SVG Europe's Winter Sports Forum 2026

SVG Europe's Winter Sports Forum 2026

SVG Europe's Winter Sports Forum 2026 was a regional event hosted in association with Appear and NEP Europe, which explored the unique aspects of capturing live winter sports, examining the production and operational challenges and the tools and techniques used by federations, broadcasters and their partners to build audiences and immerse viewers in the action. The event took place at NEP Europe's Oslo Broadcast Centre.

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SVG Europe's Winter Sports Forum 2026
  • Reclaiming the Rings: NRK’s All-Platform Strategy For Milano Cortina 2026

    Norway once again topped the medal table at the Winter Games, with a record 18 gold medals at Milano Cortina 2026. And fourteen years after holding full free-to-air Olympic rights, the county’s public broadcaster NRK returned to the Winter Games with a clear mission: to reunite a fragmented natio...

  • FPV Drones: Redefining Speed for Skiing, Sliding, and Skating

    First Person View (FPV) drones have evolved from experimental tools into powerful assets for live sports coverage, delivering immersive, high-speed perspectives that place audiences directly inside the action. Recent large-scale deployments in Italy showed how custom-built FPV systems can enhance...

  • Above the Action: How Drones are Transforming Winter Sports Coverage for NRK

    Drones have rapidly evolved from experimental tools to essential elements of live sports production. In this session, Espen Skretteberg, NRK, Producer/Director, and Jonas Sandell, Above Media, Technical Manager and Pilot, share first-hand insights from pioneering drone use. What lessons have shap...

  • Building the Olympic Pulse: Inside TV4’s strategy for its first Olympic Games

    When Sweden’s TV4 shared Olympic rights with SVT, it responded by creating a distinctive all-day “Olympic pulse” that blended elite sport with continuous news storytelling. This one-to-one interview will explore how TV4 - broadcasting its first ever Olympic Games - positioned its coverage, combin...

  • 1,400km Away: Remote Production of the Norwegian Cross-Country Ski Championships

    What does it take to deliver world-class winter sports coverage from more than 1,400 kilometres away? In this in-depth case study, we unpack the remote production of the Norwegian National Cross-Country Ski Championships in Harstad, Norway - produced live from the NEP facility hosting the Winter ...

  • How Whisper Brought Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games to UK Audiences

    Having produced Channel 4’s award-winning coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Whisper also delivered coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games to UK audiences. Channel 4’s coverage featured more than 60 hours of live sport from the Italian Dolomites across linear and st...