Host Broadcast Services, fully owned by Infront Sports & Media, is a specialist host broadcast organisation, originally established with the core mandate of producing the television and radio signals for the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups™

Established in 1999, Host Broadcast Services (HBS) has gone on building its unique capabilities by combining experienced personnel from previous FIFA World Cups™ with expertise drawn from the very top levels of the television industry.

HBS is based in Switzerland and has its planning headquarters in Boulogne-Paris.

HBS host broadcasted the 2002 FIFA World Cup™ in Korea/Japan and the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany, the latter being the first ever FIFA World Cup™ to be delivered, to global acclaim, entirely in High Definition Television.

HBS was then appointed by FIFA to be the Host Broadcaster for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup™ and the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa, the latter delivering more services than ever before.

HBS is now the host broadcaster of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ and the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™.

HBS also oversees all other FIFA events (including the FIFA Women’s World Cups, the FIFA U-17 and U-20 World Cups, the FIFA Futsal World Cup and the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups) from every corner of the globe.

HBS is responsible for producing the multilateral coverage and providing unilateral production, transmission, commentary facilities and associated services for world broadcasters. To achieve this, it designs, builds, installs and manages an International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and the multilateral and unilateral broadcast facilities at every venue in the host country.

In addition, HBS has worked on a wide range of other events and sports, either as host broadcaster, or in a consultancy role, or as a service/facilities provider.

The 50/50 HBS joint venture called Doha Asian Games Broadcast Services (DAGBS) delivered the full host broadcast operation of the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 in Qatar. The event staged more sports than the Summer Olympics.

DAGBS has been renamed IGBS (International Games Broadcast Services) and produced the Bali Beach Games 2008. Francis Tellier is also the CEO of IGBS.

For 2008-2012, the company is delivering the host broadcast operations for French first division football (Ligue 1) on behalf of the "Ligue de Football Professionnel", producing more than 300 matches per season.

HBS is proud to have been selected by federations, leagues and world-class event organisers who know that it is a trustworthy, innovative, flexible, user-friendly and cost-effective company. This was recognised when HBS received the prestigious Sportel Golden Podium Awards in 2002 for its production innovations, for its technical achievements in 2006 in the form of the IBC-Amsterdam Judges' Award and in 2007, in London, at the SportBusiness Sports Event Management Awards.

INFRONT SPORTS & MEDIA AG

Infront Sports & Media AG - of which HBS is a 100% subsidiary - is an international sports marketing company with an exceptional track record on major events.

Infront has its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland and offices in nine countries. Host Broadcast Services AG is a subsidiary of InfrontSports & Media AG.

For more information about the Infront Group, please consult the Infront website at www.infrontsports.com or contact info@infrontsports.com.