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<\/a>Former UFC featherweight champion McGregor\u2019s return to the Octagon against Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday is expected to be one of the most-watched UFC events in recent memory.<\/p>\n\u201cConor McGregor is a huge draw for UFC, bringing in pay-per-view numbers upwards of 2 million \u2014 meaning it\u2019s absolutely critical that we deliver the highest-quality live coverage and be sure that the feeds will not drop at any point,\u201d says Garrett Hunt, project manager, Strategic Television<\/strong>. \u201cThe Switch is a trusted partner. They have experience with some of the world\u2019s biggest live sporting events, and their remote-production capabilities are second to none.\u201d<\/p>\n To bring McGregor\u2019s comeback to UFC fans across its biggest international markets, The Switch will provide a suite of solutions, including live studio production, international transmission, editing, and master-control\u2013room (MCR) services. It will deliver both Spanish- and Portuguese-language feeds from two live commentators \u2014 enabling UFC to tap into the huge Latin American and Brazilian markets, where the popularity of MMA has exploded in recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving worked with UFC for the best part of a decade, we are delighted to be supporting it on one of the biggest comebacks in the history of mixed martial arts,\u201d says George Lopez, SVP, operations, The Switch<\/strong>. \u201cConor McGregor\u2019s return is a major sports-broadcast moment, and The Switch is proud to be helping UFC bring it to global audiences. Our long relationships demonstrate the trust major sports organizations have in our production services and the international reach we provide for the live broadcast of the biggest global sporting events. We take great pride in making it simpler for sports organizations and rightsholders to more efficiently produce and deliver their content.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Switch and Strategic Television are teaming up to play a vital role in delivering the international broadcast of former UFC title holder Conor McGregor\u2019s highly anticipated MMA comeback on […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":174798,"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":[12606,16472,4106,709,16471],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174796"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174890,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174796\/revisions\/174890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Having provided remote-production services and transmission of UFC events for more than seven years, The Switch continues to support international-language delivery of major bouts through its studio facility in Burbank, CA, including regular fights taking place on weekends throughout the year and UFC Now events. The Burbank studio receives live feeds from the fight venue, remotely producing them before delivering them globally via satellite downlink.<\/p>\n