European Football Championship 2008 / International Broadcast Center
The International Broadcast Center (IBC) (German: International Broadcast Center) of the UEFA European Football Championship 2008 in Vienna was the central processing point for the picture and sound of all eight venues. The IBC served as the central media center in which all television signals from all EM stadiums in Switzerland and Austria were converged, processed in the master control room and then distributed around the world. The IBC was operated by UEFA Media Technologies SA (UMET), a wholly-owned subsidiary of UEFA, which also had overall responsibility for television broadcasting of EURO 2008; Alexandre Fourtoy was the managing director.
For the first time, UEFA produced the TV signal for the worldwide broadcast of a European championship and thus retained control over this "standard signal " , which shortly afterwards led to criticism and censorship allegations by national television companies - for example Swiss television or the Austrian ORF . led.
The IBC was housed on around 10,000 square meters in the Messe Wien buildings and was opened by UEFA President Michel Platini on June 3rd.
The IBC hit the headlines especially in the semi-final game Germany-Turkey , when thunderstorm-related power fluctuations in the millisecond range and a faulty emergency power supply meant that there was no TV signal from the game for up to 18 minutes worldwide, with the exception of Switzerland. The managing director of UEFA Media Technologies explained the next day that the computers in the master control room in the IBC shut down with each of these brief power fluctuations and had to be restarted first, each time taking several minutes. National television broadcasters like ZDF criticized the fact that UEFA had guaranteed them an uninterruptible power supply for the IBC and reserved the right to take legal action. As in the 2006 World Cup , the company Host Broadcast Services (HBS) was responsible for the power supply .
Web links
- Telekom Austria is building huge infrastructure for EURO 2008 on November 16, 2007
- heise online - Severe weather revealed weaknesses in the network of the European Football Championship on June 26, 2008
- welt.de- Interview with UEFA Media Technologies Managing Director Alexandre Fourtoy on June 26, 2008
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- ↑ Vienna: Official opening of the International Broadcast Center (IBC) for the UEFA Euro 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 3, 2008
- ↑ Platini opens IBC in Vienna ( Memento from March 6, 2010 on WebCite ) from June 3, 2008 (in the WebCite archive)
- ↑ Power failure causes picture disturbance - transmission of the EM semi-finals Europe-wide impaired ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. zdf.de from June 25, 2008
- ↑ Unimaginable failure ( memento from March 6, 2010 on WebCite ) on sport.orf.at (in the WebCite archive)
- ↑ Image disturbance at ZDF on focus.de
