Sport Production Summit: Speakers from BBC and NOS added to Paris 2024 panel at Amsterdam event

NOS Sport executive producer Monique Hamer and BBC Sport lead director Sally Richardson will explore how both broadcasters covered the Summer Olympics at SVG Europe’s Sport Production Summit in September.

During the ‘Event Showcase: Paris 2024’ panel, Hamer and Richardson will explain what NOS and the BBC did, and how and why they did it before outlining the challenges faced and overcome, and the lessons learnt.

NOS Sport executive producer Monique Hamer at the IBC in Paris

During the Games, BBC Sport split its production between its headquarters in Salford and Paris – where it had a studio at Trocadero in the OBS broadcaster studio block overlooking the Eiffel Tower, and a small space at the IBC – using a remote production workflow as it has for the past several Summer and Winter Olympics.

And Hamer – who has worked on 19 Olympic Games – will speak about how the Dutch public broadcaster split its operation between its base in Hilversum and two locations in Paris: the IBC, where some 20 staff were based, and Parc de la Villette where around 80 staff were based, and the broadcaster’s evening show was presented from.

Sport Production Summit will take place at De Hallen Studios in Amsterdam on Thursday 12 September.

In addition, Richardson will receive the Outstanding Contribution to European Sports Broadcasting award at Sport Production Summit.

The Award, which is given to an individual who has changed the nature of sports content creation and distribution within Europe. Previous recipients of the Award include Olympic Broadcasting Services founding chief executive Manolo Romero, EMG UK chair and CTV founder Barry Johnstone, HBS founder Francis Tellier, international sport coordinator Velitchka Nedialkova and Graham Fry, former IMG production managing director.

To find out more and to register visit svgeurope.org/sport-production-summit-2024