OUR FOOTBALL DNA A 30-YEAR PEDIGREE IN DELIVERING ELITE LEVEL FOOTBALL ON A GLOBAL SCALE - Gravity Media
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OUR FOOTBALL DNA A 30-YEAR PEDIGREE IN DELIVERING ELITE LEVEL FOOTBALL ON A GLOBAL SCALE
CAPTURE, CRAFT, CREATE
Gravity Media is a brand-new company with a 30-year pedigree, formed
by the coming together of our established broadcast and production
houses including Input Media, Gearhouse Broadcast and HyperActive
Broadcast in Europe, along with Chief Entertainment in Australia. We are
a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and
production services to content owners, creators and distributors.
Every day we operate within the top tier of world sport and, at the heart of
our business, is a rich tradition of delivering high-end content and live
production across the full spectrum of world football. From FIFA World
Cups to UEFA’s elite club competitions, Premier League giants and the
oldest cup competition in the world, The FA Cup, Gravity Media is always
at the forefront of the action. The biggest names in football repeatedly
trust us to deliver and our blue chip clients include UEFA, FIFA, The FA
and Premier League clubs Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal along with
major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Fox Sports and BT Sport.
We provide a wide range of services in football production including:
• Live match/world feed production and fast turnaround highlights
• Studio wraparounds for major tournaments and Premier League
matches
• Big Screen production at some of the most iconic stadiums in sport
including Wembley, the Emirates and FIFA World Cup venues
• High-end social media content creation for federations and clubs
• Full production of International Programming Blocks for Premier
League clubs
• OB Facilities and equipment hire for live match coverage
• Digital Archive management and storage systems
We have worked with some of the biggest names in football for decades.
Should you choose to partner with Gravity Media, this expertise, along
with our state-of-the-art facilities in London and global network of offices,
will all be at your disposal.
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OUR CLIENTS Copyright 2020 Gravity Media
UEFA
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE MATCHNIGHT OPERATION
• Long-standing relationship producing wide range of deliverables on Europe’s elite club competitions
• Every single UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League match from the Group Stages onwards is fed into our
building and then distributed to rights holders around the world
• We provide match night monitoring and quality control, off-tube commentary of all games, the highly-acclaimed Instant
Highlights Feed and multi-version highlights of each match
• Each match night, within 45 minutes of the last full-time, we deliver a ready-to-air highlights show for international distribution
• On Champions League Group Stage nights we have eight commentary booths, two live galleries, nine edit suites, a multifeed
logging area and a 14-person EVS highlights operation all running simultaneously
• On Europa League nights this expands further to facilitate 12 live commentaries running concurrently
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FIFA WORLD CUPS
EBIF AND BIG SCREENS SERVICES FOR HBS AT BRAZIL 2014 & RUSSIA 2018
• Gravity Media played a key role in the broadcast aspects of the 2014
FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
• For both tournaments, we were contracted by HBS to produce the
EBIF – Extended Basic International Feed
• Our producers have delivered EBIF programming around all 64
matches for the last two FIFA World Cups, from the opening match
to the final – programming watched by billions around the world
• EBIF programming used a variety of feeds to create a fully-packaged
wraparound feed for FIFA rights holders
• The full feed included bespoke pre-match features and fan colour
along with post-match reaction and analysis
• Gravity Media also provided expert teams to produce the big screens
Infotainment feeds at a number of venues in both Brazil and Russia
• Our producers followed strict FIFA protocols to help convey VAR
decisions and ensure no controversial incidents were shown to those
in attendance
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THE FA
PRODUCTION PARTNER FOR MORE THAN A DECADE
Gravity Media has been The FA’s production partner since 2008. We
deliver a wide range of services across The FA Cup and the England
Men’s and Women’s teams. These include:
• Live world feed coverage of FA Cup matches, with full commentary
and a uniform graphics package, for international rights holders
• This year all 32 FA Cup Third Round matches were delivered as
host broadcast world feeds
• A dedicated in-game digital clips service, generating 46 million
views on The FA’s social media channels in its first year
• Traditional preview and highlights shows for international
distribution
• Big screens production for Wembley Stadium across a variety of
England matches and FA competitions
• Design of full graphics package and titles sequence for The FA
Cup’s world feed provisions
• Live OB services for ad hoc requests such as England Women’s
internationals and FA Youth Cup games
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THE BBC AND WOMEN’S FOOTBALL
LEADING THE WAY WITH COVERAGE OF FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUPS AND THE WSL
• Gravity Media has played a crucial role in growing the profile of
Women’s Football in England
• BBC’s production partner for both the 2015 and 2019 FIFA
Women’s World Cups in Canada and France
• Worked in partnership with The FA and broadcasters including
the BBC, ESPN and BT Sport to produce the Women’s
Football Show highlights show for eight years
• Provide live match OBs, wraparound studios for major
tournaments, analysis-driven highlights shows or bespoke
features across a wide variety of Women’s Football
• The 2019 Women’s World Cup in France was, in particular, one
of the biggest projects we have ever delivered and showcased
Gravity Media’s capabilities both in terms of planning/logistics
and remote production
• As the BBC’s production partner, we provided roving
production crews gathering content throughout France and
pitchside presentation and commentary teams for the majority
of games
• The whole project was remotely produced from our state-of-
