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Wednesday, January 22, 2025Ohio State's Ethan Miller on Creative Storytelling From Spring Practice to the National Title GameThe Ohio State Buckeyes are National Champions!
Events like the College Football Playoff are golden opportunities for athletic department creative teams to shine. Our Kristian Hernández spoke with Ohio State football’s director of creative media and branding Ethan Miller prior to the title game to dig into the experience.
In this talk, break down the long-form and short-form content made throughout the year for digital and social platforms, reflects on the some of the team's best posts, shares what it’s like to work with Head Coach Ryan Day and the players on a day-to-day basis, and offers a peek into the equipment that’s used to capture the pictures and videos seen on social media.Wednesday, January 22, 2025Inside PWHL Takeover Tour's Record-Setting Day in DenverIn its second season, the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) is taking its show on the road. In a series of nine games hosted in "neutral site" cities, the PWHL Takeover Tour is designed to expand the new league's reach and grow the game of women's hockey.
On January 12, a game between the Minnesota Frost and the Montréal Victoire drew a crowd of 14,018 to Denver’s Ball Arena, making it the most attended professional women's hockey game in the history of the United States. It was a special day for the sport that also made for great television.
In this edition of SVG Rewind, we speak with the front bench from the broadcast of that game - producer Katie Halter and director Amanda Smerage - about what goes into a PWHL broadcast, how things are different for Takeover Tour games, how they adjusted when the on-air announcers weren't able to make it to site due to flight issues, and what it meant to them to be the first all-female producer-director tandem for a PWHL broadcast.Tuesday, January 21, 2025Miami Heat's Kurt Doster on the Immediate Impact of Their New Control Room, Flame Ball CenterhungIt's been an incredible two-year transformation at the Miami Heat's Kaseya Center. Headlined by a recently renovated IP-based control room in 2023 and a new Flame Ball centerhung in 2024, the three-time NBA Champions are positioning themselves for a bright future in South Florida.
Miami Heat's Director of Arena Video Production, Kurt Doster, explains how the team has adapted to the new workflows in the control room and how their dynamic videoboard is adding a new wrinkle to their productions.Tuesday, January 21, 2025Program Productions' Bob Carzoli on Industry Vets Joining the Company, Expanding Through AcquisitionProgram Productions has made significant strides over the past year, but nothing exemplifies their progress more than two industry legends — former CBS Sports Chairman and Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Sean McManus and longtime ESPN executive Carol Stiff — joining their Board of Managers Advisory Committee.
Program Productions Chairman Bob Carzoli highlights the impact and expertise of these two individuals and how their company has expanded through numerous acquisitions made in 2024.Friday, January 17, 2025Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Sean McManus on the Authenticity of September 5 FilmSports and news coverage were forever changed after the 1972 Munich massacre. These events, as well as the expert and instinctual decisions made by the production team of ABC Sports, are chronicled in the film, September 5.
Former CBS Sports Chairman and Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Sean McManus — who is the son of Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Jim McKay— recounts his experience of being inside of the control room on that fateful day, how CBS Sports' facility in New York City prepared the cast for the film, and the moments in the film that stood out to him the most.Thursday, January 16, 2025Dome Productions' Mary Ellen Carlyle on Their New Home in Toronto, Launching Broadcasts for the PHWLDome Productions added three feathers to an already filled cap: they moved out of Rogers Centre and into a new facility in Toronto, helped launch productions for the re-imagined Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), and lifted Amazon's Monday Night Hockey in Canada off the ground.
Dome Productions' SVP and GM Mary Ellen Carlyle outlined their move away from their longtime home in the MLB Stadium, the work that went into these two new sports properties, and the innovations down the line in 2025.Tuesday, January 14, 2025NBC Sports & Olympics' Darryl Jefferson on the Beauty of Paris 2024, Packed 2025 With NBA's ReturnParis captivated the attention of the sports world this summer as the host city of the 2024 Summer Olympics. NBC Sports, who has served as the domestic broadcaster for many years, continued their history of stellar coverage from the Opening Ceremony on the Seine River to the Closing Ceremony in Stade de France.
