
L' quipe transmits live from the field with TVU NetworksFor Maxime Bidan, newsroom operator, L'Equipe, TVU is simply the most intuitive and easy to use. We take control of the equipment remotely, freeing the journalist of any technical constraints. He particularly appreciates the ability to modify the delay within TVU equipment: This option, which is only available on TVU solutions, provides us with better video quality, especially in difficult environments with limited, congested or a fluctuating cellular network.
View Related Products
It's been nine years since L'Equipe, the most popular sports newspaper in France, began using video transmitters that can aggregate cellular lines.
Sports and news executive management imagined that these new transmission solutions would decrease the need for SNG vehicles, says Patrick Vautier, technical director, L'Equipe That it would be enough to leave with a camera, a small bag and a cable.
Vautier notes that even though the cellular video transmitters were a small revolution in 2010, it was necessary to roll with the punches when using these solutions as 3G's prevalence and its saturated MMS networks made the task difficult, both for live broadcasting and for routing images. We quickly understood at that time that the successful trials were far from the expected results during and after the games, so it was necessary to find countermeasures, such as preparing enough batteries to avoid getting disconnected, he recalls.
News reporters often went into the field without a team. Early on, the technology did not allow the solo reporter to overcome potential technical problems even if the connection procedures were greatly simplified, states Vautier.
For the technical direction of the station, it was important not to depend on a single system: That's why we quickly chose to add a second solution to L'Equipe's journalists: TVU Networks, notes Vautier, We started deploying TVU Networks in 2012, as soon as L' quipe TV became L' quipe 21 for digital news, which became L' quipe in 2016.
Meanwhile, 4G LTE cellular networks have been on the rise, the size of the packs has been reduced especially with the TVU One TM1000 and network connections have become more reliable and simplified. TVU products are now part of our journalist's daily life. After mastering this new way of working, we are now able to transmit 6 Mbps in HD quality, while significantly reducing contribution costs.
Today, in the newsroom, there are four TVU feeds (two per server) and two other feeds from its competitor, that we use every day, says Jean-Guy Blum, audiovisual and computer maintenance technician, L'Equipe.
For Maxime Bidan, newsroom operator, L'Equipe, TVU is simply the most intuitive and easy to use. We take control of the equipment remotely, freeing the journalist of any technical constraints. He particularly appreciates the ability to modify the delay within TVU equipment: This option, which is only available on TVU solutions, provides us with better video quality, especially in difficult environments with limited, congested or a fluctuating cellular network.
The journalists' satisfaction continues to grow as TVU solutions continue to improve, particularly operations in congested environments. L' quipe started using TVU One as soon as it was released, which allowed us to improve in compactness, lightness and efficiency in the field with built-in batteries, says Blum.
Our next evolution will undoubtedly be the transition to the TVU One with HEVC, adds Patrick Vautier. HEVC consumes less energy and therefore less data without compromising quality. It provides autonomy to the user.
In the field, we have become used to working with several sets of SIM cards, says Blum. Mobile operators Orange, SFR and Bouygues for France; Orange and Vodafone for Europe; and 3HK cards for the rest of the world.
This strategy allows us to be ready for nearly 85% of the situations we encounter, says Vautier. In order to mitigate the unfortunate hazards of cellular networks, such as different frequencies from the rest of the world, we rent additional TVU units from our dealer Magic Hour for some countries. This is what we're doing for our coverage of the next Rugby World Cup, to be held in Japan.
While L' quipe has used TVU Networks solutions for contribution toward its final distribution for a few live matches (basketball and volleyball local games), the main usage is for video transmission of daily news and live feeds during the program L' quipe du Soir. We estimate around two hours of daily use, from the TVU One TM1000 packs and the TVU Anywhere app on smartphones, says L'Equipetraffic operator Maxime Bidan.
It's a revolutionary solution, according to Vautier: We reach speeds of 5 Mbps and render great video output.
The TVU Anywhere application makes it possible for twenty journalists from L' quipe to be sent anywhere in the world and for regionalcorrespondents to contribute to the live show or the website.
For a sports-only broadcaster like L' quipe, with its combined broadcast, print and digital efforts as well as journalists' daily contributions, TVU Networks' best-in-class support is considered a significant strength. Magic Hour engineers always keep our solutions up-to-date and ready-to-use. What's more, TVU support in France and abroad are always ready to meet our requests, 24/7, concludes Vautier.
Most recent headlines
05/01/2027
Worlds first 802.15.4ab-UWB chip verified by Calterah and Rohde & Schwarz to be ...
01/06/2026
January 6 2026, 05:30 (PST) Dolby Sets the New Standard for Premium Entertainment at CES 2026
Throughout the week, Dolby brings to life the latest innovatio...
02/05/2026
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, t...
01/05/2026
January 5 2026, 18:30 (PST) NBCUniversal's Peacock to Be First Streamer to ...
