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OUR FOOTBALL DNA A 30-YEAR PEDIGREE IN DELIVERING ELITE LEVEL FOOTBALL ON A GLOBAL SCALE

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Gravity Media is a brand-new company with a 30-year pedigree, formed by the coming together of our established broadcast and production houses including Input Media, Gearhouse Broadcast and HyperActiveBroadcast in Europe, along with Chief Entertainment in Australia. We are a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors.

Every day we operate within the top tier of world sport and, at the heart of our business, is a rich tradition of delivering high-end content and live production across the full spectrum of world football. From FIFA World Cups to UEFA’s elite club competitions, Premier League giants and the oldest cup competition in the world, The FA Cup, Gravity Media is always at the forefront of the action. The biggest names in football repeatedly trust us to deliver and our blue chip clients include UEFA, FIFA, The FA and Premier League clubs Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal along with major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Fox Sports and BT Sport.

We provide a wide range of services in football production including: • Live match/world feed production and fast turnaround highlights• Studio wraparounds for major tournaments and Premier League

matches• Big Screen production at some of the most iconic stadiums in sport

including Wembley, the Emirates and FIFA World Cup venues• High-end social media content creation for federations and clubs• Full production of International Programming Blocks for Premier

League clubs• OB Facilities and equipment hire for live match coverage• Digital Archive management and storage systems

We have worked with some of the biggest names in football for decades. Should you choose to partner with Gravity Media, this expertise, along with our state-of-the-art facilities in London and global network of offices, will all be at your disposal.

CAPTURE, CRAFT, CREATE


OUR CLIENTS


UEFACHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE MATCHNIGHT OPERATION• Long-standing relationship producing wide range of deliverables on Europe’s elite club competitions

• Every single UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League match from the Group Stages onwards is fed into our building and then distributed to rights holders around the world

• We provide match night monitoring and quality control, off-tube commentary of all games, the highly-acclaimed Instant Highlights Feed and multi-version highlights of each match

• Each match night, within 45 minutes of the last full-time, we deliver a ready-to-air highlights show for international distribution

• On Champions League Group Stage nights we have eight commentary booths, two live galleries, nine edit suites, a multifeedlogging area and a 14-person EVS highlights operation all running simultaneously

• On Europa League nights this expands further to facilitate 12 live commentaries running concurrently


FIFA WORLD CUPSEBIF AND BIG SCREENS SERVICES FOR HBS AT BRAZIL 2014 & RUSSIA 2018

• Gravity Media played a key role in the broadcast aspects of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia

• For both tournaments, we were contracted by HBS to produce the EBIF – Extended Basic International Feed

• Our producers have delivered EBIF programming around all 64 matches for the last two FIFA World Cups, from the opening match to the final – programming watched by billions around the world

• EBIF programming used a variety of feeds to create a fully-packaged wraparound feed for FIFA rights holders

• The full feed included bespoke pre-match features and fan colour along with post-match reaction and analysis

• Gravity Media also provided expert teams to produce the big screens Infotainment feeds at a number of venues in both Brazil and Russia

• Our producers followed strict FIFA protocols to help convey VAR decisions and ensure no controversial incidents were shown to those in attendance


THE FAPRODUCTION PARTNER FOR MORE THAN A DECADE

Gravity Media has been The FA’s production partner since 2008. We deliver a wide range of services across The FA Cup and the England Men’s and Women’s teams. These include:

• Live world feed coverage of FA Cup matches, with full commentary and a uniform graphics package, for international rights holders

• This year all 32 FA Cup Third Round matches were delivered as host broadcast world feeds

• A dedicated in-game digital clips service, generating 46 million views on The FA’s social media channels in its first year

• Traditional preview and highlights shows for international distribution

• Big screens production for Wembley Stadium across a variety of England matches and FA competitions

• Design of full graphics package and titles sequence for The FA Cup’s world feed provisions

• Live OB services for ad hoc requests such as England Women’s internationals and FA Youth Cup games


THE BBC AND WOMEN’S FOOTBALLLEADING THE WAY WITH COVERAGE OF FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUPS AND THE WSL

• Gravity Media has played a crucial role in growing the profile of Women’s Football in England

• BBC’s production partner for both the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cups in Canada and France

• Worked in partnership with The FA and broadcasters including the BBC, ESPN and BT Sport to produce the Women’s Football Show highlights show for eight years

• Provide live match OBs, wraparound studios for major tournaments, analysis-driven highlights shows or bespoke features across a wide variety of Women’s Football

• The 2019 Women’s World Cup in France was, in particular, one of the biggest projects we have ever delivered and showcased Gravity Media’s capabilities both in terms of planning/logistics and remote production

• As the BBC’s production partner, we provided roving production crews gathering content throughout France and pitchside presentation and commentary teams for the majority of games

• The whole project was remotely produced from our state-of-the-art facility in Manchester

• Ratings peaking at heights no one expected – 11.7million


PREMIER LEAGUEWRAPAROUND STUDIOS ON WEEKEND MATCHDAYS FOR MOLA TV

• Provide state-of-the-art four camera studio in West London to deliver up to four live Premier League games per weekend

