NEW CONTRACTS FOR BADMINTON TV COVERAGE
| NEW CONTRACTS FOR BADMINTON TV COVERAGE As previously announced, The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials has a new three year contract with the BBC to cover the event to 2012. Under the new agreement Badminton will source and produce the programmes. Various aspects of the broadcasting package were put out to competitive tender among well established and newer production companies. Heading the production team will be freelance TV sports producer and consultant Chris Lewis, senior producer of the BBC team between 2001 and 2006. He will be supported by many Badminton regulars including Gerry Morrison, who produced in 2007. |  |
Horse and Country TV will have access to coverage for live streaming and will also broadcast extended coverage post event from its SKY platform. H&C will also be responsible for syndicating content to broadcasters and websites worldwide, including additional programming over and above the traditional highlights package. The overall objective is further to enhance Badminton's reputation as one of the world's leading equestrian events and to ensure maximum value for the event and media sponsors.
In addition a new company to Badminton, Viewpress, will be taking on the internal distribution of TV signals for CCTV and Big Screen, providing state of the art screens and TV sets in addition to the Mitsubishi Electric Big Screen.
Cross Country will be live on the ‘red button' on the Sunday 2nd May 2010 then BBC2 will air a 2 hour highlights programme on Bank Holiday Monday to include the final rounds of the Show Jumping.
Added on: 12/11/09.
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