• 1988
Company founded, trading as Hoyt’s Television, to cover Australian horse racing
• 1995
Company renamed Global Television
• 1995
Acquires the Ten Network’s outside broadcast fleet
• 1995
Ten becomes a shareholder
• 1999
Acquires the Nine Network’s outside broadcast fleet
• 1999
Nine becomes a shareholder
• 2000
Launches Australia’s first full-length expanding Standard Definition digital OB super truck (Seven Network
• 2000
Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games
• 2001
Host Broadcaster for Good Will Games
•2002
Provides International Broadcast Centre for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Coolum, QLD
•2003
First with video monitor unit (VMU) control of EVS system (Ten Network, Australian Idol)
•2006
Host Broadcaster for 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games (TWI)
•2006
First to use EVS host broadcast logging system for a multi-sports event (Australian broadcast rights holder, Nine Network, 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games)
•2006
Designs and implements first large scale High Definition flyaway (Nine Network, 2006 Melbourne)
•2006
World’s first EVS to AVID file transfer (Seven Network, AFL Brownlow Medal)
•2006
Nine and Ten networks sell their equity in Global Television to Catalyst Media Services Pty Limited and Global Television Management
•2006
Global Television and Seven Network form studios joint venture at Coventry Street Properties, Southbank, VIC (now NEP Studios Melbourne)
•2006
Global Television and Seven Network form studios joint venture at Coventry Street Properties, Southbank, VIC (now NEP Studios Melbourne)
•2007
Australia’s first tapeless production record (Warner Brothers, The Banana Splits)
•2007
World-first conversion of an industrial ultra super slow motion camera in a V10 to a traditional broadcast camera operating format.
•2008
Launches Australia’s first double-expanding High Definition super truck
•2008
Host Broadcaster for World Youth Day (IMG)
•2009
Debuts world’s first radio frequency (RF) store-and-forward camera system (Nine Network, NRL State of Origin 2)
•2009
Australia (possibly world) first combination of live Sony XD Cam capture with ability to store-and-forward footage for transmission via XD link (Nine Network, NRL matches)
•2010
Australia’s first live 3D sports telecast (FOX Sports, Australia v New Zealand Soccer Friendly)
•2010
World’s first live terrestrial 3D broadcast (Nine Network, State of Origin series)
•2010
Designs world-first tapeless High Definition workflow solution (FremantleMedia Australia, Neighbours)
•2010
Provides International Broadcast Centre for Delhi Commonwealth Games in partnership with Shaf Broadcast (Doordarshan, Host Broadcaster, 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games)
•2010
Facilitates Oprah Winfrey’s historic ‘Tour Down Under’ outside broadcasts from the Sydney Opera House
•2010
Company moves to current Australian headquarters and studio complex at Eveleigh (Sydney), NSW
•2011
Acquires Cutting Edge’s outside broadcast assets
•2011
Facilitates Presidents Cup golf, Australia’s largest outside broadcast event of the year (NBC Sports, PGA Tour, Jupiter Telecommunications, Nine Network Australia, FOX Sports)
•2011
Facilitates Presidents Cup golf, Australia’s largest outside broadcast event of the year (NBC Sports, PGA Tour, Jupiter Telecommunications, Nine Network Australia, FOX Sports)
•2011
Provides International Broadcast Centre and Media Centre for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, WA
•2012
Introduces Australian-first Jita-cam (Seven Network, Dancing with the Stars)
•2012
Builds and deploys dedicated high definition studios and offices for FOX Footy Channel at NEP Studios Melbourne within five-month timeframe (FOX Sports)
•2012
2012 Establishes formal broadcast technical training partnerships with Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga, NSW) and Central Institute (Perth, WA)
•2013
Delivers Australia’s first end-to-end outsource of a major sports event (Seven Network, Rugby League World Cup)
•2013-14
Delivers every frame of televised cricket in Australian summer season (Ten Network, Big Bash; Nine Network and FOX Sports, One-day International and Test cricket)
•2014
Company acquired by NEP Group Inc
•2014
Provides International Broadcasting Centre and hosting cameras for Ten Network’s Sochi Winter Olympic Games coverage
•2014
Host Broadcaster of G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting, Sydney (Australian Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet)
•2014
Acquires the award-winning Silk Studios in Willoughby (Sydney) NSW
•2014
Produces two fully-produced ready-to-air channels for G20 Leaders’ Summit Brisbane, a G20 first (Australian Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet)
•2015
Facilitates Presidents Cup golf from Incheon, Korea (NBC Sports Group, PGA Tour, Golf Channel, Jupiter Television Japan, Chinese Golf Network, Seoul Broadcasting System)
•2015
Delivers first live cricket broadcasts in 4K ultra high definition (Star Sports India, 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup)
•2016
Delivers Australian-first centralised video refereeing system using Hawkeye technology, with the NRL later basing their digital team at the facility (National Rugby League, The Bunker at NEP Studios Sydney)
•2016
Takes on Seven Network’s AFL to now facilitate all NRL and AFL TV coverage in Australia
•2016
Transforms NEP Studios Sydney to broadcast facility for Seven Network’s 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games: three control rooms, master control room, ingest rooms, edit suites and virtual reality set manned by 300 local staff, with further 100 staff on the ground in Rio
•2016
Acquires Mediatec Asia Pacific
•2017
Announces world’s largest networked centralised remote production centres, the Sydney and Melbourne Andrews Hubs (inaugural client, FOX Sports); will come on line in early 2018
•2017
Engineering, systems integration maintenance and warehouse teams move to new premises in Homebush, NSW, to make room for NEP Hubs at NEP Studios Sydney