Swiss sport in all its variety
SRG sport results centre

BACKGROUND

Down-to-the-second sport results and video content (video streaming, live streaming, VoD) pose great challenges for the infrastructure. The three TV channels SRF, RTS and RSI decided to develop a joint national sport results centre.

• SRG SSR offers a comprehensive online sport results service that needs to be published 24/7, quickly and technically reliably on SRG's various online products.
• This requires a high-performance publishing platform that permits sport editors to report about sport efficiently and reliably.

OBJECTIVES / REQUIREMENTS

• Near real-time: only seconds may pass between entry / event and publication.
• Lean process, little work, high degree of automation.
• Manual intervention must be possible (e.g. disqualification, point deduction, change in ranking).
• Broad channel coverage (as at August 2015).

Tennis results updated on screen.

Here is an overview of the products available in conjunction with the sport results centre:

• Live-Center
• Website
• Mobile website m.srf.ch and SRF iApp "SRF" for smartphones
• SRF iApp "SRF" for tablets
• HbbTV SRF+
• Teletext SRF
• SMS

• LiveCenter
• Website
• RTS iApp "RTSsport" for smartphones
• HbbTV RTS+
• Teletext RTS
• SMS

• LiveCenter
• Website
• HbbTV RSI+
• Teletext RSI
• SMS

CHALLENGES

• Project management: Regional differences between the SRG units (culture, priorities, products, processes, technology).
• Requirements: channel diversity and flexibility in real time, i.e. high performance and a high degree of automation.
• Organization: The games take place in the evening and on weekends > ensure system availability and support outside of office hours.
• Operation: sport associations change their game modes / rules from one year to the next which frequently affects the platform too.

The results are published immediately.

SOLUTION

• Develop a separate editing and publication platform for online sport reporting.
• Publish on more than 20 channels (websites, mobile apps, news tickers, TV apps) in real time.
• Cover approx. 70 different sport types and leagues with their own game modes.
• Manage all the relevant sport types and leagues and their information, such as clubs, players, classifications, results, events, news.

• Fully automated publication of basic information such as results, goals -> take the pressure off news studios completely.
• Life cycle management of data. SWISS TXT monitors sporting events and passes on all content (e.g. start of season, player transfers, disqualifications).
• A modular, technically flexible platform for connecting data sources and new output channels.

Live results.

BENEFITS

• Up-to-date and reliable sport information for customers.
• Little work required / more time available in news studios thanks to automation.
• Predictable costs when new channels are connected (e.g. HbbTV).

Euro 2016 update

• More ways for users to follow the action.
• Switch camera perspectives in the live stream: tactical view, follower camera, etc.
• Multi-angle replays of key scenes as video on demand.
• Extended information provides an overview of the entire tournament, e.g. statistics, team details and game schedule.
  
  

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