The final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2024-25 was played on 24 May 2025 at the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal. In a thrilling match, Arsenal defeated Barcelona, preventing Barcelona from winning their third consecutive cup.
The broadcasting of this event for Spain was carried out by RTVE, with the head of international control at TVE, Alberto González, in charge of the set-up. He used an unprecedented set-up based on portable Quantum equipment from Prodys. First of all, he equipped a commentator’s position with two Quantum2 W units with video, which served the journalist narrating the match and the guest commentator.
The first Quantum2 W was used to mix the audio from both commentators and send it to the studio via an IP connection. The Q2W video encoder was used to send a backup video of the match, in case the international video connection provided by the host broadcaster failed.
The second Quantum2W equipment in the commentary area used only the video encoder and decoder, on the one hand, to send the image from the commentary camera to the studio and, on the other hand, to receive a return of the broadcast to serve as a reference. This image was displayed on a second monitor.
On the pitch, a third Quantum2 W unit was used to receive an audio feed back to the on-field presenter and a video feed of the programme broadcast for the presenter’s reference.
Finally, a Quantum Lite reporter unit was also used to provide ‘pitch reporter’ functionality, sending commentary and information from the field to the commentator position.
On the day of the match everything worked perfectly. The person in charge of the set-up, Alberto González, showed his satisfaction, commenting that ‘the Prodys Quantum2 W portable equipment is highly reliable for this type of broadcasting where nothing can go wrong’ and added: ‘In addition, with this Prodys equipment we are saving money because in these events outside Spain it is not necessary to hire a complete commentator position or a mobile unit on site from an external supplier’.
