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
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
BT Sport recently became one of the winners of the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) funding boost for 5G, under the 5G Create competition. Named 5G Edge-XR, the consortium led by BT’s Media and Research teams alongside TheGridFactory, Condense Reality, Bristol University, Dance East, and Salsa Sound, will develop virtual […] More
When the 2020-21 Serie A season kicks off this weekend, Sky Italy will be showing seven of the 10 games across each matchday including one per week in native 4K with high dynamic range (HDR). Viewers in Italy, as long as they have the correct Sky Q box, will get to see the games in […] More
The return of sports has brought with it a resurgence in sports betting. So what efforts are league’s undertaking to tap into this new entertainment resource? We are joined on the program this week by Scott Kaufman-Ross, Senior Vice President, Head of Fantasy and Gaming with the NBA to break down the league’s new alternate-viewing […] More
The U.S. has celebrated the first weekend of NFL football since February, but another kind of football also occupied the minds of Americans. Fans flocked to their television sets for a full slate of Premier League fixtures on NBC Sports, and the production crew responsible for these matches is moving forward with valuable information gathered […] More
After a months-long shutdown, major sports leagues suddenly snapped back into live action over the summer with MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, WNBA, and others resuming live play for the first time since the pandemic began. At the SVG’s TranSPORT Virtual Series (Sept. 23-24), top transmission leaders from CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC, and Sinclair provide an […] More
Ratings roundup is a rundown of rating news from the past week and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s edition, numbers from Week 1 of the NFL roll in, Notre Dame returns to NBC, and more. More
