Al Michaels and Apolo Anton Ohno will play key roles in NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Michaels will host daytime Winter Olympics coverage on NBC […] More
In a world of ever-expanding live sports content, producers are always looking to cut costs and reduce on-site manpower at remote productions, while maintaining the same high level of production […] More
ESPN’s global X Games push made its way to Barcelona last week for the first of two key European stops on its 2013 tour, to be followed by Munich at […] More
The show floor at last month’s NAB Show in Las Vegas was chock-full of postproduction tools that promise to change the way features and highlights editors function in the field and at home. Established NLE (non-linear editing) vendors like Adobe and Avid highlighted new cloud-based workflows that would allow remote-production teams to more easily collaborate […] More
Aframe celebrates its one-year anniversary in the U.S. this week at NAB 2013. The cloud-based production service, which already had an established client-base overseas, entered the U.S. market last year in Vegas, and much has changed in the 12 months since. “Our data centers in New York and L.A. are very much up and running,” […] More
Several remote-production vendors have begun rolling out compact new trucks that boast a smaller footprint, while still packing a strong HD-production punch. Gerling & Associates built the trailers for many of these compact units (including the 40-ft. ProShow Broadcast Maestro HD unit on display at Gerling’s NAB 2013 booth) and expects this market to grow. […] More
Deluxe MediaRecall GM/VP Dan Glasser arrived at NAB 2013 this week ready to embark on one of the largest digitization projects in the history of sports media. With its massive new state-of-the-art facility now up and running in Stamford, CT, NBC Sports Group has tapped MediaRecall (a division of Deluxe Media Services) to digitize, catalog, […] More
NEP Broadcasting continues to grow, with more remote production units on the road than any other vendor. Acquiring Corplex in November, the company added another three HD trucks to its arsenal. SVG sat down with NEP U.S. Mobile Unit President/GM Mike Fernander and Corplex President Scott West to chat about the state of the industry, […] More
Although 4K-production technology has (not surprisingly) been the talk of the show this week, the actual of delivery of 4K content to the home is likely still years away. That said, many exhibitors on the distribution side of the 4K equation — such as SES — are already working to make 4K in the home a reality […] More
iStreamPlanet may not have a booth at the NAB Show this year, but that didn’t stop the company from breaking some big news this week. It announced the beta release of Aventus, its new cloud-based automated platform for delivering live events and linear channels over IP. The Aventus beta partners include Microsoft (in order to […] More
