Supercars Media and EMG / Gravity Media, the leading force in production and content, media services and facilities, today confirmed details for the all-encompassing all-screens coverage of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000.
This is the twelfth year for EMG / Gravity Media Australia's broadcast facilities and technology collaboration with Supercars Media which produces the global and Australian television coverage of The Great Race.
Across more than 175 television cameras on-track, in-car, in the pits, around the track, embedded in concrete kerbs and walls, in the air and across sections of the track on a wire, and accessing four state of the art high definition outside broadcast trucks, speciality in-car camera technology designed and developed by EMG / Gravity Media Australia, 52 kilometres of broadcast cable and a total production crew of more than 250, EMG / Gravity Media Australia and Supercars Media will capture every moment on Fox Sports, Kayo Sports, the Seven Network and 7plus across 10-13 October.
In addition, coverage of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000 will be broadcast around the world via Supercars' international broadcast partners.
Coverage of the Repco Bathurst 1000 has expanded dramatically over the years. The first race saw three television cameras cover the event in 1963. The first pit-lane portable camera coverage and use of on-screen computer lap-scoring was unveiled in 1969. The first live helicopter coverage was deployed in 1977. The first live in-car camera coverage was delivered in 1979.
Nathan Prendergast, Head of Broadcast, Supercars Media, said:
Supercars is pleased to once again be working with EMG Gravity Media Australia at the Repco Bathurst 1000. Our coverage in 2024 expands to five days on-air with the action beginning Wednesday night with a live show from downtown Bathurst to capture all 26 cars driving into the city from the famous Mt Panorama Circuit along with the finals of the Pirtek Pitstop Challenge. The on-track action starts from 7:30am Thursday and carries through right the way through to the end of the 1000 classic on Sunday, delivering more than 42 hours of coverage from the Mountain.
Ben Madgwick, Director, Media Services and Facilities at EMG / Gravity Media Australia said:
All of us at EMG / Gravity Media Australia take great pride in our partnership with Supercars Media. It is the biggest and most complex undertaking in broadcast production in Australia. We are committed to continuing to evolve, innovate and enhance EMG / Gravity Media's broadcast technologies and production undertakings to capture every moment of this remarkable event.
Key production details for television coverage of the Repco Bathurst 1000:
Ten production trucks, including four high definition outside broadcast trucks driving the overall television production.
More than 175 cameras across the track, in the pits, in and across cars, on driver helmets, mounted in race walls and track kerbs, including portable and specialty extreme super slo-mo cameras and live helicopter coverage.
52 kilometres of television production cable and fibre, enough to lap the circuit more than eight times.
Broadcast and production team of more than 250 across Gravity Media and Supercars Media.
In addition to the broadcast partnership with Supercars Media, EMG / Gravity Media also provides the technology and systems for Supercars' team radios, along with isolated camera coverage for the EMG / Gravity Media Australia developed and bespoke Gravity Review System, used by the motorsports judiciary and race control in the management of every on-track moment in the Repco Bathurst 1000 and across every race in the Repco Supercars Championship.
EMG / Gravity Media Australia has a long partnership with Supercars Media in the television production of each of the rounds in the Repco Supercars Championship, including Gravity Media's acknowledged speciality and in-car camera technologies.
EMG / Gravity Media Australia's Globecam unit is renowned for creating ground-breaking, high-definition digital miniature live broadcast devices that entertain and engage viewers all over the world with footage captured from exciting new angles and perspectives.
Globecam is behind a number of world-first innovations, including speciality in-car camera technologies for the Supercars Championship in Australia, HelmetCam and UmpireCam which are now a key component of cricket coverage, the NetCam tennis solution which has been used at all four Grand Slams since its launch in 2018, and the Live JockeyCam which has been beaming horse racing images around Australia since 2019. Globecam sporting applications now span tennis, cricket, rugby, motorsport, cycling, horse racing, golf, athletics and sailing.
The partnership with Supercars Media for the Repco Bathurst 1000, the Repco Supercars Championship and the Bathurst 12 Hour builds on EMG / Gravity Media Australia's acknowledged broadcast technology and production partnerships across major sports in Australia include the Australian Open and the Summer of Tennis, the Melbourne Cup and all major horse racing events in Australia, the Perth International Football Cup, a broadcast and technology partnership with Australian Professional Leagues for the A-Leagues Football, the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Sydney, the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, the Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans Road Race, the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Stawell Gift, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Melbourne, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the Adelaide Equestrian Festival, Crankworx Cairns, the UCI MTB World Championships, the UCI BMX Racing World Cup, the FIM World Supercross Championship, the BMX Racing World Cup in Brisbane, and the delivery of broadcast and production technology requirements for coverage of the rapidly expandi
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Supercars Media and EMG / Gravity Media, the leading force in production and content, media services and facilities, today confirmed details for the all-encompassing all-screens coverage of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000. 
