Organised chaos: UCL Matchday 8 set to hit TNT Sports with 18 concurrent games in bumper night of fixtures By Heather McLean
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 11:13
Print This Story
TNT Sports is ready to bring UEFA Champions League Matchday 8 live to viewers on Wednesday 29 January 2025
TNT Sports is geared up for Matchday 8 where it will be broadcasting 18 concurrent UEFA Champions League games (UCL) on Wednesday 29 January. TNT Sports is the host broadcaster for two matches taking place in the UK, with matches throughout Europe being produced by their respective rights holders for UEFA. Also, viewers can watch TNT Sports' take on all 18 matches on Goals Show Xtra.
All the matches will kick off concurrently at 8pm GMT and be shown live on TNT Sports and Discovery+.
The broadcaster is being supported by EMG / Gravity Media for OB technical services on the ground as well as remote production operations back at the recently merged company's Westworks production centre in London. The Goals Show Xtra studio is being supported by EMG / Gravity at Longwalk Studios in Stockley Park.
Scott Young, group senior vice president, content, production and business operations at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, Europe, tells SVG Europe: I think this is one of the most exciting days in football coverage and certainly in European football coverage as a broadcaster of football. We have more stories to tell than I think we've ever been faced with before, and not just from a UK perspective but from the optics of this new league. We've always known from the very beginning that Matchday 8 was going to be special. I think now that we're through Matchday 7 and getting ready for Matchday 8, where the different teams have fallen in each of the tables of the top eight, so automatically through or to knock-out phases, there's some incredible stories to tell.
So it's far more than just the two matches which we're a host broadcaster of, continues Young. It is the 18 games and how each of those games can impact all of the UK teams that are sitting in the ladder. So as a fan of football, you can either watch Goals Show Xtra where Allie McCoist and the team will help unpack the complexity and chaos of all 18 matches kicking off at once, or obviously you can follow your team directly on TNT Sports or Discovery+. So Rob and the team have put together a robust production plan that helps explain Matchday 8 and allows football fans to follow their team.
Viewers can pick up with the Matchday 8 action across TNT Sports' Goals Show Xtra where Allie McCoist and the team will help unpack the complexity and chaos of all 18 matches kicking off at once, or on Discovery+ and TNT Sports
Organised chaos
The broadcaster will be focusing on the Aston Villa v Celtic match, with two OB trucks onsite for match and presentation. For the Aston Villa match, TNT Sports has also upped the camera spec slightly, adding Polecams and Batcam for enhanced coverage.
Meanwhile, the big story of Matchday 8, Manchester City, will also be a major focus for storytelling on the evening as the Premier League champions play Club Brugge, facing elimination from the competition if they lose. For this game, there will be two OB trucks onsite for match and presentation, with the presentation being managed as a remote production.
Young comments: So for this match day in particular, we have two host broadcasts; we're at Aston Villa and we're at Manchester City. Obviously it's a unique one because we are the host broadcaster for Villa and Celtics, and they're playing each other. So we sort of facilitate it as a double host broadcast, if you like.
Each OB Manchester City and Aston Villa currently involves around 130 people onsite, including freelancers, staff and suppliers.
In addition to the on-site teams, some members of the team will be working remotely from EMG / Gravity West Works in London, contributing to areas such as VT and engineering.
Additionally, TNT Sports has commentary onsite at the PSV Eindhoven v Liverpool match with a commentary camera via SRT stream. Also, for the Girona v Arsenal match, it has commentary onsite with a commentary camera SRT stream.
Rob Levi, senior director at TNT Sports, notes that Manchester City is set to be an interesting match to follow from a storytelling perspective. We have Manchester City and this is editorially a big story in the making; Manchester City is one of the favourites of the competition but they could completely drop out of the competition if they don't win. So we are going to be there on site, we'll be covering the match. We'll also have presentation from the ground to make sure we are really on top of that story.
Levi adds: Not to forget, we've got two of our other teams who are a little bit more comfortable in the competition and that's Arsenal and Liverpool. So they'll be on two other channel's studios and they've pundits watching those games, analysing those games. Even though they're safe in the competition, there's still a huge appetite for those teams, Liverpool and Arsenal. Lots of fans will be wanting to watch their team and see how they get on.
So we're making sure that we are on top of those two teams as well and covering their stories and at the same time we are still pushing people towards reminding them that the Goals Show Xtra is happening, continues Levi. Lots of goals and lots of stories to tell. There's a lot to take in there, there's a lot going on all at the same time. But it is really exciting and we feel like we're ready for it and we are now ready to go.
Revamped Goal Show Xtra
TNT Sports is dedicating most of its coverage to its two OB matches, but Goals Show Xtra is going to really bring the flavour and excitement of all 18 games to viewers at home
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
30/08/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has adopted its FY 2025 Regulatory Fees Order that establishes the regulatory fee rates for the broadcast stati...
29/08/2025
Australian Red Cross and SBS launch training to help workplaces in the fight aga...
29/08/2025
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sp...
29/08/2025
L3Harris Technologies has concentrated decades of expertise across the entire enterprise to develop affordable and reliable best-of-breed solutions to rapidly c...
29/08/2025
BURBANK, Calif. The CW Network and the Pac-12 Conference have announced a new media rights deal that will extend their broadcast partnership beginning with the ...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK Gracenote has released a new analysis of its global video dataset showing that the number of FAST channels grew nearly 14% from Q1 2025 and 76% since 2...