the-art facility in Manchester
• Ratings peaking at heights no one expected – 11.7million
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PREMIER LEAGUE
WRAPAROUND STUDIOS ON WEEKEND MATCHDAYS FOR MOLA TV
• Provide state-of-the-art four camera studio in West London to
deliver up to four live Premier League games per weekend
• Programme includes world feed match coverage, punditry from
a variety of former Premier League stars and on-site reporters
• Experienced production staff pull together detailed running
orders for each show
• We also provide a bespoke graphics package that maximises
the usage of statistical data and sponsor messaging
• Recently-installed UHD video wall allows a live feed of a
beauty camera from different grounds to be displayed behind
the studio guests to help capture the atmosphere at host
stadiums
• Video wall also allows for easy location switches when
presenting double-headers from different stadiums
• Our studio has also been used by a number of major
broadcasters as part of their live football coverage and
highlights programming
• Other projects include the 2015 Women’s World Cup and
Women’s Football Show for the BBC, the Europa League
Highlights Show for ITV and a Champions League instant
highlights show for DAZN Canada
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CLUB SERVICES
LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHELSEA, ARSENAL AND TOTTENHAM
• Dedicated production team at Stamford Bridge since 2002
• Support live and post produced programming
• Focus has now shifted towards helping deliver an
increasingly far-reaching digital content strategy
• Provide match edits, complete with commentary and
graphics, for every first team match as part of Chelsea’s
international programming block
• Our relationship with Arsenal stretches back more than 30
years and we have provided the club with a number of
services in that time
• Consistent work has always been on big screen production,
first at Highbury and now at the Emirates Stadium
• Provide production and technical staff as well as designing
the full graphics package used on the screens
• Working in partnership with Pitch International, we produce
Tottenham’s international programming block
• Manage and store the club’s digital archive
• Supply the design and integration of full graphics packages
for full match and highlights edits
• Produced the big screens during their recent relocation to
Wembley
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GLOBAL EXPERIENCE
WE HAVE DELIVERED ELITE LEVEL FOOTBALL FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE
AUSTRALIA
• 2015 AFC Asian Cup – we provided host broadcast delivery of 32 matches of football
across 5 venues in one month
• Extensive work on domestic football in Australia, providing facilities for Fox Sports’
coverage of the A-League
• We have delivered host broadcast facilities for friendly matches in Australia featuring
some of the biggest names in world football including Juventus, Liverpool and
Chelsea
AFRICA
• We have worked with the Confederation of African Football since 2017, providing host
broadcasting for international tournaments at both club and national level
• Facilitate challenging and complex live productions in numerous countries including
Burkino Faso, Togo, Liberia, Sudan and Senegal
• Produce highly-crafted videos and promos for use at CAF Award ceremonies and the
main draw events for the African Cup of Nations
UNITED STATES
• Our five-year relationship with MLS team LA Galaxy has seen us supply OB facilities
and rental equipment for the club’s live coverage of their away games
• Another long-standing partnership centres around coverage of the men’s and
women’s college games for the Pac-12 universities. We deliver up to 18 games per
season with the majority being produced using the REMI/At-home workflow
Copyright 2020 Gravity MediaADDITIONAL SERVICES
OUTSIDE BROADCASTS DIGITAL ARCHIVE SOLUTIONS
Our UK-based OB vehicle, Pictor, is an 18ft rigid unit Gravity Media operates a digital archive service that allows
designed with innovative production teams in mind. With sports rights holders and their chosen partners
capacity for 16 HD camera channels and two RFs, this simultaneous, remote access to secure archived content
multi-functional vehicle is specially designed for via a web browser. Powered by the EVS Media Archive
productions requiring high-powered broadcast facilities. Director (MAD), this service allows users to search, view
The three-tiered production area can accommodate a crew and deliver content in any format from any location.
of eight in air conditioned comfort, and offers the latest AV Content can be fully logged and is associated with detailed
equipment from Grass Valley, Calrec and EVS. and precise metadata to allow easy and intuitive search
and retrieval.
Pictor can support both traditional and remote
integration/ At-Home workflows and is perfect for Our archive services are currently used extensively by The
streamlined production teams to work on pre-season FA, Tottenham, Pitch International and the BBC as well as
friendlies or live streams of Academy and WSL games. clients from a number of other sports.
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Copyright 2020 Gravity MediaOUR BUSINESS
Gravity Media is a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators
and distributors.
We use the collective pull of our people and resources to create world-class content that inspires and excites.
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Facilities
• OB Trucks/mobile units • Live production facilities • Live event coverage • Broadcast equipment
• Flypacks • Post production facilities • Fast turnaround highlights rental
• Live workflow services • Presentation studios • On-air design & branding • Post-production equipment
rental
• Event Comms • Distribution • Digital content
• Live workflow equipment
• OB truck build • Facilities management • Social media engagement
rental
• Archive Services • Original content
• Specialist camera rental
• Permanent infrastructure • Production shoots
• Used equipment sales
build • Delivery
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Copyright 2020 Gravity MediaCONTACT DETAILS
GRAVITY MEDIA
The Production Centre
191a Askew Road
Chiswick
London
W12 9AX
United Kingdom
T: +44 20 8740 5222
Blair Wood, Head of Business Development
blair.wood@gravitymedia.com
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