Timeline TV and IMG Media are following their logging and archive partnership for the host coverage of Wimbledon with a similar workflow for the BBC’s coverage of the Open Golf Championship later this month.

SIS LIVE is providing the host broadcast on behalf of BBC Sport and international broadcasters, ringing the course with 54 cameras, mainly Sony HDC1500s and including a high speed X-Mo plus 8 handheld RF units.

It will lay some 70 kilometres of cable, supply 16 production vehicles, uplink and support in a 20,000 sq m broadcast compound, and record around 600 hours of HD 1080i video to 16 EVS machines.

That footage will also be accessible to Timeline’s logging specialists. They will tag the feeds on 20 IP Director systems combining statistical information about