While Los Angeles Football Club’s (LAFC) run in the MLS is Back Tournament didn’t stretch as deep as they would have liked, the club proved to be winners in digital fan engagement as the sport of soccer returned in the midst of a pandemic. More
World Rally Championship (WRC) is back on track with five rallies being held this year, starting with Rally Estonia in September. These post-lockdown rallies bring with them WRC Promotor’s plans for moving to a full remote production for live output, which were put on hold in March as the pandemic took hold globally. More
Sports professionals, leagues and broadcasters around the globe are united in their drive to get more live sporting action back on our TV screens as lockdown restrictions ease. Many of our customer are looking to remote production models, which are proving invaluable in helping them to achieve their goal. More
The NBA Summer League has historically been a competition where NBA teams can try out different players and the league can try out different broadcast and digital technologies and workflows. It also provided a blueprint for what is happening this summer: the NBA season has resumed at the Wide World of Sports (WWoS) facility in […] More
With the world in an economic whirlwind due to the pandemic, investors are looking for more information than ever on the latest market trends. To meet that demand, the TD Ameritrade Network (TDAN) OTT channel and its production partner Broadcast Management Group (BMG) have continued to produce nine daily live shows Monday-Friday (9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. […] More
For CBS Sports and anyone involved in covering the PGA, this year has been a year unlike any other: the Majors schedule was shuffled, events were canceled, and fans have yet to return to any professional golf events. And that is why the production plan CBS Sports has put together for the PGA Championship, which […] More
This morning marks the beginning of ESPN coverage of the PGA Championship as part of a new rights deal. For the broadcaster’s production and operations team, though, it is the culmination of 17 months of planning, creating, and embracing new health and safety guidelines, and an important partnership with CBS Sports that builds off their […] More
As media and entertainment professionals have shifted to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing, accessing, and storing large media files has been a challenge. Accessing data directly from data center-based storage is cumbersome and may lack important safeguards that protect information. Employing cloud-based collaboration tools also has downsides. When media is stored in any […] More
Last September, when gaming-industry stalwarts Ariel Horn and Ben Kusin announced VENN (the Video Game Entertainment and News Network), they laid out an aggressive timeline to launch the 24/7 gaming, esports, and entertainment network in the third quarter of this year. However, when videogame play and esports viewership began to skyrocket during quarantine, VENN’s launch […] More
Eleven Sports is adding three new content streams to its bouquet of sports streaming services as it celebrates five years in business. The OTT broadcaster, inaugurated in 2015, will launch Eleven Women, showcasing the best of women’s sport from around the world, Eleven Next, a dedicated offering for ‘local sport’, and Eleven Esports. More
