Welcome to Part 3 of ‘Live Sports Production’ - This multi-part series uses a round table style format to explore the technology of live sports production with some of the industry’s leading broadcast engineers. It is a fascinating insight into what is being done every day around the world.
Part 3 dives a little deeper into the infrastructure differences between Full OB, Full Remote and Hybrid workflows with a particular focus on venue systems. We discuss on-site connectivity, latency, and the flow of monitoring and data across the system. Our contributors are the senior managers for OB and venue systems at NEP Americas and NEP UK.
‘Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast’ explores how exemplary content production and delivery standards are maintained and legal obligations are met. The series includes four Themed Content Collections, each of which tackles a different area of the media supply chain.
Part 3 contains three articles which discuss things to consider for effective and robust monitoring during production. These articles explore three key areas; the necessity to ensure the integrity of video and audio essence at the point of capture, the role of broadcast controllers and orchestration systems in hybrid SDI & IP production network monitoring, and monitoring compute resource in the increasingly complex ecosystem of dedicated hardware, COTS and cloud-compute infrastructure. Our partner Telestream contribute an informative article on HDR Quality Assurance in the production chain.
At the 2025 IBC Show, Riedel Communications will showcase new SimplyLive video production tools, desktop SmartPanel, RefSuite, and more.
Lawo announces the release of HOME 4.0, the latest version of its IP-native management platform. This major update introduces significant architectural improvements, a streamlined licensing model, and greater operational flexibility for broadcasters and media professionals working in infrastructures of any scale.
Ikegami announces a new addition to its UNICAM-XE product range with the introduction of the UHK-X700RF wireless portable camera: The new version has the same feature set, operational ergonomics, compact size and light weight as its wired sister model UHK-X700.
Spedeworth TV has upgraded its live streaming capabilities by integrating LiveU’s lightweight cloud production solution, enabling faster, more reliable and scalable coverage of domestic and world championship motorsport events for fans across the globe.
A combination of factors that includes new 3GPP 5G standards & optimizations that have reduced latencies & jitter, new network slicing capabilities and the availability of new LEO satellite services are bringing increasing momentum to the use of 5G for multi-camera production contribution. European broadcasters including the BBC, Denmark’s TV 2 and RTL in Germany, have been engaged in pioneering production projects.
The proliferation of delivery devices and formats increases the challenges presented by accessibility compliance, but it is an area of rapid AI powered innovation.
