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Get your vuvuzelas ready: Fox Sports will provide coverage of at least two upcoming FIFA World Cup matches in 2022 and 2023. New York-based media conglomerate Fox Corp., whose Century [...]

The blockade of Qatar has turned the World Cup into a geopolitical feud ARABS have little to cheer in this year's World Cup. The four teams from the region lost [...]

This article engages with the 'canonical' work of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz (1992) in reexamining aspects of the phenomenology of the media event, especially those of a global sporting nature. It considers a range of questions of 'gain' and 'loss' in 'being there' and of television-inspired changes to the experience of in-person attendance. Innovations in the viewing possibilities at global media events are considered in relation to forms of sociality during competitions such as the Olympic Games and the soccer World Cup. The discussion also notes the existence of significant variations in the 'script forms' of apparently similar media event types. Finally, it identifies interacting areas of focus important for an effective analysis of the dialectics of remote and proximate experience of global media events like the recent Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

The FIFA World Cup was hosted by South Africa in Johannesburg and the long-term benefit for South African tourism could be considerable. International sporting events have given businesses a global opportunity to raise their profile such that FIFA expects to gain from the event through commercial deals. Insights on the preparation for these events are also given.

The 2006 FIFA world Cup in Germany will be broadcasted to more than 30 Asian territories. At press time, almost 20 countries in Asia are covered by new media licenses--and [...]

Globo's not so little piece of the ratings Brazil's biggest media firm is flourishing with an old-fashioned business model WHEN the football World Cup begins on June 12th in Brazil, [...]

THE U.S. won't have a team in the hunt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, but the nation's TV programmers and distributors will have an active role and [...]

Byline: Adrian Pennington For its World Cup coverage, Danish broadcaster TV 2|Danmark used a master control room system built by Danmon Systems Group (DSG). The system was fully tested in [...]

Byline: Adrian Pennington Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT) provided Nucomm and RF Central brand wireless receiver and transmitter systems as emergency backups in Johannesburg during the World Cup. On behalf of [...]

Doremi Cinema's digital cinema servers were used to play back Sensio's live, 3-D broadcasts of World Cup soccer matches around the world. According to the companies, the 2010 World Cup [...]

Byline: Adrian Pennington Working at the Technicolor playout facility in Saint-Cloud, France, Technicolor handled live, 3-D program reception and broadcast as well as insertion of additional 3-D content and commentary [...]

Spanish broadcast service provider Overon relied on Newtec Azimuth modulators to make efficient use of the allocated bandwidth and satisfy customer demand to provide more TV feeds during the final [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Looking like it will break its 2009 record of approximately 2 billion minutes streamed over the Internet via mobile platforms, MobiTV has streamed more than 88 million [...]

Fox Sports teamed up Global Television and Panavision to bring the first live 3-D sporting event to Australian viewers. The live production of the soccer match between Australia and New [...]

Telemedia, a satellite uplink service provider in South Africa, has chosen Nevion (formerly Network/VPG) to provide HD connectivity to SuperSport studios during the World Cup 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa, [...]

Supermarkets are cashing in on stay-at-home consumers' match-time munchies. The guarantee of a good seat and an unobstructed view of the screen are just two of the reasons that consumers [...]

TalkSPORT's Adam Bullock and ITV's Mark Trinder on the wide range of opportunities they're providing viewers and advertisers this summer. ADAM BULLOCK - MANAGING DIRECTOR, UTV PITCH - What programming [...]

Harris is working with South Africa's Concilium Technologies to provide on-site broadcasters with local service and support during the World Cup tournament in South Africa via several different levels of [...]

UK-based transmission provider Arqiva is supplying satellite newsgathering (SNG) equipment for coverage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa to a variety of broadcasters, including ESPN in the United [...]

3-D processing technology from Sensio technologies will be used by international host broadcaster HBS inside encoders made by International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) at various venues during the World Cup to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli When South Korea plays Greece this weekend in its World Cup soccer opener in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, many fans will follow a live broadcast of the [...]

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has selected Riedel Communications' Artist digital matrix intercom technology for its four new HD OB vans to be used at the FIFA World Cup. [...]

Byline: ANDREW HAMPP Advertisers got what they wanted in 2007: They started paying for ads based on ratings for commercial breaks, not the shows the ad interrupted. But they still [...]

Byline: Adrian Pennington Element Technica is in a prime position to supply rigs for the Host Broadcast Services (HBS) production of select World Cup matches in 3-D. The Los Angeles-based [...]