Journal

The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football. CAF represents the national football associations of Africa which runs continental, national, and club competitions.  On Saturday 13 February, Gravity Media supported CIS Television to broadcast the Horoya vs Petro Atletico football match from the General Lansana Conté Stadium in Conakry, Guinea.   The Gravity Media team bought…

Rise Announces 2021 Mentoring Schemes, Adding North America to its UK and Singapore Locations –        Also Announces its 2021/22 Sponsors  – London, United Kingdom, 08 March 2021 – Rise, the membership group for gender diversity within the broadcast technology media sector today announced its sponsors for 2021/22, and also the launch of this year’s mentoring…

With the recent news of lockdown potentially being lifted across England in June 2021, here at Gravity Media we have our fingers crossed that we will be singing our hearts out at festivals in the summer. When it comes to orchestrating the coverage of any live musical event, you need look no further than Gravity…

Gravity Media recently launched The Production Center, San Francisco located in the SoMa district. The Production Center in San Francisco is a modern and flexible production workspace. The facility is accommodated within Pac-12’s 75,000 sq ft (7,000 sq m) headquarters building, and comprises three purpose-built REMI TV production control rooms, two studio control rooms, a large TV production studio, and four smaller insert studios.   Focusing on…

The first Grand Slam of the year is complete! The finals saw the Gravity Media team capture moments in history as Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka were crowned champions.  A joint UK/Australia team from Gravity Media worked hard in Melbourne, Victoria, to deliver this year’s Australian Open (AO) tennis in ever changing circumstances. In total, there were…

There’s under two years to go until the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off, and we’re already really looking forward it – not only because we’re fanatical football fans, but also because it represents a little ray of light in the COVID-19 gloom. And we’re not just World Cup supporters, we’re also delighted to be…

The wait was finally over as the Supercars Championships returned for the Repco Mt Panorama 500 at Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia.    There was no rest over the weekend as the Gravity Media team provided all the technical broadcast facilities capturing the action from the first circuit of 2021.    Onsite, our services included outside broadcast trucks HD5 as Main Production & Fox Sports and HD9…

The Guinness PRO14 is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.  Gravity Media’s UK equipment rental team is supplying various pieces of broadcast equipment to capture the action from the upcoming fixtures. Broadcast equipment includes Canon HJ22 and HJ14 lenses, EVSs and SMPTE fibre being delivered to Glasgow and Newport.   Gravity Media offers the latest broadcast equipment for rental to the outside…

Our Southwood-based Post-Production Rentals team Last week, we spoke about the new Remote Editing solution that’s been keeping us busy at our UK post-production kit rental HQ in Southwood, Hampshire. This week, we take a look at a few of the people working at the facility, helping to make the magic happen. Jamie Brewer recently…

Kevin Moorhouse, our Project Manager and Hamish Harris, our Engineer in Charge of the Australian Open and Technical Project Manager at Gravity Media caught up with SVG Europe to discuss Gravity Media’s responsibilities at this year’s Australian Open. They discussed the enduring quarantine, rights holders working remotely, adapting to new times to rising airfreight costs hitting budgets…

Gravity Media’s Post-Production Engineers Andrew Emmerson and Jason Bloomfield have been busy setting up an edit suite at Gravity House on Frith Street in London for the Sky Original fantasy series A Discovery of Witches. The series is based on the similarly named novel of the ‘All Souls’ trilogy, written by Deborah Harkness. Teresa Palmer…

What with NFL available on Nickelodeon, how much farther can we stray from the old -world sports licensing model? Plenty it seems. Here’s how the Motley Fool defines the old-school deals currently in play: League/team sells rights to a network. Leagues and teams have agreements with TV networks to carry their games. Some of these…