At the invitation of FIFA, some 120 journalists visited the IBC on 21 May. During a three hour long event, the attendees were given an extensive tour of facilities and listened to detailed explanations about the role of the IBC in the broadcast of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. Four major stops were made during the tour, which started with a visit of the Aggreko Generator Park where both Rupert Soames, CEO of Aggreko, and Cyril Ramaphosa of the Shanduka Group, provided details of the overall power set-up and their respective companies' role in providing this.

The tour continued with a visit of the IT Command Centre (ITCC) and the floor was given to Phumlani Moholi, Chief IT & T Officer of the LOC and Dick Wiles CEO of Match IT, who addressed the role of the overall IT infrastructure.

On the African Plaza, which centres several of the main services and facilities in Hall 6 of the IBC, Niclas Ericson, Director of FIFA TV, informed attendees about FIFA's policy for making the exposure of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ unprecedented in Africa, its partnership with the AUB (African Union of Broadcasters), FIFA broadcast training programmes in Africa which have delivered Legacy Weeks in more than ten countries already, and the FIFA/AUB Production Centre offering, for the first time, an IBC studio to African broadcasters.

The delegation then stopped outside the Master Control Room (MCR), the hub of broadcast operations at the event, where both Niclas Ericson and Francis Tellier, CEO of HBS, underlined the importance of the MCR and highlighted the major new developments in the production plan for the event, including the Mobile Match Feed and 3D coverage of 25 matches.

Proceedings concluded with an open Q&A session which was attended by Jerome Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, Danny Jordaan, CEO of the Local Organising Committee, General Siphiwe Nyanda, Minister of Communications, and Amos Masondo, Mayor of Johannesburg.

	Niclas Ericson, Director of FIFA TV, addressing attendees on the African Plaza
	From left to right, Danny Jordaan, CEO of the Local Organising Committee, Jerome Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, Amos Masondo, Mayor of Johannesburg and General Siphiwe Nyanda, Minister of Communications answering questions at the close of the tour