VideoShip’s iNet Media Hub Hits 500 Game Milestone

On Dec. 4, VideoShip’s iNet Sports Media Hub was in the lineup for its 500th game this year — providing an essential assist to pre, post, and intermission show producers and social and digital teams at some of the top Regional Sports Networks.

NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California were the first to use the iNet Sports Media Hub, which launched in the spring with the start of the Major League Baseball season. All NBC Sports RSNs are now using the Media Hub, with NBC Sports Philadelphia and NBC Sports Boston joining as the NBA and NHL seasons got underway this fall. Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) games produced by Dome Productions are now using the platform.

The cloud-based Media Hub has changed the end-of-game “melt” by storing clips from the production team as the live broadcast continues. Not just what makes the broadcast but everything the EVS operator marks for the melt, giving producers instant access to great videos that make their shows stand out. The AI-assisted metadata adds voice-to-text, facial recognition, and other valuable tags missing in a traditional hardware melt. All of this becomes searchable, archived, and more easily monetized.

This happens faster than a shot clock, as VideoShip’s iNet protocol and file acceleration transfer clips from the EVS to the cloud in seconds. The Media Hub completes the job with the outstanding video quality you would expect from a company that has supported broadcasters and major networks for over twenty years.