Outside Broadcasts

We specialise in television Outside Broadcast work, primarily servicing the live sports markets, with music recording for DVD release (in High Definition) and large one-off annual live events. All these need an immense amount of technical and logistical expertise backed up by detailed planning and execution on the day.

Bow Tie television has built a reputation in the industry for having talented, well trained staff and always providing well-specified and well-maintained equipment. In the sports coverage world, we were the trusted OB provider of club coverage to five Premiership football clubs, of which the highlights were broadcast on Sky Sports for a number of seasons.

In December 2004 we were awarded the Sky Sports contract - Premier League Darts & Snooker. This has been a very successful experience for both Bow Tie and also Sky Sports, and has given us a thorough understanding of all aspects involved in televising the sport. We have recently renewed this contract and have just upgraded the coverage to High Definition with 5.1 DolbyE audio delivery.

We also have thorough understanding of the sport of boxing from our work with with Setanta Sports and Input Media. We have successfully completed two seasons of events across the country from many different venues, with the Calzaghe v Kessler title fight at the Millennium Stadium perceived as a great success, broadcast live to 92 countries world wide.

Other recent sports projects completed have been, "Table Tennis Masters" for Sky, "Cage Rage" a series of live events from Wembley Arena and Exhibition Tennis from Liverpool.

Bow Tie television has been involved with motor sport coverage for many years, in particular supplying technical crew, operators and occasionally facilities to Formula One Management (FOM). This is a long term relationship that we value highly and by agreement have a limited ability to publicise.

Since 2004 we have supplied large, 21 plus camera de-rigs, cable, staff and Engineering Manager for a number of GP2 races in Valencia and across the Middle East.

Further technical success was demonstrated when we facilitated the first ever 5.1 AC3 Theatrical Dolby surround sound transmissions live to 162 cinemas across North America and Canada of David Gilmore playing live in London and launching his new DVD. We have continued to excel in this field and are now the broadcast partner of the National Theatre - NTLive season, having completed the first live transmission of Phedre earlier in the year. We are working with them on the first season of live plays to cinemas accross the world in HD with 5.1 theatrical surround sound.