HD production gained momentum last month with the production of the UEFA Cup Final in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Champions League Final in Istanbul, Turkey.

Poverkhnost’s new HDTV production truck will cover the UEFA Champions League and European League matches.

German public broadcaster SWR3 made use of a pair of MAYAH IO [io] 8001 for live video networking over WLAN/Wi-Fi during Germany's biggest live rock festival, Rock am Ring.

ESPN and ABC announced this week that it will broadcast the 2006 World Cup matches in hi-def. ESPN HD, ABC HD and ESPN2 HD will team up to present live coverage of all 64 matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006 in HD. The HD telecasts will be offered as a simulcast of ESPN, ABC Sports and ESPN2 W

The Nvision 8500 hybrid routing system was used for signal management on a Premiership football match.

The match will be telecast in 720p from Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the home of Real Madrid.

At IBC2006, Mayah Communications, a developer of audio/video products based in Germany, will emphasize its encoding solutions for mobile TV for DVB-H/DMB and SD IPTV, as well as technologies for transmitting mono, stereo and multichannel audio over a variety of networks and protocols.

Sportvision is providing graphics enhancements for ABC's and ESPN's coverage of Major League Soccer for the 2007 season, the company said.