FAS enhances broadcast coverage with in-house production – Football Association of Singapore & More News Here

Improved capabilities with new production hub and high onscreen expertise to supply unprecedented viewing expertise for SPL followers

 

 

SINGAPORE, 17 JUNE 2022 – The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) right this moment introduced thrilling plans to deliver the viewing expertise of AIA Singapore Premier League (SPL) matches to larger heights.

 

On the technical entrance, this will likely be achieved by means of new in-house production and broadcast capabilities, which have been made potential with next-generation FIFA-certified software-based soccer productions techniques. Supplied to the FAS as half of a five-year contract with Ideal Systems, the area’s largest broadcast and media techniques integrator, these techniques will likely be utilised in a brand new soccer production hub housed on the Jalan Besar Stadium. The Jurong East Stadium, Our Tampines Hub, Hougang Stadium and Toa Payoh Stadium have all been retrofitted with distant cameras that relay the feeds again to this hub – often called the Production Control Room 2, which is the second such facility on the stadium.

 

New pitch-side digital camera techniques that permit as much as 40-time zoom have been put in, whereas community connectivity has been improved to ship enhanced reliability and a smoother viewing expertise. A brand new partnership with AE Live – a world main supplier of tv graphics that counts the likes of FIFA, World Rugby, Women’s Tennis Association and Sky Sports as shoppers – will allow revamped graphics, similar to for line-ups, so as to add dynamism to matches. More technical info may be discovered within the Appendix under.

 

The above know-how was put in place previous to the beginning of the present season and has been utilised because the 2022 AIA Community Shield match. Subsequently, the processes had been additional refined throughout the first spherical of matches, which concluded on 20 April, to set the stage for an enhanced viewing expertise for the rest of the marketing campaign.

 

Enhanced on and off-screen choices

 

A line-up of high onscreen expertise has complemented the improved production, headlined by established presenter John Dykes – a well-known face on the planet of sports activities broadcasting with over 20 years of expertise. He is supported by a stellar forged that features Shehzad Haque and Mark Richmond, considered two of the most effective sports activities commentators within the area, who will information viewers by means of every match whereas former participant Rhysh Roshan Rai and soccer coach Shasi Kumar will likely be available alongside them as pundits to supply professional evaluation and perception. Each Matchweek will likely be headlined by one Match of the Week, the place build-up commences half-hour previous to kick-off with a pre-match present that delivers detailed insights, staff updates, unique opinions and extra that won’t be discovered anyplace else.

 

Content choices round matchdays have been beefed up with two new reveals: the SPL Social and SPL Express. The SPL Social, helmed by Singaporean sports activities character Ashikin Hashim – higher often called Futbolita – is a 30-minute Facebook present that sees her have interaction completely different visitor stars each week on a range of subjects that span their ideas on the SPL to their personalities off the pitch. Fans are additionally inspired to get entangled with contests that provide engaging prizes. On the SPL Express, former skilled participant and soccer analyst Rhysh Roshan Rai presents brief and sharp evaluation on a short-form present that appears again on the earlier week of SPL motion and previews the upcoming spherical to deliver followers nearer to the league.

 

Valued partnerships

 

All SPL and Singapore Cup matches this season will likely be live-streamed on-line on the SPL YouTube channel and Mediacorp’s meWATCH platform, along with being broadcast on Singtel and StarHub.

 

On matchdays, skilled “live” sports activities broadcasting personnel are offered by our valued production associate Mediacorp, together with the cameramen, producers, replay operators and different essential personnel to assist ship a high-class viewing expertise.

 

Abhishek Ravikrishnan, Manager (Content and Production), FAS, believes that the slew of technical enhancements, mixed with the stellar line-up of broadcast expertise, will add unprecedented worth for the followers.

 

“The fan experience is of great importance to the FAS and as the SPL grows in excitement and reputation, we are constantly striving to deliver the best possible viewing experience to them,” he stated. “This is even more vital in light of the current capacity limits at match venues, which means that a majority of our audience will be tuning in online or on television. The new broadcast systems that we have put in place this season with the help of Ideal, together with the best of onscreen talent in Singapore, will ensure that experience is optimal. During the first round of matches, some teething issues that came up were addressed with all partners and we are now confident that going forward, fans can receive a modern, fresh and dynamic experience no matter where they are tuning in from.”

 

Fintan Mc Kiernan, CEO Ideal Systems Singapore, stated: “We are ecstatic to be working with FAS on this project. They have been so supportive of our use of new technologies like NDI (Network Device Interface) and software-based live production tools which has allowed our technology team to create a truly next-generation solution and what we believe is a world-first for IP based live sports production at a national scale.”

 

CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE

 

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About the brand new FAS Production Hub

 

A plethora of new cutting-edge broadcast applied sciences will likely be deployed in Asia for the primary time, the core of which relies on ViBox from MerelyLive. ViBox is a software-based NDI enabled production instrument for multi-camera soccer production that brings collectively all the main parts of stay soccer production together with a video switcher, audio mixer, dynamic graphics, immediate replay, highlights creation and is operated utilizing an intuitive good touchscreen person interface. The new production hub may also embrace DELTA-offside, a FIFA-certified offside line evaluation system from Deltacast that makes use of revolutionary picture processing know-how to superimpose digital offside line tied to the pitch with none sensors required on the production cameras.

 

For matches on the distant stadiums, all of the digital camera feeds are NDI and are aggregated into the MerelyLive Venue Gateway which makes use of SRT to ship the feeds again to the production hub through a Dejero Gateway which offers community aggregation for dependable connectivity throughout the dual-redundant web connections. Powered by Dejero Smart Blending Technology, the Dejero GateWay units mixture numerous connectivity paths from a number of suppliers to ship enhanced reliability, expanded coverage, and larger bandwidth. The Dejero GateWay additionally offers bonded mobile back-up connectivity within the occasion each web connections to a stadium fail. Kiloview SRT encoders and -Dejero gateways are used for the ultimate distribution feeds from the Jalan Besar Production Hub to native broadcasters SingTel and StarHub.

 

Cameras

 

Pitch-side cameras equipped by Ideal Systems embrace the well-respected JVC GY-HC500, which options 40X zoom. Ideal has additionally equipped FAS with Singapore’s first BirdDog A200 NDI weather-sealed PTZ sports activities cameras with 30x zoom and super-fast presets. Ideal additionally offered the range-topping BirdDog P4K digital camera for the brand new chromakey TV studio, which is totally NDI-based utilizing the TriCaster from NewTek.

 

Communication

 

In an extra use of new applied sciences, Ideal is supplying FAS with a brand new audio over IP intercom system utilizing software-based Unity Intercom and unity iOS and Android apps working on cell phones as “beltpacks”. This will present native and distant communication between all customers on the production hub and stadiums. Unity permits numerous connections from cell units both on wifi or mobile knowledge.

 

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