Broadcast and data solutions provider, AE Live, is extending its partnership with Channel Nine to cover the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games for 2024.
The announcement:
AE Live, a world-leading global provider of data and broadcast solutions, has announced the extension of its long-standing partnership with Australian broadcaster, Channel Nine, for the delivery and coverage of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Nine Entertainment announced last year that it had won the rights to broadcast the Summer and Winter Olympics until 2032 – Nine’s first broadcast of the Olympic Games since 2012. Nine is in a unique position, delivering the Games across free-to-air TV, streaming, digital publishing, radio and print.
Globally recognised as one of the principal providers of specialist graphics and data services for some of the world’s leading governing bodies, broadcasters and production companies, AE Live’s partnership with Channel Nine has seen the two organisations working together on Nine’s enduring coverage of the NRL (both women’s and men’s competitions, and including State of Origin), the Australian Open Tennis, the recent Australian Swimming trials and Cricket.
AE Live has a long history of servicing its global broadcast clients, by delivering data and graphics services for a number of Olympics. The Games may have only just officially started, but Nine and AE Live’s preparations have been many months in the making and, with AE Live’s wide global footprint and depth of talent, it has brought together specialist teams in three nations (Australia, UK and France), providing Nine with best-in-class resource, delivering seamless services under the one AE Live banner.
AE Live is currently working with Nine across the design, build and delivery of Broadcast Graphics, including Virtual Studio delivery in Paris, and AR elements for the Olympics and Paralympics. A local team of 20 graphics operators, technicians, designers, developers, project and operations management are working out of Nine’s North Sydney HQ around the clock, for the duration of the games.
AE Live’s Australian team is also hosting a team of virtual artists and AR operators from AE Live UK, who are assisting in Sydney with the delivery of Nine’s Virtual Studio in Paris, and virtual asset delivery locally. They are augmenting the work of the AE Live’s Australian team on the ground in Paris, who are embedded with Nine’s broadcast and technical team onsite.
“We’re thrilled to partner with our friends at Nine on yet another of their blue-chip sporting properties,” said Narelle Vine, AE Live’s Australian general manager. “Our two organisations have a deep affinity, rooted in our combined passion for all forms of sport, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality broadcast products. We have enormous respect for Brent, Alex and the entire team at Nine, not just for what they do, but how they go about it, and it’s a privilege to be part of their extended team at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.”
As the home of the Olympics and Paralympics, Channel Nine are offering Australians round-the-clock coverage of this year’s games, with the broadcaster steering viewers across 32 sports in 329 events, featuring Australia’s most revered athletic talent as commentators and experts.
Source: AE Live
