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MEDIAPRO Canada has secured an exclusive agreement to provide a state-of-the-art channel playout solution for REV TV Canada, the 24/7 motorsports network available in over 6 million Canadian homes, and, as of last month, the new home for the MotoGP World Championships.
Mediapro Canada will also be supporting the channel with remote production facilities and live integration for a series of motorsport events across Canada and the US.
Mike Garrow, President of REV TV, said that “moving our master control and signal delivery services to Mediapro Canada is a strong technological step forward for us as we continue to expand our network's offerings. As REV TV continues to diversify its live North American and International races along with original programming for the network, Mediapro offers us all the services and skill sets that will ensure we reach new heights for our customers”.
The company’s playout centre and broadcast facilities in Toronto, Ontario, are part of the wider Grupo Mediapro’s international playout service, which provides customers around the world with reliable and self-managed channel playout automation.
Oscar López, CEO of Mediapro Canada, emphasized that “we are providing REV TV with a game-changing cloud-based playout solution which we already have in place for more than 100 channels worldwide, including FOX, beIN Sports 4K, Disney Channel and The Olympic Channel, among others. This is a turn-key service for a new generation of broadcasters around the globe.”
The group’s playout centers in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain), Miami (USA), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Toronto are fully equipped with all the capabilities (content ingest and management, digital archiving, quality control, subtitling, ad and logo insertion and graphic overlay) required for cutting-edge broadcast channel generation, and are interconnected via a fiber-based network, facilitating global distribution via satellite and terrestrial video networks.
Overon, Grupo Mediapro’s broadcast facilities subsidiary, manages a fully-redundant global broadcast infrastructure featuring powerful interconnectivity, a highly-integrated workflow and 24/7 operation teams across each centre, guaranteeing instant disaster recovery and reliable channel availability.
About REV TV: REV TV Canada is a 24/7 motorsports channel available in over 6 million Canadian homes and featuring close 200 live races, from two wheels to four. REV TV showcases all forms of high-octane racing, such as Moto GP, World Rally Championship, All Star Circuit of Champions, AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship, Indy Lights, Super Formula, Castrol FloRacing Night In America, AMSOIL Championship Snocross, 400 Thunder Drag Racing ARCA Midwest Tour, SPEED SPORT TV, along with non-live content including The Inside Line (F-1), Icarus Sports’ Gearing Up series, Winged Nation Winged Sprint car coverage, Tuning 365 Performance Auto & Sound Magazine, original programming with REV Culture and REV Profiles, All North Racing, prominent interviews, how-to and behind-the-scenes programs and more. For more information, visit www.revtv.ca.
About MEDIAPRO Canada: MEDIAPRO Canada is a full-service company offering mobiles, air-packs, REMI capability, AutomaticTV automated sports production, crewing, studios and a complete rentals department from its Toronto, Canada headquarters. Its newly-expanded fleet of seven Outside Broadcast units includes Odyssey, the first mid-size 4K mobile in North America, and Alto, a 53′ fully equipped expando mobile, with capability for 14 cameras and 4 EVS systems. Mediapro Group entered the Canadian broadcast services market in April of 2019 as part of its global expansion drive.
MEDIAPRO Group is a leading global production, distribution and content creation group with 58 offices in 36 countries around the world. It operates a fleet of over 90 High Definition and 4K Outside Broadcast units and produces live coverage of more than 12,000 events around the world each year.
The Group is currently involved in the production of 14 national soccer leagues around the world, including Spain’s LaLiga, the Belgian ProLeague, the Portuguese Primeira Liga, the Turkish Süper Lig, Italy’s Serie A, the Greek Super League, the Primera División of Chile, Mexico’s LigaMX and the Kenyan Premier League; it also produces events for the UEFA Champions League, FIFA World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, the Africa Cup of Nations, FIBA events, the Euroleague and Formula 1. MEDIAPRO manages the global media rights to Spain’s LaLiga Santander and produces and manages 22 TV channels worldwide, including several specialty sports channels. Mediapro is also the official provider of VAR technology for 17 leagues and tournaments, and counts LaLiga, Formula 1, FIFA, UEFA and FIBA among its main clients.
Early in 2019, MEDIAPRO sealed a long-term partnership with Canadian Soccer Business for the worldwide media rights to the Canadian Premier League, the country’s new first division soccer league; the Canadian Championship, Canada Soccer’s highest domestic professional soccer competition, involving all professional soccer clubs in Canada; and the home games of Canada Soccer’s Men’s and Women’s National Teams, and launched OneSoccer, a dedicated soccer service available worldwide across all connected devices.
OneSoccer’s growing stable of leagues and tournaments comprises the rights to all Concacaf national team tournaments through to 2023, French Ligue 1 matches featuring Canada Soccer Men’s National Team star Jonathan David’s Lille OSC, the top-tier men’s professional soccer league in Brazil (the Brasileirão) and Mexico (Liga MX), the Spanish women’s Primera División, and of course the Canadian Premier League (CPL) and the Canadian Championship, the professional club championship organized by Canada Soccer and contested by the eight CPL teams along with the three Canadian teams playing in Major League Soccer (Toronto FC, CF Montréal and the Vancouver Whitecaps) and the winners of both League1 Ontario and the Première League de Soccer du Québec.
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Download Photo 1 Here Photo shows MEDIAPRO Canada's Master Control Room & Playout Facility
Download Photo 2 Here Photo shows Maverick Viñales of Spain, racing for Monster Energy Yamaha, winner of the first round of the 2021 MotoGP World Championship, held at the Losail Interntional Circuit in Lusail, Qatar in late March. Photo courtesy of Dorna Sports
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