Gearhouse Broadcast deliver African Football Flyaway solutions for SuperSport

The pan African sports channel SuperSport has contracted Gearhouse Broadcast to build three Flyaway systems to cover domestic football leagues in a number of African countries to be carried on Africa’s leading pay television platform DStv.

DStv is a pay television offering from MultiChoice which has over 2 million subscribers in Sub Sahara Africa.  The SuperSport channels are Africa’s best known channels for their quality and variety of sports coverage.  SuperSport have made extensive investments in football rights in Kenya, Angola, Nigeria and Zambia,  and the purchase the appropriate broadcast equipment to deliver quality football coverage made in Africa for Africa. Following a complex and involved tender process Gearhouse Broadcast won the contract and is providing its unique flyaway production monitor stack solutions. 

"Gearhouse Flyaway's are the perfect solution for SuperSport's needs being portable production units which are housed in flight cases and so easily transportable" explained Eamonn Dowdall, Managing Director at Gearhouse Broadcast. The production units have to be flown around Africa.. Dowdall continues "a major factor in securing the contract was Gearhouse's ability to supply a loan flyaway within less than a week's time demonstrating the company's flexibility."

The Flyaway units contain an 8-camera system made up of Sony BVP E30s cameras, a Sony DVS 9000 vision mixer, Teletest rack mount monitors, Harris Inscriber G1 graphics, 2 x 6 Channel SD EVS XT2, Harris glue, Pro-Bel router, RTS/Telex comms system, Yamaha mixing desk and Glensound commentary units and a mixture of new and used Canon lenses.

Head of SuperSport production for Africa Andre Venter said “This new equipment allows us to ensure high quality broadcasts in all our territories that SuperSport has made major investments in, we wanted to show the world that Africa are capable of producing high quality productions that are on a par with any broadcasters across the globe.
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