Live music with LiveTouch, at the Isle of Wight Festival

The Isle of Wight Festival celebrates its 21st festival this week, but for The Collectv it’s the first time we have worked on a festival in UHD using LiveTouch systems. Working with CTV, The Collectv are proud to be supplying and supporting a fully integrated LiveTouch system for their broadcast. We’re very excited to be using Grass Valley’s impressive replay system, with its fantastic built in timeline editor, allowing for advanced features and edits all within one box.

RACE WEEKEND - FORMULA 1 MONACO GRAND PRIX 2019

Since our last update at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, The Collectv has been hard at work providing equipment and technical support for the Cricket International’s in Cardiff alongside CTV Outside Broadcasts. We are also excited to be on location at the French Tennis Open this weekend with NBC, assisting with data and connectivity between Paris and Connecticut.

Back to Formula 1, another Collectv team is in Monte Carlo for the sixth round of the 2019 Formula 1 season, for coverage of The Monaco Grand Prix. Our team is at the track assisting with technical support and providing media management.

Lewis Hamilton has set the fastest lap of both first and second practice on this tight and challenging street circuit, followed closely by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in first practice and teammate Valtteri Bottas in second practice. Mercedes are looking ready to continue their winning streak on Sunday if Red Bull and Ferrari are still off the pace in qualifying.

RACE WEEKEND - FORMULA 1 SOCAR AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2019

This weekend in Azerbaijan, Baku City Circuit hosts the fourth leg of the 2019 Formula 1 season and our teams are there providing a range of solutions including flyaway systems, technical support and media management. At this race, we are working with several broadcasters including Formula One Management, to ensure a safe and secure backup and import of media.

Baku has quickly built up a profile as a dramatic track since its debut in 2016 and is set to continue this on Sunday. Practice 1 has already been abandoned due to a loose manhole cover, possibly caused by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari, causing significant damage to the chassis of Williams driver George Russell’s FW42 car.

F1 Drive to Survive with Box to Box and The Collectv

The Collectv had the great pleasure of working with Box to Box Films on their 10-part series, throughout the 2018 Formula One season, which is released on Netflix’s platform around the globe today, March 8th 2019.

Providing on location DIT facilities and ensuring the safety, security and backup of the rushes around the globe, The Collectv managed an enormous amount of data, with production shooting in amazing 4K quality and with numerous audio systems to capture action never shown before.

In-house technical manager Simon Tomkinson was technical lead, which involved designing and building a bespoke system, suitable for being flown around the world and enduring numerous different climates. Ensuring the workflow and equipment was efficient and powerful, with redundancy built in, to deal with the high data rates, was crucial to turning the media around within the constraints of the F1 schedule.

ITV's ratings heat up as Dancing On Ice returns

ITV’s much-loved skating show Dancing On Ice has launched with big viewing figures and The Collectv are proud to be supporting the production on location at their custom-built facility.  Our team of Engineers and Media Managers have installed and are supporting Avid Nexis storage systems and EVS integration, whilst managing the exchange of media back to the main edit facility in London.  The series runs for 10-weeks and The Collectv will be there for the duration.