When it comes to live sports productions, it simply doesn’t get any bigger than NBC’s Sunday Night Football. In 15 years together, NBC’s SNF production and operations teams have seen just about everything. However, with no preseason games on which to prepare for the SNF slate this year, the crew found itself in Kansas City […] More
After more than two decades on the transmission side of the M&E industry, Elio Parente joined Tata Communications Media & Entertainment Services (MES) in July to head its American sales team. A veteran of CenturyLink, Level 3, and Genesis, he is now looking to take Tata Communications’ MES team in the region to greater heights. […] More
Many professional sports have opted for a return to play inside a sanitized bubble. Not the NFL. Without skipping a beat, the league is soldiering on with regular-season games in all 32 stadiums across the country. Similar to our At the Ballpark series, On the Gridiron examines the new routines, habits, and production philosophies of […] More
With the NFL season underway and games largely being played in empty stadiums, once again broadcast audio is being supplemented with “enhanced” crowd sounds which, in this case, have been carefully curated for each team and venue by NFL Films. At the same time, reduced noise levels are offering unprecedented opportunities to pick up field-of-play […] More
Last weekend was a busy one for Fox Sports: the 2020 NFL season kicked off, college football was under way, and there was MLB action to boot. It was also a weekend of innovation, new safety protocols, and, most important, busy production crews creating TV across the country. Brad Zager, executive producer/executive VP/head of production […] More
Producing a golf major typically takes one (if not two) full years of planning. So, when NBC Sports took over the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot from Fox Sports, it kicked off an accelerated planning process that would challenge any production team. More
More than 190 countries will broadcast the U.S. Open via a world feed produced by the USGA out of NEP’s NCP14 production unit. More
The NFL has gotten through Week 1, and the “crowds” at the games seem to like the way it sounds. The league has joined other sports in creating its own crowd-sound system. In doing so, the NFL took a very different path from the NBA, whose players are the focus of its faux-crowd-sound system. While […] More
SVG is excited to announce the latest in our series of virtual events: The Remote Production Workflows Virtual Series. Taking place on Oct. 28-29, this event will take a look at the current and future state of remote/at-home production. IP, virtualized systems, and the cloud are changing the nature of remote production and allowing for […] More
Many professional sports have opted for a return to play inside a sanitized bubble. Not the NFL. Without skipping a beat, the league is soldiering on with regular-season games in all 32 stadiums across the country. Similar to our At the Ballpark series, On the Gridiron will examine the new routines, habits, and production philosophies […] More
