HBS, the Host Broadcaster of the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups™, and Media Passport, a company specialising in providing assistance and training in the fields of communication and media, are proud to inaugurate the BROADCAST ACADEMY. The Broadcast Academy, a 50/50 joint venture between HBS and Media Passport, is already operational and has signed several training contracts throughout the world. The academy, strengthened by HBS and Media Passport’s expertise, currently has a team of over 50 international trainers, experts who are able to offer customised instruction in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese). The two companies have separately trained more than 10,000 people to date, including students as well as experienced veterans, in more than 50 countries throughout the world.

The Broadcast Academy is the only Broadcast and Media training company to use the world’s first-ever LIVE professional sports broadcast simulator: the Live TV Simulator.

Up until today there was no practical training solution allowing sports directors to redo their broadcasts at will. But now directors of televised sports broadcasts and their teams have a professional simulator, as well as a convenient and accelerated method for practicing and perfecting their technique, without any of live television's constraints: it is all at once a football pitch, 22 players and their ball, the referee and linesmen, the ball-boys, enthusiastic spectators, an OB van and its cameras, kilometres of cabling, tons of equipment and an entire team of camera operators and technicians all contained in two rack bays (fitted into five small flight cases) designed to be transported by plane and quickly installed within the customers’ workplace, thereby bypassing any travel expenses for trainees.

Additionally, the Broadcast Academy offers television professionals, technicians, managers and high-ranking sports officials a catalogue containing more than 25 modules organised in three categories: TV Broadcasting, TV Rights/Marketing & Sports Events, and Media & New Technologies. All of these courses can be customised and are taught in the host country according to the human and technological means available, allowing the trainees to work in utterly realistic conditions.

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