Do you need to provide live coverage of elite, expansive, outdoor events, or action that’s occurring in one-or-more, multi-use venues? Then you need Gravity Media’s mobile, RF-based, wireless broadcast infrastructure which can be trusted to deliver multiple, reliable, UHD video streams across air, land and water.
Our bespoke technologies, fleet of specialist vehicles and decades of experience in covering these events, will ensure that your audience won’t miss a thing. Our innovative creative vision will then keep them transfixed.
In addition to our global array of bespoke OB trucks, Gravity Media’s broadcast fleet includes 35 fully equipped BMW motorcycles; access to electric motorbikes; five, fully equipped relay aeroplanes; drones; and more-than 25, EASA-certified, RF-camera helicopters.
We capture more than 1500 RF events per year and our 80+ strong team of specialists work on the largest sporting events and entertainment shows around the world. Whether you need long-range, mid-range or short-range RF Services & Connectivity, ask us how our connected vehicles can cover your event.
Our Livecentre is the connectivity hub which connects all of our Dutch facilities and studios, enabling enrichment, live ingest for further processing in the Gravity Media post environment or simply QC control on live feed before sending to broadcaster’s end control or MCR for live on air. Our remote production galleries are integrated in our Livecentre infrastructure to enable flexible production workflows, either through the 2110 uncompressed ‘diPloy’ philosophy used to several daily live shows or through our compressed low-latency smart remote production setup which is especially suited for lower tier sports productions.
Next to its local hub functionality with direct access to national broadcaster hubs, Livecentre together with our Belgian (Vilvoorde) based systems are also responsible for the 24/7 live sourcing services of all live sports content for two of the biggest sports broadcasters in the Benelux region: ZiggoSport, ESPN and Playsport. Together we operate a geo-redundant downlink farm for traditional satellite sourcing and are fibre connected to several worldwide providers (Tata, Eurovision, Lumen) for growing volume of IP multicast delivery alongside the popular delivery methods SRT, RIST, Zixi etc.
Through our London hub we have quick and direct access to Europe’s main hub at BT Tower and to our remote galleries in London. Our London Hub also offers direct connectivity to our Manchester operation, and with a multitude of network providers, easy access to anywhere in the world. It can also serve as a DR site for any and all of our operations.
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We have worked with Gravity Media for more than 20 years on a variety of global projects. These have ranged from World Cups and other worldwide tournaments to co-productions and UK facilities. We uniquely trust Gravity Media to deliver end-to-end services without the need for on-site ITV sport technical supervision, which reflects our respect for their staff and facilities, and our appreciation of their production-lead approach to our programming.
Roger Pearce
Technical Director, ITV Sport
Designing and implementing a workflow which is capable of producing a daily broadcast from the jungle is a huge challenge we undertake every year. Gravity Media help us to achieve this with their knowledge, experience and can-do approach. There’s a reason why they’ve been here with us in the jungle for so long.
Helen Kruger
Bratt Production Executive Entertainment, ITV
The Cy-Stem has been carefully designed to save on time, money and resources while delivering an enhanced broadcast production with previously unattainable footage and unparalleled image quality. With Gravity Media’s global reach and in-house expertise, we’re now able to reach a far wider market.
David Bourgeois
Founder, CyanView