
EMG takes a collaborative approach to meet the technical and logistical challenges of the Giro d'Italia By Roberto Landini, Italian Correspondent
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 11:04
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EMG is now the host broadcaster for RCS Sport at the Giro d'Italia
Following the news that RCS Sport has appointed EMG as its broadcast production partner for cycling, the pair have continued their co-operation with the successful delivery of the Giro d'Italia, which took place last month. EMG was called in to manage the production of the event, including editorial management and logistics. Beginning on 6 May in Budapest, the three-week Giro d'Italia finished in Verona on 29 May after 21 challenging stages.
For us it is a great responsibility that also covers the whole package of the nine races in Italy. To do this we have put in place a partnership between EMG in France, Belgium, Holland and Italy, and we will carry out some experimentation
All the logistics were handled by EMG Italy, led by Davide Furlan, special international events director and overall project manager of cycling, EMG Italy, along with Valentina D'Al a, booking logistics coordinator of the TV compound and known as the one who slept the least of all! as she managed a team of 129 people across each stage of the race.
D'Alia gives the numbers'
As D'Alia explains: My task was to co-ordinate the booking crew for the logistics of the entire operational group made up of Italians, French, Dutch and Belgians. All the logistics, finding hotels close to the hot spots, the organisation of catering, moving all the staff, was a gigantic undertaking, for a product on the air from noon to 18:00 for each stage, for a total of 106 hours of live coverage.
Across the event, some 6,764km was travelled over 27 days; 1,958 hotel rooms were booked, excluding air crews and helicopters which accounted for another eight to 10 people; 20 drivers with 20 minivans were used for the caravans that transport all staff to the hotels; 1,548 meals were catered between arrivals and departures; and 60 hours of night surveillance were conducted.
Fabio Guadagnini, EMG Italy CFO and project manager on the Giro, who was tasked with coordinating the French, Italian, Dutch and Belgium groups, comments: RCS Sport made a strategic and also very courageous choice, and will rely on EMG Group for three years, becoming the organiser also for the production part.
For us it is a great responsibility that also covers the whole package of the nine races in Italy. To do this we have put in place a partnership between EMG in France, Belgium, Holland and Italy, and we will carry out some experimentation.
In these first editions [starting with the Strade Bianche road race in March and the Giro] we did not have much technical time because we were too close to the start of the competitions [when we were appointed], but we are already working on a strategy for the next few years where we will propose new adventures together with RCS Sport, which is a very receptive interlocutor and for us this is a big thing.
We therefore decided to put on the track the best of what the group can offer at European level for cycling: our great technological knowledge, starting from RF services and the management of EMG Belgium, Holland and France signals, and our expertise of the territory, in addition to the management of technical means and OB van production which is largely managed by EMG Italy.
EMG has employed and combined a range of international expertise to pull off its first Giro for RCS Sport
For this edition of the Giro, EMG employed and combined a range of international expertise, marking the first time that the group has brought this intercompany joint venture into the field on such a complex project.
Guadagnini adds: It was a very important challenge that we faced with great commitment. We were aware that we could never let our guard down; telling a sporting performance over 200km to 270km in five or six hours of live coverage brings many risks and dangers.
According to Bruno Coudyzer, manager EuroLinX at EMG Belgium, it wasn't difficult, but rather, a great challenge . He goes on: Each country and city where we stopped had its own difficulties: it is enough to look at how large the TV compound for international and national feeds was, to understand that we had to face very demanding and very different logistical, technical and practical complexities and solutions.
While in the flat' stages, such as Reggio Emilia, the management is simpler; in the mountain stages we have less space and leeway to make everything work. Here the intermediate team is instrumental as mountains often block the line of sight propagation for RF signals to pass through.
We lived 30 days of great enthusiasm with a strong search for technical sports details, details that had been lost in the past, despite the absolute competence of RAI, and that the cycle-amateur loves to see, all with great quality 1080i images, therefore with an excellent signal
The set up for the Giro is similar to that of the Tour de France with 10 bikes, including five for the unilateral RAI, some for the audio commentary and one for Eurosport, as well as the use of helicopters.
In addition to the two in flight we had a third helicopter on standby and also a second plane always in standby - which is used for the so-called queen stages' and long stages', adds Coudyzer.
I really couldn't calculate by heart how many RF channels we used, but in terms of frequencies in use there were about 80, not only for video but also for communications and data, since intercommunications are key in such a mobile set up.
The bulk of the RF equipment came from Livetools, a proprietary brand within EMG, which has its own research and development areas and which p
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