It’s year three for NBC Sports and The Golf Channel at The Open Championship and the production teams continue to refine the production as well as its relationships. Topping the list this year is the reliance on NBC’s own NEWBERT remote flypack to allow for the Golf Channel studio production team to cut the shows […] More
The most newsworthy addition to the mix this year at The Open Championship is DirecTV’s request for UHD HDR coverage. DirecTV’s Open Experience mosaic channel includes a channel dedicated to holes 1 and 18. The decision was made to produce the coverage from those two holes in true UHD with HDR (for separate distribution apart […] More
The Open Championship continues to grow in both scale and scope for all involved. This year the number of cameras jumped from 175 to 198, the number of EVS replay servers climbed to 37, and it has even made some history with the first appearance of UHD and HDR golf coverage at an Open. “Last […] More
With the 2018 MLB All-Star festivities now in the rearview mirror, the Midsummer Classic once again served as a hotbed for sports-video-production innovation. SVG was on-site throughout reporting on the latest developments in Washington, DC, with SportsTechLive Blog: On Site at MLB All-Star 2018. From ESPN’s coverage of the Home Run Derby to Fox Sports’ tech-heavy annual […] More
ESPN deployed a 4D Replay system at Monday’s Home Run Derby that provided viewers with 360-degree replays of homers throughout the night. The 4D Replay system relied on 60 4K cameras mounted on the concourse level behind home plate and stretching from first to third base. More
The Fox Sports and MLB Network All-Star compound was an all-Game Creek affair at Nationals Park this week, as the mobile-facilities provider rolled out a total of 10 total trucks in Washington, DC, this week. More
Anyone who works in sports-video production will tell you: the second year in a venue almost always goes more smoothly. True to form, the team from ESPN and X Games production partner Echo Entertainment are feeling very much at home this time around, with X Games Minneapolis returning to U.S. Bank Stadium for the second […] More
Having made its first MLB All-Star appearance in Miami last year, the team from C360 was back with Fox Sports at Nationals Park this week. Two C360 6K+ (25X HD) 60p camera systems provided 360-degree outputs: one at low home and one attached to the SkyCam system in left field. More
Veteran broadcaster Peter Alliss first played The Open at Hoylake aged 16 and in 2018 remains a key part of the BBC commentary team – 71 years later. More
All six of ESPN’s productions at the MLB All-Star festivities in Washington D.C., including Monday’s Home Run Derby, were run out of NEP’s EN1 mobile units (A, B, C, and D) with three separate production spaces serving the various entities. More