NBC Sports and Olympics's SVP of Engineering and Technology, Darryl Jefferson, breaks down the high points and overall pageantry of the Games during their time in the City of Light, where they are in the planning process for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, and why 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the company.Tuesday, January 14, 2025NEP Group's Josh Liemer on the Connected Solutions Rebrand, Another Season of MLS Season PassHeading into the new year, NEP Group renamed its domestic services and facilities into one cohesive brand. VISTA Worldlink, the South Florida-based company responsible for many remote productions and the backbone of Apple's MLS Season Pass, will now go by NEP Connected Solutions.
President of NEP Connected Solutions, Josh Liemer, explains why providing "connected solutions" brings more customer satisfaction, what went behind the rebrand and how it'll impact clients, and previews the plethora of projects in 2025.Monday, January 13, 2025Chicago Sports Network's Rob Shaw on Successful Launch in October, Connecting With Fans Through DTCThe landscape of regional sports network is changing, but despite the challenges that may lie ahead, this sector of the industry continues to adapt and evolve in order to survive. After sunsetting the NBC Sports Chicago brand in September 2024, the new Chicago Sports Network took its place to serve fans of the NHL's Blackhawks, MLB's White Sox, and NBA's Bulls.
Chicago Sports Network's Chief Revenue Officer Rob Shaw recaps the launch of the network in October, spotlights what fans can experience on their direct-to-consumer platform, and the most anticipated aspects of coverage in 2025.Friday, January 10, 2025CBS Sports' Jason Cohen on Starting 2024 With Super Bowl LVIII, Ending With Xmas Football on NetflixIt was another Super Bowl year for CBS Sports, and the network was treated to an overtime thriller in Las Vegas. Super Bowl LVIII wasn't the sole noteworthy football event on their docket as CBS Sports produced Netflix's inaugural Christmas Day doubleheader.
CBS Sports' SVP of Remote Technical Operations, Jason Cohen, relives the effort that went into the NFL's biggest game at Allegiant Stadium and the streamer's maiden voyage in the NFL, sheds light on the unexpectedness of working in the sports-video-production industry, and runs though the numerous productions on their plate over the next 12 months.Wednesday, January 8, 2025NFL's Chris Vassallo on Leveraging Tech to Enhance Replay and Adding Optical TrackingWith the NFL increasingly playing games overseas, it presents a unique challenge for the league to maintain its various tech enhancements and investments - from replay to player tracking, and more - across all stadiums.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Chris Vassallo, Director, Stadium Infrastructure & Football Technology at the NFL shares what's of top priority for the league and how they continue to find areas to invest to improve the live game experience.Wednesday, January 8, 2025NHL's Grant Nodine on Innovating Live Game Production in the CloudIn 2024, the NHL innovated in numerous areas of the live broadcast and overall workflow of video content and distribution. Perhaps, most notably, the work the league has done in the realm of live cloud production is making the most significant impact.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Grant Nodine, SVP, Technology at the NHL spoke about what the cloud is enabling, the league's work with AWS, and more.Wednesday, January 8, 2025PGA TOUR's Michael Raimondo on the Impact of Live Drone TracingA major innovation in the broadcasting of live golf has been the addition of AR-graphic-driven tracing of shots coming from a live drone.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Michael Raimondo, VP, Broadcast Technology at PGA TOUR Entertainment shares what goes into making that happen and why it's become a go-to shot for producers.Wednesday, January 8, 2025NBA's Barney Carleton on the Production Lessons Learned from All-Star and NBA Cup InnovationsThe NBA is always at the forefront of innovation in 2024, some of the most notable advancements and experimentations occurred at All-Star Weekend and in the NBA Cup.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Barney Carleton, Senior Director, Broadcast Planning and Strategy at the NBA shares what was learned, how challenging it is to put video into an interactive basketball court, and much more.Wednesday, January 8, 2025NBC Sports' Molly Solomon on Covering the Fast-Paced Paris Games, What's to Come in Milano-CortinaLess than five years ago, NBC Sports was operating under stringent COVID-related guidelines to produce broadcasts of both the postponed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Fast forward to this past summer, and the network enjoyed a pre-pandemic atmosphere with behind-the-scenes access to the athletes and the thrill of packed crowds in Paris.
