Behzad Kaviani , the Head of Sport Production in IRIB announced that his organization has purchased HD cameras for sport broadcasts.
It is the first time that HD cameras will be available to broadcast sports events and matches. “Because of the requirement of FIVB , we needed to have High Quality (HD) production set including cameras as a pre-condition for broadcasting the matches to the rest of the world. We have obtained those requirements now and we will broadcast the Volleyball matches in HD” Kaviani said.
The National Volleyball team of Iran is currently involved in the 2014 World League and has already played two matches away against the powerful Italians. This is Iran second participation in the elite Volleyball league and after last years relative success, Iran is now in the group of the best teams.
Kaviani said that IRIB was determined to make a good job of the volleyball broadcast. According to the head of Sport Production in IRIB, about 40 million viewers have watched Iran’s volleyball matches last season. “This is an incredible figure which took us by surprise. Volleyball is definitely popular here, I even recall that Amir Ghalenoei called me to update him on the result of an ongoing Team Melli volleyball match as he had no TV available where he was to watch the volleyball match”
Asked about the conflict of FIFA World Cup matches and Iran’s World Volleyball League , Kaviani said “Thankfully , there is no conflict at all between our football teams matches in FIFA World Cup and our Volleyball team matches. However , 4 matches of ours (Iran Volleyball team) will be played during the broadcast of the World Cup matches. We intend to use two different channels to allow the viewers the choice.”
Mr. Kaviani did not specifically mention football matches in Azadi and whether HD broadcast of matches will be available in Iran, however the broadcast right holder of nearly all the major football competitions in the Middle East, BeIn sport (Formerly Al Jazeera Sport) , transmits the matches in HD quality.