29/08/2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harmonic has announced a series of improvements to its live sports streaming solution that the company said will improve fan engagement, protec...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES Fox Corp. and YouTube TV last night announced a renewal of the full portfolio of Fox networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business...
29/08/2025
Budapest, Hungary, August 2025 - The integration of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) with Lightware's Taurus universal matrix switchers delivers a new level of f...
29/08/2025
Frequency, the engine behind many of the world's best-known streaming television channels, today announced it will launch Studio Live, a next-generation uni...
29/08/2025
In an era when AI and cyber resilience are essential, Scality will mark the 10th anniversary of Scality Day on October 16, 2025 in Paris. This flagship global e...
29/08/2025
Disguise's In-House Creative and Technical Teams Pre-Visualised, Programmed and Delivered Content for the Experience, All Powered by EX 3+
Technology solu...
29/08/2025
Disguise will be demonstrating the latest workflows for TV, film and live events on a number of partner booths at the show
Disguise, the industry-leading tech...
29/08/2025
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Accedo will showcase Accedo Compose, its AI agent-powered modular orchestration layer that assists streaming providers in transitioning client...
29/08/2025
LOS ANGELES Cineverse has announced that it is working with Xperi to bring four of its streaming channels to automobiles for the first time as part of the DTS A...
29/08/2025
DALLAS & ATLANTA Gray Media has announced an agreement with the sports streaming service Victory+ to simulcast 17 Dallas Stars NHL games in 15 television market...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK AND CULVER CITY Comcast NBCUniversal and Amazon have announced new and extended distribution agreements that will expand the content available on their...
29/08/2025
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. RED Digital Cinema will feature its Cine-Broadcast Module supporting live broadcast workflows during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Ams...
29/08/2025
29 Aug 2025
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and ...
29/08/2025
More than half of all NFL games live on Sky for the first timeFriday 29 August 2025
Sky Sports has announced a new three-year deal with the NFL, extending its ...
29/08/2025
Back to All News
RIV4LRIES: The Trailer of the New Series With Samuele Carrino ...
29/08/2025
Get ready for an inspiring and emotional insight into the world of competitive Irish dancing with My Story: Tomi Champion of the World airing on RT 2 this monda...
29/08/2025
RT has today announced that David McCullagh is to be the new presenter of RT Radio 1's flagship Today programme, which airs every weekday at 10am, replaci...
28/08/2025
By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs
If you want to tell untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got ...
28/08/2025
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, Sundance Institute-supported Amer...
28/08/2025
Corridos have been a cornerstone of M sica Mexicana for generations, telling stories rooted in everyday life. Now, a new chapter is taking shape: motivational c...
28/08/2025
Los corridos han sido un pilar de la M sica Mexicana durante generaciones, contando historias enraizadas en la vida cotidiana. Ahora, un nuevo cap tulo est tom...
28/08/2025
Earlier this month, we promised our Verano Forever party would bring the heat, a...
28/08/2025
L3Harris will provide the Polish F-16V fleet with the Viper Shield electronic warfare system as part of an upgrade program....
28/08/2025
Bilbao, August 26, 2025 - AgileTV, an international television and video technol...
28/08/2025
Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work...
28/08/2025
NEW YORK FuboTV today announced that it will launch Fubo Sports, a skinny bundle that focuses on sports with a subscription price of $56 monthly....
28/08/2025
NEVADA City, Calif. At IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam, Telestream will debut its new Global Ingest strategy, introducing a next-generation ingest arc...
28/08/2025
Dr. Rhoda Bernard Releases Groundbreaking Debut Book on Accessible Arts Educatio...
28/08/2025
TAG Video Systems, the leader in software-based IP end-to-end workflow monitoring, deep probing, and real-time visualization, has named Oliver Gappa as Sales Di...
28/08/2025
AI-based voice enhancement will be among a series of innovations making their IBC 2025 debut on the DHD stand B46 in Hall 8 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Cent...
28/08/2025
Telef nica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), the leading system integrator and service provider in the media sector in Spain, with the support of Appear, the globa...
28/08/2025
To fully immerse sailing fans in the world's biggest offshore yacht race, production company, Optical Media turned to LiveU's On-site Production solutio...
28/08/2025
Working with Calrec on its most recent overhaul, radio and television broadcaster, WNED has migrated to a fully IP infrastructure with multiple Type R consoles,...
28/08/2025
Cleeng, the Subscriber Retention Management (SRM ) inventor, has unveiled Cleeng Pro, the first-ever direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription management platform t...
28/08/2025
Zixi, the industry leader in live broadcast-quality video over IP, today announced that French media distribution platform OKAST has selected Zixi to enable rel...
28/08/2025
Solution offers a streamlined, speaker-free architecture to optimize integration with premium external loudspeakers and advanced loudness metering
Nixer Pro Au...
28/08/2025
Cinegy, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Vision One Touch Film Production Services L.L...
28/08/2025
Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, will debut its new Global Ingest strategy at IBC2025, introducing a next-generation ingest architect...
28/08/2025
Tier 1 operator selects Broadpeak to power high-performance, unified CDN solution across Norway, Sweden and Finland
Broadpeak, a leader in streaming and moneti...
28/08/2025
Leading video software provider, Synamedia, today announced that 24 Frames Digital, one of India's leading live event streaming service providers, has chose...
28/08/2025
Meet VisualOn at IBC2025: See What's Next in AI-Powered Video Streaming Join VisualOn at IBC2025 and discover how our AI-driven Optimizer and advanced media...
Organised chaos: UCL Matchday 8 set to hit TNT Sports with 18 concurrent games in bumper night of fixtures By Heather McLean 
