PRESS INFORMATION
20 OCTOBER 2016
SUNSET+VINE TV NEWS AWARDED AMERICA’S CUP TV NEWS CONTRACT
LONDON-BASED NEWS AGENCY APPOINTED FOR PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF NEWS FOR THE LOUIS VUITTON AMERICA’S CUP WORLD SERIES FUKUOKA AND THE 35TH AMERICA’S CUP IN BERMUDA, 2017
MANAGED BY A HIGHLY SEPCIALISED TEAM WITH EXTENSIVE INDUSTRY AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
(BERMUDA) Sunset+Vine TV News, a business unit of Sunset+Vine, the multi-award winning UK independent TV sports production and media company, part of The Tinopolis Group, has confirmed that it has been awarded the TV News Production and Distribution contract for the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Fukuoka and the 35th America’s Cup, taking place in Bermuda 2017. The contract, managed by a team with extensive international and specific sailing industry experience, will be led by Sabina MollartRogerson, Head of News.
Sunset+Vine TV News has territory and language distribution managers in all of the America’s Cup key markets including North America, the UK, Japan, France, Scandinavia, Germany, Australasia, South America, China, Spain and Italy. As part of the deliverables, the team will be on the ground Fukuoka, Japan, between 17-20 November 2016, delivering the news production and distribution service for the final event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series.
First contested in 1851, the America’s Cup is the oldest trophy in international sport, predating the modern Olympic Games by 45 years, and is yachting’s biggest prize. The blue ribbon event will be hosted in Bermuda during May and June 2017.
Sabina MollartRogerson, Head of News at Sunset+Vine TV News, said:
“We are delighted to have been appointed by the America’s Cup Event Authority to provide the news production and distribution service requirements for this most prestigious and famous international sporting event.
“Our team has a deep knowledge and passion for the America’s Cup, as well as unmatched experience in delivering an impactful and effective news service. Add to this our international network of news contacts - and we are in an extremely strong position to deliver major value to the event, the competing teams and their stakeholders.”
Dan Barnett, Chief Commercial Officer of the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA), the organizing body for the 35th America's Cup, added:
“The news component of the America’s Cup plays a vital role, not only in keeping sporting fans up to date with the latest developments in the 35th America’s Cup but also is enabling us to reach an ever-growing global audience with content delivered in their own languages. I am delighted that we have appointed such a well-connected and dedicated team on our news project for the 35th America’s Cup.”
Sunset+Vine has a long established pedigree in the sport of sailing and has enjoyed considerable success during 2016. It produced the Rio 2016 sailing coverage for the BBC; provided live host broadcast coverage and international news at the three ISAF 2016 Sailing World Cup regattas (creating a 52 minutes highlights show for each event in addition to news distribution); was commissioned to produce the ISAF’s monthly 26-minute programme series, The World Sailing Showas well as being re-commissioned by CNN to produce the long-running Mainsail series. Throughout 2016, Sunset+Vine continued its role as host broadcaster and programme series producer for the Extreme Sailing Series.
For international America’s Cup news enquiries please contact Sabina MollartRogerson (/ +44 7922 140148)
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Notes to Editors
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. It has recently been awarded both the ICC’s Live Events Production Services contract 2016-2019 and the ICC’s Non Live Programming contract for the same period.
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. 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, fFattifFilms, 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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