EMG / Gravity Media In Australia Collaborates With Supercars Media

Supercars Media and EMG / Gravity Media, a world leading global provider of complex live creative production and media services, today outlined the all-encompassing broadcast and technology partnership that will deliver coverage of this year's Repco Supercars Championship across Australia and multiple international territories.

EMG / Gravity Media Australia and Supercars Media will travel more than 40,000 kilometres over the next ten months to deliver more than 400 hours of coverage of the Championship on FOX Sports, Kayo, the Seven Network and 7plus and international broadcast platforms.

The first race of this year's 13 event Repco Supercars Championship sees Supercars race in twilight in Sydney across 21-23 February. The Repco Bathurst 1000 will be run across 9-12 October. Following the Repco Bathurst 1000, racing shifts to the streets of Surfers Paradise in late October. The season ends on the streets of Adelaide for the VAILO Adelaide 500 across 27-30 November.

The Championship is a significant technology and logistics broadcast undertaking accessing EMG / Gravity Media Australia’s state-of-the-art high definition outside broadcast trucks coupled with new cloud-based broadcast technologies.

The opening round of this year's Repco Supercars Championship, the upcoming Thrifty Sydney 500, will see EMG / Gravity Media deploy 25 cameras covering every on-track moment.

In addition, each of the 24 Supercars competing in the Championship carry four in-car and on-board EMG / Gravity Media Australia designed and developed speciality cameras.

At the Championship peak, with the Repco Bathurst 1000, EMG / Gravity Media and Supercars Media will access 200 cameras on track, in the pits, in the air, in cars and around the circuit.

Supercars Head of Broadcast, Nathan Prendergast, said: "It's great to be working with EMG / Gravity Media again to bring Supercars to fans all over the world. The scale of what we do each season is massive, and having a partner like EMG / Gravity Media, with their technology and expertise, makes all the difference. From in-car cameras to cloud-based production, we’re always looking for new ways to bring fans closer to the action, and this partnership helps us do exactly that."

Ben Madgwick, Sales Director, EMG / Gravity Media in Australia, said: "EMG / Gravity Media is proud to continue its long partnership with Supercars as their preferred supplier for host broadcast, in-car and team radio communications, on-site edit and post-production along with Supercars on-track requirements for this year's Championship.
"Following our recent collaboration with Supercars Media for the Bathurst 12 Hour, we are excited to return to Sydney Motorsport Park and the opening round of what will be a terrific Championship.
"Our partnership with Supercars signifies a shared passion for delivering cutting-edge, high-quality broadcast experiences as we capture and elevate the experience for fans at the track and watching those watching live on Fox Sports and the Seven Network."

In addition to its partnership with Supercars Media on the all-screens production, EMG / Gravity Media also provides the technology and systems for Supercars' team radios, along with 32 channels of 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 Supercars Championship.

Beyond the Repco Supercar Championship and the Repco Bathurst 1000, EMG / Gravity Media’s broadcast facilities and technology collaboration with Supercars Media also includes the global and Australian television coverage of the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour for FIA GT3 cars.

EMG / Gravity Media Australia’s long-term broadcast facilities and technology collaboration with Supercars Media, which produces the global and Australian television coverage of the Repco Supercars Championship, commenced in 2013.

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 A-Leagues, Bathurst 1000 and Repco Supercars Championship, Cricket Australia, Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans Road Race, the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Stawell Gift, and Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Through its studios, production, post-production, outside broadcast facilities and specialist camera technologies, EMG / Gravity Media Australia is currently involved with major production companies, television networks and pay television and streaming platforms in Australia across projects including The Voice, Australian Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Australia's Got Talent, The 1% Club and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, AACTA Awards and the ARIA Awards.