Mediapro will produce Madrid-Barça in 4K for global distribution

The Spanish league will be the first league in the world to be produced regularly with this new technology. A total of 22 cameras and more than 300 professionals will work to distribute the signal for the meeting.

Next Sunday, and for the first time in world football, 4K images of the Real Madrid-FC Barcelona match will be broadcast and will reach the entire world. Starting next season, the Professional Football League will be the first league in the world to be regularly produced using this technology.

Before the end of this season, Mediapro will offer the signal of other games with this technology that has an image quality 4 times higher than High Definition, with more than 8 million pixels of resolution and that had previously only been used in the Super Bowl.

Two cameras integrated into the 4K device will allow the most specific details of Madrid–Barça to be captured through a 'Super Zoom', providing the viewer with an augmented reality viewing experience.
Mediapro will also serve its clients with 4K highlights and will post match summaries on the La Liga channel. YouTube. The insertion of this new resolution standard highlights MEDIAPRO's commitment to participating in the evolution of digital television and offering the highest image resolution to viewers. A global MEDIAPRO project to strengthen the quality of broadcasts that will be regularized in the Liga BBVA next season.

A global match

This will be the first time that Fox Australia will personalize its signal from the Santiago Bernabéu in a match between these two teams to offer all the details and unpublished images to its viewers. The network will have several positions at the Santiago Bernabéu to establish connections before, during and after the match. One of your guests will be John Aloisi, former Atlético Osasuna and Deportivo Alavés player.

The signal of the match will reach the entire world and the main international networks have acquired the rights to the match to offer it to their viewers. In Europe: beIN Sports France, Sky Sports England, Sport1 Netherlands, Belgacom, FOX Italia, Sport TV Portugal, Canal + Poland, CMore Sweden, etc; in Asia: beIN Sports Arabic (Middle East), CCTV5 (China), Wowow (Japan), etc; in America: ESPN and Direct TV (South America), ESPN Brazil, Sky México, beIN Sports (United States); in Africa: Canal + Africa will cover the entire continent; FOX Australia will offer the match for Oceania. Large chains have requested the customization of the signal distributed by Mediapro.
ESPN Brazil, beIN Sports Arabic, beIN Sports USA, beIN Sports France, Direct TV, Canal + Poland, CMore Sweden and Canal + Africa will travel their teams to Madrid for pre- and post-match connections. Mediapro will also set up a device with 4 simultaneous live positions for those television stations with rights that want to make connections from the Santiago Bernabéu pitch in the pre- and post-match.

So that the match reaches all the countries in the world with the best quality, Mediapro has prepared a large operation in which more than 300 professionals, 5 mobile units, 5 DSNG's and a deployment of 22 cameras at the Santiago Bernabéu will participate.