Montreux Jazz Festival Names Gravity Media as A/V Production Provider

Montreux Jazz Festival has announced a multi-year collaboration with Gravity Media, who will become the Festival's Audio Visual Production Provider following a proposal process for a 3+2-year agreement.

Gravity Media will work with Montreux Media Ventures (MMV), the Festival's audiovisual production arm, to deliver live and recorded coverage across the Festival's stages, platforms, and broadcast partners. Gravity Media succeeds RTS (Radio T l vision Suisse), the Swiss public broadcaster, which has worked with the Festival for the last five years and will remain a Festival partner.

2026 marks the 60th edition of the legendary festival, which has welcomed some of greatest artists of all time to the shores of Lake Geneva, from David Bowie and Prince to Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Quincy Jones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Kendrick Lamar, Nina Simone and many more.

MMV's production approach applies cinematographic techniques - movement, narrative progression, spatial depth, and colour grading - to live broadcast. The partnership will build on the Festival's existing technical model, including a UHD S-Log3 master workflow and real-time colour grading for broadcast delivery.

Gravity Media is deploying its Nova 105 outside broadcast vehicle in full IP delivery mode, configured across two stages within a single truck. The system supports P25 camera formats and wide-sensor camera workflows, including Sony Venice II integration. The agreement includes dedicated technical staffing.

Since 1967, the Montreux Jazz Festival has been a pioneer in technological and artistic innovation, says Nick Bonard, CEO of Montreux Media Ventures. Our new collaboration with Gravity Media builds on this legacy, enhancing our distinctive cinematic approach to live music production and taking the festival's world-class performances to new creative heights.

Gravity Media is widely recognised for delivering world-class sports coverage, but this iconic music event is another fantastic opportunity to showcase the breadth of our end-to-end media services and facilities capabilities, says Chris Demeulemeester, International Projects & Sales at Gravity Media. Large-scale live music productions demand the same precision, technical excellence and collaborative approach as major sporting events. Our team thrives on capturing the atmosphere, scale and emotion of these moments, and we're proud to bring our proven live broadcast capabilities to yet another landmark event on the global stage.

MMV will also begin producing monthly livestreams from its UNESCO-registered audiovisual collection. The series begins with Alanis Morissette: Live at Montreux (2012), with further performances to follow.

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