NBC Sports' Executive Producer & President of NBC Olympics Production, Molly Solomon, speaks about how this return to normalcy revitalized their coverage, how the introduction of Gold Zone on Peacock became a must-watch product, and the excitement that's building for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina.Tuesday, January 7, 2025Chicago Sports Network's Rob Shaw on the New RSN's GoalsThe newest Regional Sports Network in the industry launched this fall with the debut of the Chicago Sports Network.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Rob Shaw, Chief Revenue Officer of Chicago Sports Network talks about what went into the launch and how the RSN hopes to innovate.Tuesday, January 7, 2025MSG Networks' David Schafer on the New York RSN's New XR StudioNew York-based MSG Networks has turned into the studio for its latest push for broadcast innovation, investing in the construction of a new XR studio.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, David Schafer, SVP Product, Technology & Operations at MSG Networks shares what went into that project and how the usage of it has gone so far.Tuesday, January 7, 2025MLB's Doug Johnson on Bringing National-Level Production Tools to In-Market TelecastsMajor League Baseball's Local Media division has taken on the unique task of producing and distributing live in-market game broadcasts of numerous clubs with the portfolio expanding this offseason.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Doug Johnson, SVP and Executive Producer, Local Media for MLB shared how it has offered a fun challenge of bringing levels of production innovation normally reserved for national broadcasts to a regional telecast. Also, what's been a hit and what's next?Tuesday, January 7, 2025NBC Sports Bay Area's Devon Fox on Innovating the Live Game Broadcast with Budgets TighteningIt's no secret that the regional sports network industry is facing trying financials waters, but that hasn't kept a network like NBC Sports Bay Area continuing to innovate on its live game broadcasts, particularly those of MLB's San Francisco Giants and the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Devon Fox, Senior Director of Live Events & Special Projects at NBC Sports Bay Area & California shares how her team manages budgets while still delivering a top-flight live game production.Tuesday, January 7, 2025Game Creek Video's Pat Sullivan on Rolling Out New Trucks for NFL Games on ESPN, FOX Sports in 2025Game Creek Video always strives to make additions to its already packed fleet of production trucks, and 2025 will be no exception. Making their presence felt on ESPN's Monday Night Football and FOX Sports' top-tier NFL games next season, these trucks will hit the road in the early part of the calendar.
Game Creek Video's President Pat Sullivan provides a preview of these new mobile units, outlines both sports-related and non-sports-related work ahead in the coming year, and comments on how trends like cloud-based workflows and remote production will play a role in their business.Monday, January 6, 2025ESPN's Tina Thornton Points to "The Simpsons Funday Football" as Her Highlight of 2024At a company as busy as ESPN, picking the most innovative or impactful broadcast of the year is a daunting task, however, the network ended 2024 with a bang with a pair of animated alternate broadcasts in "The Simpsons Funday Football" and "Dunk the Halls."
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Tina Thornton, EVP, Creative Studio and Marketing for ESPN reflected on why this flavor of alternate broadcast is so intriguing for the the future of the live sports industry.Monday, January 6, 2025MLB Network's Jason Hedgcock on the Lasting Broadcast Impact of the 2024 Seoul SeriesThe 2024 Major League Baseball season was full of highlights from a special game celebrating the Megro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Alabama to a star-studded, bi-coastal clash in the World Series.
From a broadcast perspective, however, one of the more critical moments came right at the start of the season when the league hosted the first two games of the regular season (between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers) in Seoul, South Korea.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Jason Hedgcock, Senior Director, Remote Technical Operations at MLB Network shared how the workflows used to broadcast those games around the world are changing how his network plans for future events.Monday, January 6, 2025CBS Sports' Jason Cohen on How Super Bowl LVIII Was a Comeback Party for the Legacy NetworkSuper Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas was a massive party and clearly one of the major highlights of the 2024 sports calendar in the United States. For CBS Sports, it was a huge achievement and, in many ways, a reemergence for CBS Sports who last broadcast a Super Bowl during the COVID lockdowns.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Jason Cohen, SVP, Remote Technical Operations for CBS Sports explains why the 2024 Super Bowl was such an important event for the busy CBS staff.Monday, January 6, 2025MLB Network's Jason Hedgcock on Integrating Cloud-Based, Non-Traditional Workflows to Streamline OpsStarting their 2024 regular season in Seoul, South Korea and producing a number of events outside of the United States, Major League Baseball has become a league without borders. Throughout these productions, MLB Network has been there every step of the way to assist their international rightsholders.
