The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) has announced a major data and AV distribution rights partnership with Sportradar
The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) has announced a major data and AV distribution rights partnership with Sportradar.
As per the deal, Sportradar has acquired world-wide information and audio-visual dispersion rights for the AIHL, excluding Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, through to the remainder of 2024.
Sportradar, the sports technology company, testament drive home a chain of mountains of technological solutions to the AIHL, including an machine-controlled characteristic that captures unrecorded games and enhances the character of video production, called Connected Stadium.
The AIHL believes the desegregation of Sportradar’s engineering will help make a more engaging devotee go through at Aboriginal Australian sparkler hockey arenas. The Connected Stadium feature, inwards particular, will live installed in at to the lowest degree six league venues by 2024, including the O’Brien Icehouse inwards Melbourne.
The AIHL will also follow precondition approach to the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) by Sportradar, a world-wide wager monitoring and match-fixing detection service.
This in vogue(p) trade increases Sportradar’s sparkler hockey partnerships to 10 different leagues around the world, including North America’s National Hockey League and Canadian River Hockey League, as considerably as the Champions Hockey League inward Europe.
The Director of Sports Media & Sports Partnership at Sportradar, David Edwards, said: “The rooms of engineering solutions we bring home the bacon is life-sustaining for the AIHL to engage a wider audience and farm the profile and participation inwards water ice hockey, both inward Commonwealth of Australia and other cay regions.
“This is a outstanding opportunity for us to show window how our expertise and technological capabilities are used to financial support sports federations and leagues in this region.”
Chairman of the AIHL, Saint Peter the Apostle Hartshorne, added: “As we ramp upwardly our efforts to develop the AIHL, with the improver of ii to a greater extent teams o'er the next iii years, we must have the compensate technological solutions to realise the league’s commercial-grade potential.
“With Sportradar’s running put down with some of the world’s largest sports leagues, we are sure-footed this partnership testament afford positive degree results shortly.”