24 JUNE 2015
SUNSET+VINEAWARDEDICC WORLD TWENTY20 QUALIFIER 2015 HOST BROADCASTER CONTRACT
- 20 MATCHES AND HIGHLIGHTS PACKAGES DELIVERED AS PART OF WORLD FEED OFFER
- TOURNAMENT TAKES PLACE IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND FROM 9-26 JULY 2015
(London) Sunset+Vine, the multi-award winning UK independent TV sports production and media company, part of The Tinopolis Group, has been awarded the Host Broadcaster contract for the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015. The event takes place between 9-26 July and is being jointly hosted by Ireland and Scotland.
Twenty live matches, plus highlights programming, form part of a world feed package. Gary Franses will be Executive Producer, supported by Director Gavin Scovell and Producers Dyan Jane and Parijat Seth.
Live match coverage and highlight shows will follow the tempo of Twenty20 cricket with short and sharp player, coach and commentator insights to supplementing the coverage to engage and educate the viewer. There will be more analysis, making the coverage of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier more informative and contextual than ever before. Social media will also be used to support live coverage and vice versa.
Jeff Foulser, chairman of Sunset+Vine, commented:
“Experience, innovation, reliability and quality. That’s what the ICC has been assured by choosing Sunset+Vine to be its production partner for the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015."
“We recognise that covering this tournament is a vital step in promoting cricket to become a bigger and better global game and we have a responsibility to help expose cricket outside the traditional Test playing countries. Our editorial approach and live coverage will reflect this, while still telling the basic stories of the game: the tactics, the field settings, the mind- set of the captains and the idiosyncrasies of each player.”
Campbell Jamieson, General Manager – Commercial, at the International Cricket Council, added:
“The ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier is the culmination of regional qualification for the Associate and Affiliate teams. Having reached the global stage, it was important for ICC to highlight these members to their full potential and so, the WT20 Qualifier will focus on the players, build heroes and engage viewers, the world over.”
Sunset+Vine has a very strong cricket heritage. Between 1999 and 2005 it was instrumental in revolutionising how cricket coverage was seen on television, producing nearly 50 live Test matches, 65 one-day internationals and 348 highlights programmes for Channel 4 in the UK.
The company has won 26 major broadcast awards for its cricket coverage including five BAFTAs as well as introducing innovations such as the Red Zone, Snickometer, the Analyst, Hawk-Eye and the ultra slomo camera – award winners in their own right. Since 2006
Sunset+Vine has produced daily highlights of both the domestic Test series and One-Day Internationals for Channel Five.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
About ICC World T20 Qualifier 2015 The top six sides from the 18-day tournament during which 51 matches will be played, will join the 10 Full Members for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which will be held from 11 March to 3 April 2016. The sides that top the two groups will automatically qualify for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, while the sides that finish second and third in each of the two groups will play cross-over matches with the two winners joining the table-toppers for the India tournament.
The losing sides of the two play-off matches will then play the fourth-placed sides from each of the two groups in cross-over matches with the winners completing the 16-team line-up for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016. The fifth-sixth and third-fourth position play-offs as well as the final will be played on the last three days of the tournament based on which these teams’ seeding/groupings for the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 will be confirmed. Malahide in Dublin and The Grange in Edinburgh will be the two broadcast venues.
About SUNSET+VINE
Sunset+Vine is a leading independent supplier of sports programming to broadcasters in the UK and overseas. It has won over 40 broadcast awards including nine Royal Television Society awards and six BAFTAs most recently for “Best Sport and Live Event” in relation to its production of Channel 4’s ground-breaking coverage of The London 2012 Paralympic Games. The company is a primary production partner for BT Sport and now produces the channel’s live English Premier League Football and Aviva Premiership Rugby matches and all support programming. The company was Host Broadcaster of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and is currently host broadcaster for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015. In the Middle East, Sunset+Vine has been Host Broadcaster for the Dubai World Cup for 20 consecutive years. A leader in Advertiser Funded Programming, the company devised the world’s most watched weekly sports’ show “Gillette World Sport” (shown in 180 countries at its peak) which has recently been re-commissioned. Mobil 1 - The Grid is also amongst its extensive portfolio. The company is part of The Tinopolis Group.
About THE TINOPOLIS GROUP
The Tinopolis Group comprises 17 companies dedicated to the creation and global distribution of world-class content. It is one of the largest remaining independent television producers with significant business bases in London, Wales, Glasgow and LA, producing high quality content for all key networks in both the US and the UK and for a fast-growing stable of brands and agencies. Tinopolis produces and distributes over 2,500 hours of award-winning broadcast and online content, across seventeen companies. Tinopolis comprises some of the most respected names in the industry across the US and UK, including A. Smith and Co, Base Productions, Daybreak, Ffatti Ffilms, Firecracker Films, Magical Elves, Mentorn Media, Passion Distribution, Pioneer Productions, Rain, Sunset + Vine and Tinopolis Wales/Cymru. The group recognises the importance of technology in today’s media landscape and invests in solutions to bring added value to its content customers.
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