• Arqiva supports the broadcast efforts of PanAmSat, Can Communicate and Nippon TV across South America, Europe and North East Asia
• Satellite Media Solutions division providing a range of occasional video facilities including production, outside broadcast and global turnaround services
• Broadcasting to a combined global audience of over 50 million

As the FIFA World Cup tournament progresses through its knockout stages, Arqiva is providing a range of services, including occasional mobile, teleport and outside broadcasts, to enable the transmission of news and coverage from the tournament to a global audience. From the regular news updates from Arqiva's fleet of satellite news gathering (SNG) trucks keeping Japanese and Brazilian fans abreast of the tournament, to the distribution of video news releases (VNRs) across Europe from the Adidas World of Football in Berlin, Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division is complementing the efforts of Nippon TV (NTV), PanAmSat (PAS) and UK production company Can Communicate as they broadcast to a combined global audience of over 50 million.

Can Communicate is being provided with a fully equipped live production studio, enabling the production company  to facilitate live news broadcasts for Sky Italia from the Adidas World of Football in Berlin. Arqiva is also providing Can Communicate with an outside broadcast truck with flyaway uplink antenna to enable the distribution of VNRs from the football village. In addition, Arqiva is turning the signal for the Adidas VNRs around to Intelsat 901, Eutelsat W2, Asiasat 2 and PAS 3 for global coverage. With the constant stream of news emerging from the Adidas World of Football, Arqiva is handling anywhere between 2 and 15 transmissions for Can Communicate on each day of the tournament.

Arqiva is supplying PanAmSat with a production SNG truck as it follows Brazil's progress through the tournament in conjunction with Brazilian channel, TV Record. In the latest phase of a long working relationship with PanAmSat, Arqiva is currently supporting the satellite broadcast service provider with two full time engineers and uplinking services from Germany to Brazil on PAS-1R for the duration of the World Cup.

Arqiva is also working alongside Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV, providing uplink and occasional teleport services as NTV reports on the progress of the Japanese national team. While NTV gathers the news from their team's base in Bonn, Arqiva is turning the feed around for transmission to the Japanese viewing public.

"The World Cup is a fast-paced competition of intense global interest and our priority is to enable a rapid and reliable distribution of all the news from the tournament," commented Simon Thrush, Commercial Director of Broadcast Services at Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division. "Arqiva has the range of facilities and expertise to accommodate the needs of an international client base, faced with the task of satisfying the demands of a global audience and we remain committed to providing a service as varied and unrelenting as the tournament itself."