01/04/2026
January 4 2026, 18:00 (PST) DOLBY AND DOUYIN EMPOWER THE NEXT GENERATON OF CREATORS WITH DOLBY VISION
Douyin Users Can Now Create And Share Videos With Stun...
20/02/2026
Gravity Media and Los Angeles-based Green Couch Entertainment announce a strateg...
20/02/2026
IMAX announces it is working with Apple TV to bring the 2026 FIA Formula One Wor...
20/02/2026
Daktronics has partnered with the Philadelphia Phillies to design, manufacture, ...
20/02/2026
ESPN announces the upcoming launch of Women's Sports Sundays - a first-of-it...
20/02/2026
As the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots faced off in the NFL's biggest sporting event of the season on Sun., Feb. 8, Sennheiser wireless solutions ...
20/02/2026
ESPN announces its 2026 Major League Baseball spring training schedule, which includes four national games on ESPN, six games on ESPN Unlimited, and more than 2...
20/02/2026
Open Broadcast Systems, which specializes in software-based professional video transport, has added support for 200 Gigabit Ethernet to its range of encoders an...
20/02/2026
Chyron announces the release of PAINT 10.3, which is designed to help analysts and operators turn live action into clearer, faster on-air storytelling.
PAINT 1...
20/02/2026
With full squad workouts underway, MLB Network's live Spring Training game s...
20/02/2026
Tech enhancements, marquee productions are expected to take advantage of a summe...
20/02/2026
In-venue and creative video staffers at the professional and collegiate level ha...
20/02/2026
Ratings Roundup is a rundown of recent rating news and is derived from press rel...
20/02/2026
Speaking with SVG Europe after one of Team GB's greatest days at a Winter Olympics, BBC Sport's head of major events, Ron Chakraborty, explains the broa...
20/02/2026
Making Winter Games Olympic magic is the goal for every broadcaster in Italy cov...
20/02/2026
Curling, one of the least-dangerous Winter Olympic sports, is dominating the Mil...
20/02/2026
BBC Sport's presence at the 2026 Winter Games is centred around a significan...
20/02/2026
BBC Sport is bringing together its linear TV and streaming digital arms in a str...
20/02/2026
To broaden the appeal of winter sports at Milano Cortina, the BBC has integrated...
20/02/2026
Just in time for the start of Apple TV's inaugural season as the exclusive U...
20/02/2026
One big challenge was to depict the character of each of very different and wide...
20/02/2026
(L-R) Writer-director Amanda Kramer photographs the photographers at the premiere of her film By Design at the Library Center Theatre in Park City. (Photo by ...
20/02/2026
In our latest blog, Tim Pearson explores the impact that increased memory prices are having on the consumer electronics market, and particularly the set-top box...
20/02/2026
Calrec Type R: Shaping the Future of Radio from the Heart of Flirt FM
Love may have filled the airwaves last week for Valentine's Day, and we've just c...
20/02/2026
NEW YORK - February 10, 2026 - An estimated 125.6* million viewers watched Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8, according to Nielsen's Big Data Panel meas...
20/02/2026
NEW YORK - February 19, 2026 - Nielsen today shared updated and final Super Bowl...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
A leading global investment bank, with offices at Two International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, partnered with systems integrators Global Vision Engineering (G...
20/02/2026
Rise AV and Rise Broadcast, the global not-for-profit organisations dedicated to improving gender diversity across technical industries, have today announced a ...
20/02/2026
Open Broadcast Systems, the leader in software-based professional video transport, has added support for 200 Gigabit Ethernet to its range of encoders and decod...
20/02/2026
Signiant today announced the formation of its Customer Advisory Board (CAB), bringing together a select group of customers to collaborate on product strategy, r...
20/02/2026
PTZOptics today announced the launch of its Visual Reasoning initiative that makes video more actionable by combining robotic PTZ camera systems, AI, and open i...
20/02/2026
Amino, a global media technology provider delivering devices, software and cloud services that simplify and elevate video delivery, today announced the successf...
20/02/2026
SMPTE , the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, today announced its call for technical papers for the SMPTE 2026 Media Technology Summit....
20/02/2026
Wowza Media Systems today announced that Granicus, a leading provider of digital engagement solutions for governments, continues to rely on Wowza to power its h...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
20/02/2026
Back to All News
A Friend, A Murderer' Launches on Netflix on March 5, 2026
Main image
Entertainment
20 February 2026
GlobalDenmark
Link copied to cl...
20/02/2026
Other Voices returns to RT this Spring with performances from Dermot Kennedy, A...
19/02/2026
The Canadian rightsholder deploys its most complex' Olympics setup an ever,...
19/02/2026
Suite Studios, a cloud-native platform that connects creative teams to their med...
19/02/2026
Guitar Center and the Tennessee Titans announce a first-of-its-kind partnership ...