Sportscom™ Success Stories About Gravity Media
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SPORTSCOM™ ABOUT GRAVITY MEDIA SUCCESS STORIES Gravity Media is a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors. We use the collective pull of our people and Global Rapid Rugby resources to create world-class content that inspires and excites. SportsCom™ has been successfully deployed at rugby union’s newest match series, Global Rapid Rugby. This showcase format sees teams from around the Asia Pacific region do battle on the Gravity Media is a brand-new company with a 30-year pedigree, formed by the coming together of field in an amended-rule rugby union match, designed to be faster and more exciting for the fans four established broadcast and production houses: Gearhouse Broadcast, HyperActive Broadcast, than the traditional game. Input Media and Chief Entertainment. Our 500 people serve clients across the sport, media, news and entertainment industries from bases in the UK, Australia, USA, France, Germany and Qatar. As part of an assignment that also saw Gravity Media provide outside broadcast services, SportsCom™ was used to provide a high-quality, on-field matchday communications solution, Our three broad categories of expertise – media services & facilities; production & content; and with voice audio suitable for broadcast. equipment rental & sales – span the entire broadcast spectrum. Contact us today to see how we can help with your next production. We supported SportsCom™ applications in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand, with a set-up that allowed officials both at the field and based remotely to talk to the on-field match officials as if they were running the field with them. GET IN TOUCH Rugby Australia SportsCom™ and RefBox were used to improve both player welfare and officiating standards for UK Rugby Australia, who required a mission-critical referee communications, judicial replay (TMO) London France and head injury assessment (HIA) solution. Manchester Paris Surrey +33 1 49 15 91 42 The system is being deployed across both the Super Rugby season and the Rugby international Watford Germany +44 20 3104 0000 series in Australia for both men and women, to provide a high-level adjudication system that Cologne uses both verbal communications and video replay to ensure the best outcome for the game. +49 2233 39193 0 AFL SportsCom™ has been an integral part of AFL national games since 2017. A challenging environment and large coverage area make communication with and between the three on-field umpires a necessity, as they navigate a large pitch passing off the main umpiring duties between them, covering many kilometres in a game. The SportsCom™ system provides communication between on-field and off-field match officials at the stadium, which is used in the broadcast mix, as well as providing remote match officials seamless communications to all the officials from anywhere across the globe. USA Los Angeles Charlotte +1 818 955-9449 Qatar Doha + 974 4458 3422 Australia Sydney Melbourne [email protected] +61 2 9313 3100 SPORTSCOMTM gravitymedia.com EVENT COMMUNICATIONS REFEREE SportsCom™ Lite Remote COMMUNICATIONS Our dry hire standalone match official communications system for self-deployment. AND REPL AY adjudication facility The system provides a plug-and-play solution for up to four officials (wireless) and one official (static). SportsCom™ uses best-of-breed products This is a cost-effective way to get the right communications kit for the event with operational to create a system that maintains the support via phone. highest level of robust wireless solutions, coupled with technologies to provide interference detection and avoidance to ensure reliable communications to the on- SportsCom™ Lite Plus field match officials. A step up from Lite that includes one operator to rig, install, test and operate a more complex solution for up to 6 match officials (wireless) and four officials (static) on hardwired panels. REMOTE The enhanced system provides superior broadcast quality audio, and greater coverage for wired and ADJUDICATION wireless users. The system provides spectral efficiency SportsCom™ and redundancy to ensure maximum uptime and worry free deployment in This is the core system and service for broadcasting. Anchored by two operators, the solution is even harsh environments, and spectrum designed to handle 8 match officials (wireless), but can be expanded to include more. management tools are integrated within SportsCom™ for operator analysis and SportsCom™ comes with full intercom capabilities, and can be expanded to include a remote troubleshooting. adjudication centre with full transparent communication to both on-field and stadium-based The Cloud personnel. COACH The service provides broadcast-quality audio, frequency detection and avoidance for wireless users. COMMUNICATIONS SportsCom™ RefBox All systems are encrypted to ensure the communication path stays private and Our most frequent add-on to SportsCom Lite Plus and SportsCom™ integrates a match replay only those who are required to hear the adjudication service that can be fed back into broadcast, and uses camera feeds from the communications receive them. And it broadcast provider. sounds great, too. Stadium Operator handling ranges from installation and technical support through to complete hands-on support to the match official. Key kit and service features include: wireless microphones; remote-control wireless transmitters; frequency diversity – two identical SportsCom™ Plus signals on independent frequencies with automatic switchover; interference detection & Our further SportsCom communication services include: SPORTSCOM™ avoidance via a dedicated spectrum manager; next-generation digital radio and channel • SportsCom™ StatsTalk – for statisticians. quality metering; spectral efficiency – high density transmission mode with up to 50 active • SportsCom™ Coach – for coaches on the bench or in multiple locations. This can be either in the The event communication channels per 7 MHz TV; high operating range; stadium or stadium-to-remote. and encryption – an AES 256-bit encrypted signal system for matchday performance. ensures that every transmission is secure. • SportsCom™ TeamRadio – wireless and wired solutions for team match and event staff..