• Programme includes world feed match coverage, punditry from a variety of former Premier League stars and on-site reporters

• Experienced production staff pull together detailed running orders for each show

• We also provide a bespoke graphics package that maximises the usage of statistical data and sponsor messaging

• Recently-installed UHD video wall allows a live feed of a beauty camera from different grounds to be displayed behind the studio guests to help capture the atmosphere at host stadiums

• Video wall also allows for easy location switches when presenting double-headers from different stadiums

• Our studio has also been used by a number of major broadcasters as part of their live football coverage and highlights programming

• Other projects include the 2015 Women’s World Cup and Women’s Football Show for the BBC, the Europa League Highlights Show for ITV and a Champions League instant highlights show for DAZN Canada


CLUB SERVICESLONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHELSEA, ARSENAL AND TOTTENHAM

• Dedicated production team at Stamford Bridge since 2002• Support live and post produced programming• Focus has now shifted towards helping deliver an

increasingly far-reaching digital content strategy• Provide match edits, complete with commentary and

graphics, for every first team match as part of Chelsea’sinternational programming block

• Our relationship with Arsenal stretches back more than 30 years and we have provided the club with a number of services in that time

• Consistent work has always been on big screen production, first at Highbury and now at the Emirates Stadium

• Provide production and technical staff as well as designing the full graphics package used on the screens

• Working in partnership with Pitch International, we produceTottenham’s international programming block

• Manage and store the club’s digital archive• Supply the design and integration of full graphics packages

for full match and highlights edits• Produced the big screens during their recent relocation to

Wembley


GLOBAL EXPERIENCEWE HAVE DELIVERED ELITE LEVEL FOOTBALL FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE

AUSTRALIA• 2015 AFC Asian Cup – we provided host broadcast delivery of 32 matches of football

across 5 venues in one month• Extensive work on domestic football in Australia, providing facilities for Fox Sports’

coverage of the A-League• We have delivered host broadcast facilities for friendly matches in Australia featuring

some of the biggest names in world football including Juventus, Liverpool and Chelsea

AFRICA• We have worked with the Confederation of African Football since 2017, providing host

broadcasting for international tournaments at both club and national level• Facilitate challenging and complex live productions in numerous countries including

Burkino Faso, Togo, Liberia, Sudan and Senegal• Produce highly-crafted videos and promos for use at CAF Award ceremonies and the

main draw events for the African Cup of Nations

UNITED STATES• Our five-year relationship with MLS team LA Galaxy has seen us supply OB facilities

and rental equipment for the club’s live coverage of their away games• Another long-standing partnership centres around coverage of the men’s and

women’s college games for the Pac-12 universities. We deliver up to 18 games per season with the majority being produced using the REMI/At-home workflow


ADDITIONAL SERVICESOur UK-based OB vehicle, Pictor, is an 18ft rigid unit designed with innovative production teams in mind. With capacity for 16 HD camera channels and two RFs, this multi-functional vehicle is specially designed for productions requiring high-powered broadcast facilities. The three-tiered production area can accommodate a crew of eight in air conditioned comfort, and offers the latest AV equipment from Grass Valley, Calrec and EVS.

Pictor can support both traditional and remote integration/ At-Home workflows and is perfect for streamlined production teams to work on pre-season friendlies or live streams of Academy and WSL games.

OUTSIDE BROADCASTS DIGITAL ARCHIVE SOLUTIONSGravity Media operates a digital archive service that allows sports rights holders and their chosen partners simultaneous, remote access to secure archived content via a web browser. Powered by the EVS Media Archive Director (MAD), this service allows users to search, view and deliver content in any format from any location. Content can be fully logged and is associated with detailed and precise metadata to allow easy and intuitive search and retrieval.

Our archive services are currently used extensively by The FA, Tottenham, Pitch International and the BBC as well as clients from a number of other sports.

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WHERE WE’RE BASED AND WHERE WE OPERATE

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AustraliaSydney | Melbourne+61 2 9313 3100


OUR BUSINESS

Outside Broadcast

Broadcast & Production Facilities

Production & Content

Equipment Rental & Sales

• OB Trucks/mobile units• Flypacks• Live workflow services• Event Comms• OB truck build

• Broadcast equipmentrental

• Post-production equipmentrental

• Live workflow equipmentrental

• Specialist camera rental• Used equipment sales

• Live event coverage• Fast turnaround highlights• On-air design & branding• Digital content• Social media engagement• Original content• Production shoots• Delivery

• Live production facilities• Post production facilities• Presentation studios• Distribution• Facilities management• Archive Services• Permanent infrastructure

build

Host Broadcasting Production Facilities Provision Remote Production Technical Operations

Centres

Gravity Media is a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors.

We use the collective pull of our people and resources to create world-class content that inspires and excites.


CONTACT DETAILS

GRAVITY MEDIAThe Production Centre191a Askew RoadChiswickLondonW12 9AXUnited Kingdom

T: +44 20 8740 5222

Blair Wood, Head of Business [email protected]

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WE EXIST TO CREATE

WORLD-CLASS CONTENT

THAT INSPIRES AND EXCITES

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