It all began in the early nineteen-eighties when the Company was asked by Rothmans, the company which sponsored the Porsche World Endurance Championship Team, to install a conventional broadcast camera and video recorder in a works Porsche 956.
This bulky onboard camera system was used to provide broadcasters with a driver’s ‘point of view’ for their coverage of World Endurance Championship, the famous ’24 Heures du Mans’, and the World Rally Championship. Subsequently, in the days when GoPro and other action cameras were unheard of, the Company developed a miniature on-board camera system small enough to provide live images from a racing motorcycle, Formula One racing car, or even a jockey’s helmet.
Porsche 956 Onboard Spa – Courtesy of Duke Marketing
Over the next thirty years, TV2 has provided broadcasters in over fifty countries with specialised facilities for the the live coverage of motorsport and other events. Of particular note was the 1987 America’s Cup, in Fremantle, where live onboard camera shots from Dennis Conor’s ‘Stars and Stripes’ resulted in the company being nominated for a coveted ‘Monitor Award’.
Americas’s Cup – Fremantle 1987
Today, the work of TV2 International is not only limited to sporting events. The Company is also involved in all aspects of video production, including news gathering and interviews, as well as airborne ground surveillance and reconnaissance (AGSR).
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