Gravity Media, once again responsible for the broadcast production of the Australian Open

Tennis Australia, organization behind the Australian Open, revalidates its confidence in Gravity Media, a company that has been offering production services to the grand slam for the last 19 years.

2023 marks the ninth year of Gravity Media as a technology and broadcasting solutions partner of Tennis Australia for him Open the Australia in Melbourne, as well as the 19th as a technical solutions provider broadcast for the entire event, emphasize Kevin Moorhouse, advisor to the production services company: “In 2005 we offered our first complete technical solution for the broadcast of the Australian Open. Our role and the needs of Tennis Australia have evolved enormously over the last 19 years, and this year's is the largest and most complex operation we have undertaken.”

For the 2023 edition of the event, Gravity Media is creating and managing coverage in 1080i, 1080p y UHD on multiple tracks distributed throughout the entire Melbourne venue. 165 cameras are distributed throughout the entire premises, including a significant number of HDC 3500/4300 of Sony, in addition to various robotic solutions Sony P43, Hitachi DKH 200 y Panasonic with PTZF heads Mark Roberts. Likewise, the venue has multiple receiving nodes that allow 16 RF cameras Roving cameras work anywhere in the venue, plus two remote RF robotic cameras offering wider views of Melbourne.

The signals reach the facilities located at Tennis Australia's own headquarters, which include seven production galleries with panels Priest Maverick of Grass Valley and six audio control rooms with audio consoles Calrec Artemis. Gravity Media is also using 10 mixing systems ViBox of Simplylive to provide coverage to the ten outer courts. To achieve system connectivity, Gravity Media is using a large “fly away” system based on IP with a level of baseband systems to provide a system that is effectively a 3900 x 3500 video router. An integrated audio solution between Audio Live and Calrec cores provides the ability to route over 2,500 audio signals within the facility.

All repetitions in slow motion, in addition to the archiving and media management, are achieved using 25 servers EVS, 52 IPD EVS, 16 XT Access, 3 X Files and 4 DB servers. During any game day, Gravity Media broadcasts between 25 and 45 sequences to the 900 Tb of on-site storage, allowing the host and broadcasters immediate access to all the action.

In the run-up to the Australian Open, Gravity Media also helped Tennis Australia provide production services for the mixed team tournament United Cup in its inaugural year, as well as for the veteran Adelaide International.

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