MLB Network's Senior Director of Remote Technical Operations, Jason Hedgcock, details how cloud-based workflows allowed these global broadcasts to be done efficiently and how they've integrated non-traditional methods of production to streamline their efforts.Friday, January 3, 2025NEP Broadcast Services' Mike Werteen on Budgets Challenges Also Facing International MarketsMany of the financial challenges facing the live sports production business in the United States are also happening globally.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, NEP Broadcast Services' Global President Mike Werteen shares how his compnay is continuing to invest in making the biggest shows bigger while much of the innovation is happening at the Tier 3 and Tier 4 level.Friday, January 3, 2025Game Creek Video's Pat Sullivan on Investing in At-Home Production Workflows and FacilitiesAs the budgets of sports broadcasters tighten in the wake of rising rights feeds and general inflation, a big segment of the industry is turning to at-home production workflows to reduce travel, maximize staff, and streamline gear-usages.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Game Creek Video's President Pat Sullivan shares how investing smartly in at-home production workflows has been critical to both helping clients trim budget and maintain the health of the truck business.Friday, January 3, 2025How Remote Production Companies are Helping Sports Broadcasters Battle the Budget "Squeeze"In live sports production, Tier 1 shows are getting bigger while other shows regularly see their budgets getting pinched. How are mobile production facility providers responding to this tough reality?
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Dome Productions' SVP and GM Mary Ellen Carlyle, and Program Productions' Chairman Robert Carzoli offer their takes on facilities, staffing, and saving money.Friday, January 3, 2025Mobile TV Group's Nick Garvin on Innovating to Help Clients Combat Budget SqueezesAs sports broadcast professionals are asked to do more with less, the onus on developing infrastructure solutions falls on the shoulders of the remote production industry.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Mobile TV Group's CEO Nick Garvin expressed how innovation is the key to either elevating the viewing experience or saving money and how that's hi favorite part of his job.Thursday, January 2, 2025PGA TOUR's Mike Raimondo on the Opening of Their Huge New Media Production FacilityThe PGA TOUR’s 2025 season gets underway with The Sentry tournament Jan. 2-5 in Maui, HI. For the sports-production community, the real action is more than 4,600 miles away at the newly opened PGA TOUR Studios in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. The 165,000-sq.-ft building will transform not only PGA TOUR operations but the way content is produced and distributed for fans around the world.
Mike Raimondo, VP, Broadcast Technology at the PGA TOUR spoke with SVG's Brandon Costa about the highlights of the facility, how it will enable the league to execute a new "world feed" production, and how this all takes golf to a new media world.Monday, December 23, 2024ESPN's Tina Thornton on Producing The Simpsons Funday Football, Dunk the Halls Alternative BroadcastThe holiday season has been filled with alternative broadcasts, but none is more suited for this time of year than ESPN's Dunk the Halls animated broadcast between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs on Christmas Day. The matchup at noon ET will feature the roster of both teams, along with everyone's favorite Disney characters, on a recreated version of the court on Main Street, USA.
