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Centre Court in prep for the first match of the day

Behind the Scenes: Wimbledon 2023

The Championships, Wimbledon 2023 may feature more UHD and High Dynamic Range coverage than ever this year but it’s the volley of editorial firepower being served up that is the real story of the Championship’s technical production, writes Adrian Pennington.

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5G: Transforming media and entertainment

5G in broadcast: 5G TV online

5G is one of the hottest topics in broadcasting and, for the media and entertainment sector, the technology will prove to be transformative.

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(L-R): Alison Howe, Emily Eavis, Lorna Clarke (BBC Director of Music), and Lauren Laverne at Glastonbury 2022

Behind the Scenes: Glastonbury 2023

BBC Studios executives explain to Adrian Pennington how they brought a “a chunk of British summer” from a field in England to audiences across radio, TV and iPlayer.

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Behind the Scenes: Kandahar

A Gerard Butler action movie is the first Hollywood production to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first to shoot in the country’s majestic, barren and hitherto off-limits AlUla region, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Behind the Scenes: Eurovision 2023

Speed dates, strict monitoring bubbles, world-first lighting effects and a stage that resembles a giant hug – welcome to the team embracing Eurovision 2023 from the heart of Liverpool to the soul of Ukraine. Adrian Pennington reports.

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Behind the Scenes: Blue Lights

The ‘anti-Line of Duty’, Blue Lights is a gritty cop drama set in Belfast, but with plenty more to it than initially meets the eye, writes Adrian Pennington.

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MSG Entertainment proposes a new entertainment medium, the ’MSG Sphere’ in London

MSG Sphere: Not only in Vegas

Immersive experience venues are changing the face of live events and the Madison Square Garden Sphere aims to top the lot by creating a new entertainment medium, writes Adrian Pennington

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The evolution of 8K, also known as UHDTV-2

8K TV: The current state of play

2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the first significant public demonstration of 8K television when NHK and the BBC co-operated to present the London Olympic Games on 15-meter-wide screens in London, Glasgow, and Bradford, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.

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