Europe - Green Hippo has confirmed its appointment as an official Technical Event Supplier for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. This year’s show, to be held in Kiev next month, will see Green Hippo’s video playback equipment help deliver the 62nd contest to a TV audience of more than 200m.
Green Hippo, Digigobos / Beacon Gobo Group, FIX8 Group and Trust Rental will supply 16 Hippotizer Media Servers, bringing the Hippotizer line’s renowned technical qualities - think pace, power, reliability, and real-time ease of use – to the Kiev set. This year’s agreement builds on Green Hippo’s flawless performance at Eurovision 2016, where the company’s Hippotizer Boreal and Karst Media Servers helped propel the Stockholm spectacular to a record 204m viewers.
James Roth, head of sales & marketing for Green Hippo says, “As technical event supplier, working alongside the designers, programmers and staging teams on such a complex project comes with a unique set of challenges. It’s a major event and for this reason we provide full support with our own HQ team in situ in Kiev to back-up the efforts of our European and Ukrainian partners. I’m looking forward to the party.”
Nigel Sadler, chief technical officer of Green Hippo adds, “The Eurovision song contest is major show which pushes the boundaries of technical production technology every year, so we are very proud to have been chosen as the media server of choice on seven of the last 10 shows incorporating video. The unique requirements of the show have helped to shape some of our most popular features in the Hippotizer product, and we hope that the relationship will continue for many years to come.”
(Jim Evans)

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