{"id":130985,"date":"2017-12-14T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/?p=130985"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:57:40","slug":"svg-summit-fox-sports-david-neal-kevin-callahan-offer-inside-peek-at-their-fifa-world-cup-production-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/2017\/12\/14\/svg-summit-fox-sports-david-neal-kevin-callahan-offer-inside-peek-at-their-fifa-world-cup-production-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG Summit 2017: Fox Sports\u2019 David Neal, Kevin Callahan Offer Inside Peek at Their FIFA World Cup Production Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While much has been made in the press as to what might happen with Fox Sports\u2019 coverage of the FIFA World Cup following the untimely qualification exit of the U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team, it was clear during a keynote conversation at this week\u2019s SVG Summit that there\u2019s no taking the foot off the gas for this summer\u2019s massive soccer party.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fox\u2019s FIFA World Cup Executive Producer <strong>David Neal<\/strong> and VP, Field Operations\/Engineering,\u00a0<strong>Kevin Callahan<\/strong> took the stage at The SVG Summit in an interview with SVG\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Ken Kerschbaumer<\/strong> to discuss everything from\u00a0how Fox Sports will program around the event, their technical operations in Moscow at the IBC and across Russia, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire conversation in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Fox Sports Previews 2018 FIFA World Cup Production Plans [FULL CONVERSATION]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o0V2XWnraFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights from the talk:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Callahan and Neal recently returned from a series of broadcaster meetings held with FIFA and its Host Broadcast Services to lay out further plans for this summer&#8217;s World Cup. Neal offered a peek inside some of what was discussed there:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Fox Sports&#039; David Neal Offers the Recent FIFA World Cup Broadcaster Meetings\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mvc0iKlXYg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host Broadcast Services (HBS), which produces all live coverage of every World Cup match, has a policy with all of its rights holders that their cut of the game will always be used. Neal says he completely understands why:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Fox Sports&#039; David Neal Expresses His Respect for FIFA&#039;s Host Broadcast Services\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmXxvyumYK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>With a dramatic geographical footprint to face, Callahan outlined how IP will play a key role in connecting the IBC with all of the World Cup venues across Russia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Fox Sports&#039; Kevin Callahan Outlines the Venue Connectivity Plans for World Cup 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3me1HrpJXc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Callahan and Neal break down how many FIFA World Cup matches will be delivered in various forms and flavors, be it on broadcast, cable, in UHD, in Dolby Atmos, etc.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Fox Sports Outlines Where, What Type of World Cup Match Productions Will Be Delivered\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WynCZofVb3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>For more coverage of the SVG Summit, including\u00a0stories, panel highlights, and video interviews from the show floor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/?s=%22SVG+Summit+2017%3A%22\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-131000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"23\" height=\"14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 891w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SummitWorldCupfeatured.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 23px) 100vw, 23px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While much has been made in the press as to what might happen with Fox Sports\u2019 coverage of the FIFA World Cup following the untimely qualification exit of the U.S. [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/2017\/12\/14\/svg-summit-fox-sports-david-neal-kevin-callahan-offer-inside-peek-at-their-fifa-world-cup-production-plans\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9248,33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131124,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130985\/revisions\/131124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}