ESPN's EVP, Creative Studio and Marketing, Tina Thornton previews what lies ahead for the NBA game, reflects on the work that went into The Simpsons Funday Football, and how their commitment to alternative broadcasts ties into the network's larger direct-to-consumer approach.Friday, December 20, 2024LTN's Colin Moran on Enabling Customers to Maintain Higher Content VisibilityThe sports-video-production industry is ultra competitive, and broadcasters are always looking for ways to stand out amongst the rest. With the help of LTN, clients are able to achieve the quality that they seek and expand their reach through other avenues of productions like second-screen experiences.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, LTN's VP of Production Products, Colin Moran, breaks down how they're allowing their customers to maintain a higher rate of visibility, why it's important to attend these networking and industry-driven events, and more.Friday, December 20, 2024Tata Communications' Elio Parente on Tapping Into the Company's Media Cloud InfrastructureSince acquiring The Switch in May 2023, Tata Communications has continued to merge their own services with The Switch's expertise in the business to greater a much stronger and cohesive entity.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Tata Communications Global Head of Solutions Architecture, Elio Parente, to discuss how this acquisition is paying dividends nearly two years later, how this combined effort is strengthening their Media Cloud Infrastructure, and how facilities like Victory Studios in Los Angeles as well as other new workflows will propel the company to success in 2025.Thursday, December 19, 2024Actor John Magaro Studied CBS Sports on NFL Sundays to Prepare For His Role in September 5While preparing for his role in the Golden Globe-nominated film September 5, actor John Magaro visited the control room of CBS Sports on NFL Sundays to ensure he researched an authentic recreation of a live sports control room environment.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Magaro shared what he learned from those visits, why it wasn't nearly as loud as he expected it to be, and how it helps shape the film's feel.Thursday, December 19, 2024Geoffrey Mason, Sean McManus on ABC Sports Remaining in Control of the Munich Massacre CoverageWhen a hostage situation turned ABC Sports' coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics into a hard news situation, ABC executives wanted to turn the story over to its news division. The iconic Roone Arledge didn't let it happen.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, former ABC Sports producer Geoffrey Mason and
the retired chairman of CBS Sports Sean McManus - the son of broadcaster Jim McKay, who was on-air reporting during the Munich Massacre - shared what that negotiation was like and if they still agree with that decision today.Thursday, December 19, 2024Geoffrey Mason on How He Got Involved in the Production of September 5A young ABC Sports producer at the time, Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Geoffrey Mason and his colleagues were thrust into a dynamic and dramatic situation when the events of the Munich Massacre unfolded at the 1972 Olympics.
Now the subject of a Golden Globe-nominated feature film, Mason reflects on how he got involved in this retelling of the day from the unique perspective of a sports broadcasting control room during a panel discussion at the 2024 SVG Summit.Thursday, December 19, 2024Actor John Magaro on Playing the Role of Geoffrey Mason in September 5In the new Golden Globe-nominated motion picture, September 5, actor John Magaro plays the role of upstart producer Geoffrey Mason as the ABC Sports control room navigates broadcasting the events of the Munich Massacre.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Magaro shared what he wanted to capture in embodying Mason and how he wanted to be a part of a story that honored the legacies of those involved in a horrible day.Thursday, December 19, 2024NBC Olympics' Molly Solomon, Joe Gesue on the Philosophy Behind Programming the Primetime BlockAs viewer's habits change, primetime on NBC remains a cornerstone of NBC Olympics coverage. That fact was still true at the successful 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Joe Gesue, SVP, Olympics & Paralympics Programming and Executive Editor for NBC Sports and Molly Solomon, Executive Producer & President and NBC Olympics Production explained their strategy behind Primetime and what they learned this time around.Thursday, December 19, 2024NBC Olympics' Darryl Jefferson on Experimenting With Cloud Production During the Paris GamesThe Paris Olympics were a broadcast technology triumph but even at an event as massive as this, some experimentation was going on inside the NBC Sports team.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Darryl Jefferson, SVP, Engineering and Technology for NBC Sports and Olympics offered a peek at some work his did behind-the-scenes in cloud production and how it could impact future Games.Thursday, December 19, 2024NBC Olympics Amy Rosenfeld, Darryl Jefferson on Bringing a Team of Thousands TogetherThe NBC Olympics executive team is relatively small for the scale and scope of the event. The challenge, however, is when it comes to the Games themselves, thousands of people positioned around the globe make the event possible for American viewers to consume.