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Is Pixellot a Solution for Liverpool Football Clubs?

There are two phenomenal Premier League football teams in Liverpool – Liverpool FC, and Everton FC. With the current season reaching fever pitch levels, both Liverpool and Everton are in contention for a shot at premiership glory. Besides the heavy hitters in Liverpool and Everton, there are many other teams based in the city with their eyes on football glory. The semi-professional football teams include Prescot Cables, Southport FC, and Marine FC.

While they are significantly lower ranked, their importance in the city of Liverpool and surrounds has not diminished. Other teams include the likes of Tranmere Rovers, Bootle FC, Litherland REMYCA, City of Liverpool FC, AFC Liverpool, St Helens Town, and Cammell Laird. With all the hoopla around football in the City of Liverpool, it comes as no surprise that football coverage is extremely important to fans, players, coaches, and the competition.

Which Networks Have Broadcast Coverage Rights for Liverpool Football Games?

Of course, everyone in this glorious city knows that LFC TV is the official broadcast channel for the premiership kings, Liverpool FC. The channel launched on September 20, 2007, and while it was originally offered via Setanta Sports, it is its own channel owned by the club. LFC TV is available via 3BB Giga TV on channel 402, on Foxtel Australia on Channel 517, on Sky Sports on Channel 425, and Virgin Media on Channel 544. The benefit of this Liverpool-exclusive channel is in-depth coverage of all the goings-on with the current Premier League Champions, Liverpool FC.

As we step away from the big guns in Liverpool and Everton, towards the lesser-known teams, sports broadcasting coverage options rapidly fade. That’s where AI sports broadcasting solutions like Pixellot TV come into the equation. This technologically advanced solution utilises artificial intelligence to seamlessly stitch together camera footage to generate a panoramic view of the entire football field. These fully calibrated AI sports broadcasting cameras inherently understand the dynamics of football, and can track all the action on the field, bar none. Currently, Pixellot systems are operating at 98% accuracy, with incremental improvements with every iteration.

Club level football teams struggle to showcase their games to their fans, given the high costs of providing sports broadcasting coverage on cable TV, or via satellite. Pixellot’s sports broadcasting solution is an Internet-based system which can be broadcast to premium subscriber channels, with marketing £s feeding the growth and development of the club teams, while fans get to enjoy greater access to the football action.

The quality of the HD audio-visual feed is peerless; it mimics the best of what professional sports broadcasting networks provide to fans with camera crews and technical support staff. The only difference is that Pixellot does not require on-hand camera crews whatsoever. The stand-alone AI cameras are positioned at strategic points on the football pitch to provide coverage of the games.

How Does Pixellot Coverage Improve During Football Broadcasts?

When it comes to automated sports production, Pixellot’s masterclass solution has the ability to seamlessly take small games mainstream, reaching a much bigger audience, with greater revenue potential. Gone are the days when the only possibility of watching a club level or amateur football match was in person. Thanks to the power of Pixellot, it’s entirely possible to enjoy masterclass sports broadcasting at a fraction of the cost of major TV broadcasting networks, for a much wide audience of fans. Plus, the coverage is available on demand, and live.

Since it is AI, the system is a self-learning technological organism. The algorithms governing the functionality of the camera action, analytics, tracking, and forecasting of game performance understand more as they broadcast more. Already, the system broadcasts 90,000 live hours monthly, with over 500,000 games produced, across 8400 courts and fields. The behind-the-scenes analytics are the kicker when it comes to football broadcasting coverage. Now, even club level coaches, players, and fans get to enjoy the self-same analysis used by the Premier League teams, and it’s 100% intuitive.

Sophisticated software is capable of providing in-depth coverage of individual player performance, team player performance, and big data analysis. Such is the power of Pixellot camera systems that fully customised viewing is entirely possible. Given the long length of football fields, panoramic views of the action are necessary for sports broadcasting coverage. That’s precisely what this system delivers, and it does so with precision. The more these cameras see, the more they learn.