More than 270 hours of live events
Starting from Saturday, February 21, 2015 Mediaset has aired exclusively free to air and always live the entire season of the World Superbike Championship (WSBK), which includes free practice, qualifying practice, warm up and races of all three categories, Championship of Superbike, Supersport and Superstock 600 and 1000. All this, for a total of 14 hours of live direct broadcast per weekend.
A "big circus" guaranteed by the team of over 30 people, including journalists, producers, directors and operators on the track for every grand round by Mediaset.
The engines are on from Saturday, February 21 with the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, which opened the 2015 season.
Mediaset Italia2 network broadcast exclusively free to air and live all motorcycle weekend of the 3 categories involved in the competition, from the free practice to the races.
In addition to a magazine broadcast in the late evening with anticipations and curiosity on the two days of racing.
Italia1 network broadcast exclusive live and in high definition coverage in HD (channel 506), Superpole and the races of the Superbike and Supersport.
And again all qualifications, the warm up and the races are in 16: 9.
The novelty of the season is that all motorcycle enthusiasts can be part of the Superbike Mediaset team: anyone, writing to the official accounts Sportmediaset, on Facebook and Twitter, with the hashtag #sbksportmediaset, can live interact with commentary and with the journalists in the pits and ask questions that are delivered directly to the protagonists.
On www.sportmediaset.it we can follow in live streaming the entire weekend of the Superbike World Championship in simulcast with Italia 1 and Italia 2.
Each event, once completed, is available online at any time with stories, interviews and complete competitions.
Greatly enhanced the web engagement thanks the web site Sportmediaset.it so that for each round real-time updates on all the international motorsport scene are guaranteed, with sections devoted to Superbike, Formula 1, MotoGP and other "engines", with news, seasonal statistics and insights through the Grand Prix blog.
"The Struttura Motori" of Videonews is composed of Director Claudio Brachino, department leader Fabio Pravettoni, Executive Producer Andrea Cavalli, Production Manager Alberto Bianchi, Head of Journalistic Luca Budel, Head of Multimedia Mario Piraccini, and the national direction Andrea Miglio.
Fabio Pravettoni tells us: "All events are managed in the Superbike official feed directly from Dorna, international TV rights holder, and in all events Mediaset with its "Struttura Motori dept" takes the field with different technical means for customization.
To this end, the Regia HD has 4 cameras and stereo audio, namely 3 shoulder operated cameras with optical 5.2 and RF links (RF systems are by the subsidiary specializing in high frequency EI Towers) plus 1 camera with fixed position and wide angle optics in the comment booth.
For recording a system by EVS 6-channel (n ° 4 IN - 2 OUT) was chosen and the many ancillary devices are 1 ISDN HYBRID, 1 analog hybrid, one recorder / player P2 Gear.
Directly from host broadcaster Dorna, three iso cam signals arrive and there is a chance to receive and manage 4 pages of the race timing.
The fixed booth of journalistic Commentary provides, besides microphones and headphones, a 21" monitor for PGM vision and two 18" vision Quad Split (RF1 - RF2 - world feed - off air) and Quad Split with 4 pages of graphics.
Two ENG crews are always on the move recording P2 images with 18x opticals (one wide optical and one 33x). In addition to handheld and clip wireless microphones two stands and two led lights are used.
Communications are managed on fiber optics for about 800 m to enslave with the audio and video comments booth located in the cabins of the circuit.
Still optical fibers covers both audio and communications equipment / radio microphones in the commentary workspace/tv compound or pit lane (12 in, 8 out).
On site there is also an editing station with Apple Final Cut and video capture card pgm."