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Amy Rosenfeld, SVP, Olympics & Paralympics Production for NBC Sports and Darryl Jefferson, SVP, Engineering and Technology for NBC Sports and Olympics share how culturally and technologically so many people are pulled together to make television magic.Thursday, December 19, 2024NBC Olympics' Molly Solomon on Changing the Approach to Scenic Shots at Paris GamesThe Summer Olympics in Paris were a sight to behold. The unique nature of the host city and its venues inspired NBC Sports to take a different approach to how it captured the city.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, Molly Solomon, Executive Producer & President of NBC Olympics Production explains why the team went "street level" to capture the event.Thursday, December 19, 2024LiveU's Janel Moorefield on Adding Flexibility to Cloud-Based, IP-Driven ProductionsKnown as a company that's not afraid to embrace innovation, LiveU developed a handful of services that allows their customers to capture and distribute high-quality video with minimal disruptions.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, LiveU's VP of Sales, Sports, Janel Moorefield, chronicles the biggest highlights of the year, how the company made a splash during NBC Sports' coverage of the Summer Olympics in Paris, how products like LiveU Studio is bolstering their clients' work in the cloud, and how solutions like LiveU IQ will make IP-based productions a lot easier over the next year.Thursday, December 19, 2024AWS's Julie Souza on Globalization's Impact on Live Event ProductionDomestic sports leagues are taking live games overseas — the NFL hosted five international games this season, the NHL kicked off the year with a handful of games in Europe, and Major League Baseball played their first game of the regular season in South Korea. As a leading provider of cloud-based solutions and a company that's bullish on meeting their customers' needs wherever they are, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is paying more attention to how globalization is shifting where games are played and how their technology can help make their clients' jobs easier.
At the 2024 SVG Summit, AWS's Global Head of Sports, Julie Souza, stops by to discuss the progress of cloud-based workflows made in 2024, how trends in the industry like generative AI will factor into their business, and how tech is assisting with productions taking place around the globe.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Andrea KremerAndrea Kremer is one of the most accomplished and widely respected journalists in the history of sports media. A recipient of multiple Emmys and a Peabody, she is a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. Acclaimed for her long-form journalism and storytelling prowess, Kremer has held prestigious roles at NFL Network, HBO, Amazon Prime Video, CBS Sports Network, NBC Sports, and ESPN, among others.
She has worked on more than 30 Super Bowls, NBA Finals, Summer and Winter Olympic Games, MLB All-Star Games and League Championship Series, NCAA football bowl games, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and Finals, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and the PGA Championship. Named one of the greatest female sportscasters of all time, Kremer made history as NFL Films’ first female producer; ESPN’s first female correspondent; and the first full-time female NFL game analyst, for Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Chris MortensenHere’s a plain fact: nobody who knew Chris Mortensen will ever forget him. Known to many as Mort, he was a journalist who joined ESPN as an NFL Insider in 1991 and built a reputation for his knowledge, integrity, and fairness. Players, owners, agents, and everybody at ESPN loved him, trusted him. And his impact lives on.
When Mortensen, who died in March at the age of 72, joined ESPN as a regular contributor to the network’s NFL shows and SportsCenter, he quickly became known as one of the ultimate NFL insiders, capable of getting the type of breaking news that made ESPN a must-watch for not only NFL hardcore fans but also those who worked for NFL teams, whether in the front office or on the field. In 2016, he received the Pro Football Writers of America’s Dick McCann Award and was honored during the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s enshrinement ceremony that year.
The award for was accepted by his son AlexThursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Tommy RoyTommy Roy started his career at NBC in 1981 as a production assistant and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming executive producer of NBC Sports for 12 years. A winner of 29 Emmy Awards, he was the original producer of the iconic NBA on NBC, which included coverage of Michael Jordan and the Bulls’ first three championships. Roy has worked on seven Super Bowls, serving as executive producer on three, including the game telecast for Super Bowl XXXII when John Elway and the Denver Broncos finally won the title. At the Olympics, he produced the coverage of basketball’s original Dream Team and has produced the swimming coverage of every medal-winning race by Michael Phelps, highlighted by his incredible eight gold medals at the Beijing Games.
