TV Skyline Selects Wisycom

TV Skyline, one of Germany's leading broadcast providers, supports a wide range of high-profile productions across Europe and beyond.

From Bundesliga and Champions League matches to large-scale entertainment and music events, the company is well-versed in complex live broadcasting. For many years, TV Skyline has helped deliver broadcast coverage at the iconic ADAC 24-Hour Race at the Nürburgring, also known as ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring. Renowned for its technical challenges and vast terrain, the event requires a robust and highly flexible RF system, making Wisycom the obvious choice.

The historic ADAC 24-Hour Race at Nürburgring is one of the world's most legendary racing events. Starting in the afternoon on a Saturday and concluding 24-hours later, the annual endurance race garnered around 300,000 attendees on-site this year alone. The track, reaching almost 22 kilometres long with nearly 300 meters in elevation change, holds around 120 cars in participation—ranging from amateur to major teams—all sharing only about 30 pit spaces. "It's a logistical beast," said Daniel Jäger, Sound Engineer, TV Skyline." With unpredictable weather, dense crowds and a tight race environment, the Nürburgring presented significant RF and operational hurdles. It's more like a motorsport festival,” says Alexander Wenke, TV Skyline's OB Truck Manager. “For 24-hours, the drivers and crew need to perform without fail.”

TV Skyline brought two OB vans to the site: one to handle the international feed and another for national coverage in Germany. The main OB van managed approximately 70 cameras stationed along the track, with about 100 microphones capturing audio. Given the size of the area, a conventional wireless setup wasn't an option. "That's why Wisycom's fibre-based RF solutions were essential," said Jäger. "It allowed us to connect multiple antennas across vast distances and operate as if it’s one big RF zone. Otherwise, we would have needed individual receivers everywhere, which is not efficient."

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