Cases Event Player for major sporting events

The SRG pays a lot of money for the rights to major sporting events and wants to provide the best possible service to its audience. However, linear television has its limits, unlike the web, where a lot more content can be broadcast in parallel and with additional content.

Background

In Switzerland, there is a lot of interest in sporting events on the part of the population. Not all of the content recorded can be transmitted in full on TV. Online or web TV is becoming increasingly important as a TV channel. Mobile and time-delayed consumption of content is becoming ever more popular.

Implementation

The role of SWISS TXT was that of a general contractor that coordinated all of the parties involved. Collaboration with the linguistic regions consisted of the following activities: requirements management, user experience design, technical architecture, development of web, mobile and Smart-TV/HbbTV application incl. video player, cloud hosting of the solution, distribution of video streams and 24/7 support during the event.

Result

With Event Player, a state-of-the-art Web TV solution has been created for major sporting events, which has won many fans thanks to its high degree of availability, scalability and reusability.