The 13:00-15:40 CET Premier League football match (West Ham vs Chelsea) the 21st of September 2024 was Kari Heino’s (Upright Sounds) first live broadcast on Amazon Prime Video from Viaplay Studio 3, with Niklas Jihde, Jonas Olsson and Lars Lagerbäck in the studio. Kari Heino has been Audio Engineering the Premier League for Viaplay since 2010.
The 5th of September 2024 the “Handball Championships on Viaplay” won “Kristallen” (The Crystal) for “Best Sports Production Of The Year 2024”, which is the Swedish equivalent of winning a category in the Emmy (TV) Awards.
Kari Heino (Upright Sounds) was Head Audio Engineer (A-Sound/A-ljud) and Broadcast Mixer for both of Viaplay’s Handball Championship broadcasts, which were the Women’s Handball World Championships in December 2023 and the Men’s Handball European Championships in January 2024.
”Mästarnas Mästare” also won Kristallen for “Best Competition Reality Of The Year 2024”. Kari Heino (Upright Sounds) Audio Engineered Mästarnas Mästare 2021-2024 for Meter Television and SVT.
This was Kari Heino’s 11th season of audio engineering the NHL (National Hockey League) broadcasts for Viaplay (since 2013). The season concluded with the yearly Stanley Cup Finals, this time between Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers the 8th – 24th of June 2024.
The finals were really intense, as all the best of seven games were played, with Edmonton making a huge comeback after being down 0-3, finally resulting in 4-3 to Florida. It was a great time watching both the Finnish and Swedish star players in their respective teams!
https://www.nhl.com/news/top-10-moments-from-2024-stanley-cup-final
Upright Sounds / Kari Heino audio engineered and DJ’d another amazing season of Fråga Lund for NEP Sweden/Nexiko/SVT the 29th of May – 7th of June 2024 (previously audio engineered & DJ’d seasons 2019 & 2021-2023). A truly rare gem of a TV-show that has been around since 1962!
This was Kari Heino’s fourth time working as Audio Engineer at the live broadcasted glamorous ELLE-gala, which was hosted in the lavish Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden! The annually recurring gala is a fashion awards show, similar to the Oscars, but for the Swedish fashion industry.