PRESS RELEASE DRAFT
15 September 2017
IT’S A HAT-TRICK AS SUNSET+VINE WINS WOMEN’S FIFA WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS 2019 AND WOMEN’S FA CUP FINAL 2018
- BBC AWARDS PRODUCTION CONTRACT FOR LIVE COVERAGE OF ENGLAND’S HOME MATCHES IN A MAJOR QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT FOR A THIRD TIME
- ENGLAND’S FOUR-GAME HOME QUALIFIER COVERAGE TO BE PRESENTED BY GABBY LOGAN WITH ALEX SCOTT, RACHEL BROWN-FINNIS AND KELLY SMITH JOINING FOR THE FIRST GAME
- SSE WOMEN’S FA CUP FINAL ALSO INCLUDED IN DEAL FOR FIFTH TIME IN A ROW
- FIRST ENGLAND QUALIFIER SCHEDULED FOR 19TH SEPTEMBER 2017 vs RUSSIA
(London) Sunset+Vine, the UK-based TV broadcast and digital sports production and media company, which is part of the Tinopolis Group, has been awarded a five game contract by the BBC: the England Women’s four home matches in the FIFA World Cup 2019 Qualifiers, and the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final 2018 at Wembley.
This is the third successive award to Sunset+Vine to produce the England Women’s home games in a major tournament qualifying series following on the 2017 Euro Qualifying and Women’s FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 2015. It will also be the fifth year in a row that Sunset+Vine produces the FA’s showpiece event in women’s football for the corporation.
Under the terms of the contract, Sunset+Vine’s Scotland office will produce live coverage for England’s matches, starting with the game against Russia on 19th September, as well as the production and presentation for the Women’s FA Cup Final 2018. The BBC’s coverage for the qualifiers will be hosted by Gabby Logan who will be joined by ex-England Women’s International and current Arsenal defender Alex Scott and former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis as well as England legend Kelly Smith for the first game, which will see England play Russia.
Sunset+Vine’s production will be led by Sarah Greene and will be supported by a team that delivers Premier League, Europa League and SPFL for BT Sport as well as Scottish football for the BBC and BT Sport. The live coverage will be produced by Amy Thabet from Sunset+Vine’s Scotland office.
Sarah Greene, Executive Producer at Sunset+Vine, said;
“We’re celebrating a hat-trick of BBC Sport productions across Women’s World Cup and Euro qualifiers, topped off with five-in-row with the Women’s FA Cup. We are delighted to be working together again and to continue our close association with their coverage of women’s football.
“It’s a testament not only to the rising popularity of women’s football, but also the competencies we possess across big live sports productions, football, in general, and elevating the televising of women’s sports to best-in-class. We relish this opportunity once again to play our part in broadening the appeal of the game.”
The announcement follows Sunset+Vine’s hugely successful production of the ICC Women’s World Cup cricket in the summer of 2017, the final of which attracted the highest ever viewing figures for a women’s cricket match in the UK.
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Notes to Editors
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 ten Royal Television Society awards and six BAFTA’s 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.
Sunset+Vine is the primary production partner for BT Sport producing 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 as well as for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015. It was awarded the ICC’s Live Events Production Services contract 2016-2019 and has, to date, produced the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2016;ICC Champions Trophy 2017 and ICC Women’s World Cup 2017.
In addition to covering large scale live sport events, Sunset+Vine has an impressive portfolio of magazine studio shows and branded content, allowing viewers to dive deeper into the sports they love – ranging from the world’s most watched weekly sports’ show, Gillette World Sport, to Mobil 1 The Grid. In the digital space, Sunset+Vine’s ongoing production partnerships include the ECB, Youth Olympic Games, FIE, MCC, The Kennel Club, Henley Royal Regatta and Aston Villa Football Club.
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. Tinopolisproduces 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. http://www.tinopolis.com
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