BRINGING SPORTS TO LIFE

Sportcast - a subsidiary of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga.

TV-Production

Sportcast belongs to the largest TV producers of live sport worldwide and is responsible for the preparation, implementation as well as the post-processing of multimedia productions. Sportcast guarantees medial productions at the highest level by considering systematic quality management.

Host broadcaster

Sportcast produces per season all 612 matches of the German Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for DFL.

10,000 Live-Productions

Sportcast has realized more than 10,000 TV productions since 2006.

International production

Sportcast is responsible for the technical infrastructure of DFL's international product portfolio.

CONTRIBUTION & DISTRIBUTION

Sportcast oversees the contribution and global distribution of all video signals of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2. For this purpose, the different signals are checked for quality and made available to all licence partners worldwide.

Fibre network

Sportcast operates the Bundesliga fibre network, connecting all Bundesliga venues.

208 countries

Sportcast transmits the world feed live in up to 208 countries.

Satellite Transmission

Sportcast provides the world feed also via satellite.

GERMAN FOOTBALL ARCHIVE

Sportcast operates the largest digital football archive in the world. The archive is the central content source for cross-media products and is available to all media partners 24/7. The enhancement of content with metadata as well as the use of cutting-edge categorisation technologies ensure fast and accurate search results.

1963/64

Almost any match scene from the 1963/64 Bundesliga season until now is available in the archive.

VoD formats

The archive is the basis for the Video-on-Demand offer by DFL.

175,000 hours

The archive preserves 175,000 hours of historical and current film and video material.

Media portal

All contents can be easily retrieved through a web-based, user-friendly search function.

12,000 hours

The archive grows annually by 12,000 hours of football content.

INNOVATION

By means of consistent innovation and technology management as well as the latest production technology, Sportcast integrates throughout a target-orientated consolidation of video- and audio-signals as well as data-feeds and graphic elements innovative products and services live into the world feed.

Augmented reality

Sportcast integrates augmented reality graphic elements for selected matches live into the world feed.

Automated close-ball mixing

Sportcast has developed an automated audio production concept through the networked use of data.

UHD

Sportcast produces one match of the Bundesliga in UHD per match day.

Subsidiaries

Sportcast is part of the DFL Group. The Sportcast Group includes the subsidiaries HD SAT Communication GmbH and LIVECAST TV Produktion GmbH.

HD SAT Communication GmbH

HD SAT became a specialist in transmitting live images via fibre and satellite. www.hdsatcom.de

LIVECAST TV Produktion GmbH

LIVECAST has to identical state-of-the-art OB Vans. www.livecast.de

Contact

SPORTCAST GmbH
Kaltenbornweg 2
50679 Köln

Phone: +49 (0)221 99559-0
Fax: +49 (0)221 99559-599
Email: info@sportcast.de