On Saturday 20 February, FIBA held the important 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualifier match featuring the New Zealand Tall Blacks and Australian Boomers at the Cairns Pop-Up Arena in Australia.

The match was originally scheduled to take place in the Philippines earlier on in the year, however due to the challenges of the global pandemic the location changed.

Gravity Media provided a full turnkey production for FIBA and Fox Sports, utilising an on-site outside broadcast and downstream commentary with delivery from The Production Centre in Sydney.

Our Sydney Production Centre is located at Artarmon on Sydney’s North Shore. There are two large studios available for dry hire or fully crewed, with make-up rooms, green rooms and lounge areas, plus kitchens, dining facilities, parking and loading docks.

As experts in handling complex production needs, and with a reputation for providing innovative broadcast solutions for live televised events, Gravity Media is the supplier of choice for anyone looking to shoot people shooting hoops. We cover college basketball, national basketball leagues, World Cup competitions and more – through full outside broadcast solutions or innovative REMI/’At Home’ productions.

Find out more about our experience with Basketball click here and to find out how Gravity Media can help you with your next production, email enquiries@gravitymedia.com

When we pause to reflect on the past 12 months, it becomes apparent what an action-packed, transformative and defining year it has been for Gravity Media. We work in a fast-changing, dynamic industry ‒ and we love it. There’s a relentless drive for efficiency, content is being delivered and consumed in ever-more innovative ways, and our clients’ customers are looking for increasingly immersive experiences.

It’s therefore an industry in which companies can only succeed if they continue to re-invent themselves, which is why this year we decided to rethink how we’re organised and how we present ourselves to the outside world. The result, as we’re sure you know by now, was the move to Gravity Media as our single brand around the world formed by the combination of Gearhouse Broadcast, HyperActive Broadcast, Input Media, and our recent acquisitions of Chief Entertainment in Australia, Proshow Broadcast in the USA and GENESIS Broadcast Services in Germany. It was clearly the right move made at the right time, as we look to capitalise on our expansion over the past three decades to create an integrated, global business better able to serve our clients.

Amongst all this internal change, there has been no let-up in our project work. We’ve continued to help deliver some of the world’s most memorable broadcast moments, from Formula 1 and FIBA Basketball to FIFA Women’s World Cup football and World Sevens Rugby. Sport has been a constant thread, which has seen us cover the world’s best tennis at three Grand Slams; the Open Championship golf; Red Bull Rampage mountain biking; F1H2O powerboats; State of Origin Rugby League; and much, much more.

And it’s not just about sport. Our teams have also been onsite around the world covering events that span the broadcast spectrum, from London’s Festival of Remembrance to the LA Phil’s 100^th birthday party, not to mention the many award-winning films and documentaries we’ve helped bring to screens big and small over the course of the year.

Meanwhile, we’ve continued to meet growing demand for UHD content, and have not only upgraded our entire fleet of EVS XT servers to run the latest Multicam 16.00 operating system, but we’ve also added to our extensive arsenal of 4K cameras and lenses as part of our multi-million pound annual equipment investment package.

We’ve made significant investment in people too. We now number over 500 around the world, and have brought in some key hires to help manage our new, unified business. Steve Norris, for example, joined us in October as Director of Production & Content, and Tony Valentino joined earlier this month as Head of RF & Specialist Cameras.

It’s important we mention people, because although a lot of our business is focused on broadcast infrastructure and physical inventory, we’re really a people business at heart. We pride ourselves on our reputation for reliability and quality, and on the relationships we’ve built with our fantastic clients and fantastic partners. We were delighted to see so many of you at the events we’ve attended this year, from IBC, NAB, Gamescom and SportsPro to MIPCOM, SATIS and numerous SVG events, and we look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year.

~ Flypacks deployed at three venues including UHD solution for final in Beijing ~

Watford, UK, 11 September 2019 – Gearhouse Broadcast, the Gravity Media-owned supplier of technical facilities, crew and services used to capture the world’s most watched content, is providing a range of facilities to FIBA, through is entity FIBA Media, for its host broadcast of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019. These include the deployment of Gearhouse’s Flypack portable production systems at three of the eight official venues, with a UHD solution being used in Beijing where the Final will be held. The 32-team tournament takes place across China between 31 August – 15 September.

In what FIBA Media describes as its biggest and most ambitious TV, digital and social media coverage global production plan ever, this World Cup marks a momentous change in the production, coverage, presentation and multi-platform availability of the event. It’s featuring a host of innovations, including augmented reality, referee-audio, and a broadcast SuperFeed.

Gearhouse Broadcast is also providing host commentary services for FIBA Media at six of the eight venues. This enables rights owners to deliver bespoke broadcasts to their audiences – either on site at the arena or remotely using real-time audio-over-IP networking technology.

Ed Tischler, Managing Director at Gearhouse Broadcast (UK) said: “With viewer expectations so high these days, the pressure is on to make productions stand out by delivering a large amount of quality coverage across a multitude of formats. Rights owners like FIBA that are looking to further enhance the quality of their coverage are turning to Gearhouse Broadcast because of its reputation for innovation and its track record of working with host broadcasters at the biggest events.”

Gravity Media will be showcasing the latest complex live broadcast facilities and production services it offers across its four core brands – Gearhouse Broadcast, Hyperactive Broadcast, Input Media and Chief Entertainment – on stand 10.B39 at IBC2019 in Amsterdam.