Today, Roy is best-known for his work in golf, where he has produced 25 U.S. Opens, eight British Opens, every Ryder Cup since 1993, and scores of PGA TOUR and LPGA events. As executive producer, he oversaw coverage of tennis’s French Open and Wimbledon; horseracing’s Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont; and NASCAR’s Daytona 500.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Philip GarvinSimply put, the live-sports-production business would not exist in its current form if not for Philip Garvin. From spearheading the first-ever live HD sports broadcasts to creating innovative production models for the regional-sports market and so much more, he had an indelible impact on the sports-broadcasting industry during five decades in the business.
Almost 50 years ago, Garvin launched Colorado Studios, providing a foundation that would lead to the launch of Mobile TV Group in 1994. MTVG would become the go-to provider of mobile units for RSN productions across the country, while he built a reputation as one of most widely respected figures in the entire sports-broadcasting industry. Garvin, who died in August at the age of 76, played a pivotal role in the HD revolution of the early 2000s as co-founder of HDNet and spearheaded the early days of live 4K and HDR sports productions more than a decade later. On the regional side, Garvin and the team at MTVG created the “dual-feed” production model in the 1990s and the Cloud Control production model in the 2020s. Both provided regional sports networks with game-changing new efficiencies without sacrificing production quality.
Mobile TV Group CEO Nick Garvin accepted the HOF statue on behalf of his late father.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Mark LazarusMark Lazarus’ career in sports media has spanned more than three decades, during which he has helped shepherd the industry through the changing media landscape and has been a key player in landmark sports-rights deals as president of sports at two major media companies: Turner Broadcasting and NBCUniversal. He served as chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group until last month, when it was announced that he will take over as CEO of NBCU’s new “SpinCo” company, primarily comprising the cable networks.
Under Lazarus’s leadership, NBCU Media Group forged new deals with the Olympics, NBA, NFL, PGA TOUR, Big 10, NASCAR, and the Premier League, among many other partnerships. He has overseen seven Olympics, including this summer’s landmark Paris Games, which garnered record-breaking engagement and cross-platform viewership.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Charlie CarlucciCharlie Carlucci spent 36 years redefining the role of graphics operator for CBS Sports. After beginning with the network in 1980, he worked across nearly every property at CBS Sports — including the Super Bowl, Masters, Final Four, and US Open — and did so at the highest levels. He changed the very nature of graphics creation, and his graphics work helped shape the live production of six Super Bowls, 35 Masters Tournaments, 25 PGA Championships, 34 March Madness tournaments, and much more.
Although fonts, statistics, colors, and images were at the core of what he did, the key to his success was his ability to be a good listener and a strong leader. He was known as for incredible sports knowledge, his incomparable comedic talents and sense of humor, his ability to continuously adapt to and integrate new technology, and a personality that created calm in the most stressful situations.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Hubie BrownLongevity in the sports-broadcasting industry can be hard to achieve, but a select few have withstood the test of time. One of those iron horses is NBA on ESPN analyst Hubie Brown, a beloved member of the basketball fraternity who has experienced nearly everything you can in the game: a state champion at the high school level and four-year standout at Niagara University as a player, a coach for more than four decades, and an analyst honored by induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
One of the greatest NBA analysts of all time, he has been involved with the NBA as either a coach or broadcaster for 50 years and will call it a career following the 2024-25 NBA season. He called the NBA Final for ABC in 2005 and 2006 and then for ESPN radio from 2007 to ’19. Including television and radio across networks, Brown has called a record 18 NBA Finals.
ESPN President of Content Burke Magnus accepted on Brown's behalf.Thursday, December 19, 2024Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Steve GorsuchFor more than 40 years, Steve Gorsuch transformed coverage of golf events for CBS Sports as well as US Open tennis, where he would spend 15 years taking that event to the next level from a production and operations standpoint. His career ranged from being a great camera operator (capturing Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths and Dwight Clark’s famous “The Catch”), to being a technical director, to managing the operations side for some of the biggest events in the country. His ability to handle both technical directing and management for an event blazed a trail for future sports-production professionals.
Gorsuch, who died in March at the age of 74, redefined both tennis and golf operations, oversaw the transition from SD to HD, dabbled in 3D, and was known for having a great understanding not only of how technology works but of people as well.
Accepting on his behalf were his children, Kristen, Ryan, and Scott.