Sky’s new production and broadcasting centre "Sky Sport HQ", with a built on a total area of 4,600 qm at the Unterföhring media site in Germany, has one of the most modern and largest broadcast IT infrastructures for live sports in Europe. It allows the broadcaster to produce all sports content in-house and to distribute it via a wide variety of distribution channels – such as linear TV, OTT services and via web and social media portals.
Besides fully fitting out two live studios, interconnected control rooms, various editing suites, ten dedicated voice-over booths and 16 additional voice-over stations with audio-visual equipment, the infrastructure also has eight production control rooms (PCRs) and an occasional channel playout room (OCPCR) with an interconnected audio control room (ACR) as well as two TX control rooms for controlling the four 24/7 main channels and ten occasional channels. Apart from ingest – with up to 60 EVS recording channels and the construction of an 84 sqm studio LED wall for analyses, graphics and game scenes – the new system landscape also has numerous technological innovations which, in this shape and size, are so far unique in Sky’s live sports production. Features related to the IP backbone, the studio and graphic workflow for augmented reality and coverage during conference productions mark a new era in live production at Sky Deutschland.
Integrated Solutions (Extract) | Manufacturer / Supplier |
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Touch user interface for studio automation Viz Mosart | Vizrt |
Real-time graphic application Viz Pilot | Vizrt |
Control room solution Viz Opus | Vizrt |
Graphic systems Libero, Arena and Multichannel for analysis and on-air integration of graphic elements | Vizrt |
Live production servers EVS XT & XS with up to 60 ingest channels and 76 live signals | EVS |
Conference area with twelve fully equipped production islands support three-way teams for live conferences | Qvest Media |
MediorNet real-time network | Riedel |
VSM Broadcast control system | Lawo |
Integration of Audio-Over-IP-network based on Dante with audio products from Lawo | Qvest Media |
Core Switches type Nexus 7710 for the central IT backbone with Nexus FEX2248TP-E and Catalyst 4948 Access switches | Cisco |
Storage solution with up to 735 terabyte capacity | Isilon |
Blade Server BL460c | HP |
ALL-Flash storage EMC Unity 300F | DELL EMC |
Archiving | SGL und Quantum |
Playout server, playout router and ADC automation | Imagine |
Mixers, cameras, glue equipment | Sony |
LED studio walls, M2.5C | Aoto |
LED controller | Aoto |
LED floor studio, LED Floor Studio, Zirkon7 | KTL |
LED ticker studio, C-Block6 | KTL |
Studio monitoring | Sony, Samsung, NEC |
Projection curved studio | Christie |