NEP Group has opened a new office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet the growing demand for its services, strengthening the company’s investment and presence in the Middle East. Located in Abu Dhabi, NEP Middle East will provide a wide range of outside broadcast solutions, including both on-site and remote production services, to […] More
By Brian Clark, director of sales, NEP Major Events, NEP Group New innovations throughout the past year have rejuvenated the sports broadcast industry and established new and stronger industry standards. Sports broadcasters are continuing to redefine how future broadcasting will operate as the industry looks ahead to 2022, creating a hybrid future. 2021 has seen […] More
The 2021 US Open heads into its final weekend, and, for the NEP Group, it will close out an event for which more of its personnel than ever were onsite, overseeing world feed operations, operations for selected rights holders, Arthur Ashe digital boards, a virtual flash studio, and more. For NEP engineering manager Nick Romano, […] More
First taking place in drought-struck AlUla, Saudi Arabia, then the sea-threatened Lac Rose area in Senegal, the next race will be in August on sandbars in front of the retreating Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq in Greenland. Bringing the audio of the races and these threatened environments to life is a team of audio experts from […] More
NEP Group has selected Signiant Media Shuttle to enable accelerated file-based operations across its fleet of OB trucks, studios and flypacks. With Media Shuttle, NEP clients can quickly move media assets and associated metadata to and from the venue. The flexibility of Media Shuttle allows NEP to offer fast, secure content exchange globally to any-size […] More
NEP Group has announced that Brian Sullivan will join the company as its new chief executive on 31 August. Sullivan has previously served in executive leadership roles at Fox Networks Group, Sky Germany and Sky UK. Sullivan comes to the NEP team most recently from McKinsey & Company where he served as a senior advisor […] More
A programme of 21 races headlined by the first Classic races of the Flat season was broadcast by ITV last weekend, as live sport returned to UK free-to-air television. Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani led the coverage from 5-7 June, featuring the Qipco 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas with live races from Lingfield, Newcastle and Newmarket. […] More
Creative Technology (CT) UK is home to hundreds of media servers, each with the latest in GPUs and processors. Ordinarily, these servers are key to delivering live events for clients but following the outbreak of COVID-19 throughout Europe and beyond, and the related reduction in live events, CT has found itself in a position to […] More
NEP chairman and chief executive Kevin Rabbitt has released a message on behalf of the broadcast solutions Group setting out its position and its next steps as the world continues to battle the coronavirus outbreak. He writes: “On behalf of our entire NEP Worldwide Network, let me start by saying that our hearts go out […] More
Morten Aass has joined Oslo-based NEP Norway as managing director, effective immediately. NEP Norway is a division of NEP Group, the worldwide outsourced technical production partner supporting premier content producers of live sports and entertainment. Aass will oversee all of NEP’s Norwegian operations, client relationships, broadcast production facilities and a team of more than 100. […] More
