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The next blog in our Qatar 2022 series covers the Al Rayyan Stadium in Doha. The most striking feature of this 40,000-seat arena is a glowing façade, made up of patterns that characterise different cultural aspects of Qatar. Built on the site of the former Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium, another interesting feature of the Al…
The MEI International Federations Summit is back for another year! Gravity Media is delighted to be sponsoring this year’s summit and leading two-round table sessions. Join Gravity Media’s Business Development Manager, Laura Wignall (between 8:00-09:30hrs BST), and Gravity Media’s Head of Business Development, Blair Wood (between 15:00-16:30hrs BST), on the topics of broadcast and digital…
20-year veteran of elite sports communications to spearhead Gravity Media’s European expansion Watford, UK, 13 April 2021 – Gravity Media– the leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors – has appointed Mathias Barbera as Business Development Manager. He will be responsible for developing Gravity Media’s…
Overview Behind every team out in the field there’s got to be someone holding it all together in base, and that’s me. My role is to oversee the entirety of a project, from initial enquiry onwards, so I’m rarely out in the field. The first part of my role is creating accurate quotes for the…
ENGLISH Gravity Media’s team in Germany can now be found at Hamburger Straße 9 in Brühl, just a 10 kilometre (6 mile) jog from our old office on Innungstraße in Hürth. Located near the left bank of the Rhine River, the new premises are 20 minutes from the city centres of both Cologne and Bonn, via…
The most interesting job I’ve done recently was The Circle at the end of last year. That was a four-month project that required us to create an entire TV facility in an abandoned building in Manchester. It involved eight EVS servers recording permanently, nearly a petabyte of storage, and about 30 edit suites and laptops all running…
Sydney, Australia, 08 April 2021 – Gravity Media, the leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors, has appointed former Head of Sport at Seven Network and Fox Sports Saul Shtein as its new Director, Production and Content in Australia. After a stellar run of hugely…
Significant kit and infrastructure investment will support remote and hybrid post-production in post-Covid era Watford, UK, 7 April 2021 – Gravity Media has implemented a major investment programme for its London post-production offering. A significant sum is being spent on kit upgrades and a long-term extension to the lease of its popular serviced facility…
Over the Easter long weekend, Gravity Media headed to Stawell, a small town in country Victoria to deliver a production and facility turn-key the broadcast of the 2021 Powercor Stawell Gift, an icon of Australian Sport. The Powercor Stawell Gift began in 1878 at the end of the gold rush, starting out as the “Easter Gift” conducted by the Stawell Athletic Club in a program of seven races, with most run in multiple heats. Since then, it has been…
Canon has set the benchmark with this class-leading HDTV lens. The HJ14 manages to combine a leap in optical performance with a super-wide angle, to create an outstanding piece of kit that’s extremely popular with our clients. In particular, Canon has invested time and effort on the ergonomics of the lens and drive unit, to…
On Sunday 4 April, the Gravity Media team in the UK supplied broadcast equipment including EVSs and post-production equipment for the annual Gemini Boat Race. Normally held on the River Thames, this year’s race between the Oxford and Cambridge Blue Boats took place on the River Great Ouse at Ely, Cambridgeshire which marked the 75th…
The Canon HJ22 is often seen as a great complement to the HJ14. Both lenses have enough flexibility that they can almost do each other’s job, but the longer focal length of the HJ22 can give softer backgrounds and a more compressed depth of field, versus the HJ14’s skill at showing the scale of the…
