Eurovision chooses Haivision Hub to broadcast the European Aquatic Championships 2021

Haivision Hub will be utilized by Eurovision Sport to produce coverage of the 2021 European Aquatic Championships (Budapest, May 10-23).

Eurovision Sport will incorporate Haivision’s tool into its workflow to provide multiple real-time video feeds to broadcasters across Europe. Both Haivision Makito X encoders and decoders, as well as the Haivision Hub, are supported by the SRT streaming protocol.

Haivision Hub is a video network service that provides an on-demand solution for transporting live IP video feeds from video encoders at event locations to production resources on-premise or in the cloud. By enabling end-to-end live IP video routing, Haivision Hub is able to centralize the management of live contribution workflows.

Custom feeds

Using Haivision Hub, Eurovision will be able to produce the championship remotely by tailoring live content for each market’s audiences. To enable these workflows, multiple isolated feeds along with the main production feed will be sent from headquarters via the global Eurovision network and the Haivision Hub to national broadcasters. This will give broadcasters the possibility to create their own customized programming. In this way, they will have the opportunity to include interviews with the top athletes from their respective countries, for example.

Franck Choquard, Head of Content and Platforms for Eurovision Sport at the EBU, highlights the flexibility of the Haivision tool: “The beauty of the Haivision Hub cloud solution integrated within the unique broadcast services delivered through our network, is that it offers our EBU broadcasters flexibility to do more interviews and create more custom feeds to meet increasing demand for tailored content without staff having to travel to the sports venue.”

Miguel Serrano, Haivision’s Senior Vice President of Cloud, adds, “The SRT technology in Haivision solutions makes it possible to send the lowest latency and highest quality video contribution and integrated feeds over public internet connections, reducing the cost of creating additional programming and coverage of the events. Haivision Hub is a powerful contribution platform that gives broadcasters the flexibility they need to cover live events wherever they are taking place.”