PRESS INFORMATION
1 DECEMBER 2015
SUNSET+VINE ON A ROLL WITH WORLD INDOOR PROFESSIONAL BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIPS WIN
- BBC AWARDS THREE YEAR PRODUCTION CONTRACT FOR LIVE COVERAGE AND HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMMING FOR 2016-2018
- “A STRONG ADDITION TO OUR LIVE SPORTS EVENT PORTFOLIO” (JEFF FOULSER, CHAIRMAN, SUNSET+VINE)
(Glasgow, UK) Sunset+Vine, the UK independent TV sports production and media company, and part of the Tinopolis Group, has been awarded a three-year contract by the BBC for the production of the World Indoor Professional Bowls Championships.
Under the terms of the contract Sunset+Vine will produce both live coverage and highlights programming of the world championships for the corporation from 2016 to 2018. The contract is a BBC Nations Production and will be run out of Sunset+Vine’s Glasgow office.
Jeff Foulser, chairman of Sunset+Vine, commented:
“We have a long history with bowls at Sunset+Vine and have covered the Scottish Bowls Championships for BBC Scotland for many years, as well as the Lawn Bowls at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The World Indoor Professional Bowls Championships are a strong addition to our live sports event portfolio and continues the great success being experienced by our Glasgow-based operation.”
The new contract follows the announcement in July that Sunset+Vine Glasgow had been awarded the production of some 50 hours of live broadcasts or highlights programming across five sports including Scottish Cup Highlights; Macaulay and Camanachd Cup Shinty Finals; Shinty/Hurling International Live; Melrose Rugby Sevens; Scottish International Bowls and the Scottish Curling Championships.
Coverage of the World Indoor Professional Bowls Championships begins on 18th Janaury 2016. The championships will be hosted at the Potters Leisure Resort In Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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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 nine 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 was appointed as primary production partner for BT Sport (launched August 2013) 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 as well as 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. http://www.tinopolis.com/
For further information on Tinopolis please contact:
Franklin Rae PR: Shereene Witter
T: +44(0) 203 011 1023
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