video and ATEME

For coverage of this year’s French Open at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Eurosport has been taking advantage of XPression’s 3D and augmented...

Production & Post

Gearhouse Broadcast serves French Open

Gearhouse Broadcast has been contracted by sports production companies Input Media, and Japanese satellite and pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW to provide onsite broadcast facilities for...

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