SVG SportsTech On Demand: Sportlogiq
Sportlogiq is remaining focused on its mission of utilizing its technology to provide insights, support and engaging stories to its partners. The company is improving its tools across verticals while looking to the future of sports analytics and storytelling.
Patrick Markey, Director, Business Development, Media for Sportlogiq, shares how Sportlogiq supports NHL media rights holders both before and during this hiatus and also gives a look at upcoming projects around predictive analytics and first-of-its kind NCAA football tracking data.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Clark Wire & Cable
Clark Wire and Cable offers end-to-end solutions for Audio Visual and Broadcast Cabling scopes and provides power enclosures and junction boxes that dip into the electrical scope.
In addition, the company's fiber lab provides certified assemblies that are certified by LEMO and Neutrik.
Special Project Manager John Orona joins us to detail how Clark Wire & Cable works closely with consultants and stay apprised with new technology and upgrades.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Sportzcast
For aspiring broadcasters looking to get professional looking graphics and scoreboard data into their production system as a budget-friendly cost and with minimal technical overhead, Sportzcast is a solid go-to.
Company president Mike Connell joins us to introduce its SportzSuite, SportzDesigner, and CloudFX solutions.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Synamedia
Synamedia is helping PayTV operators, telcos, and media companies change the way they deliver, protect, and monetize their content.
Mark Myslinski, broadcast solutions manager for Synamedia joins us to highlight how NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) will be a gamechanger for the consumption of live sports, in particular with stand-out video quality, immersive audio, and uncontested broadband broadcast.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Focusrite Pro
Ted White, global marketing manager for Focusrite Pro joins us to point out that the challenges wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has made almost every production a remote production and will inevitably change broadcast and other production workflows. In some ways, for the better.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Imagine Communications
At Texas A&M University, each of its sports venues are set up for both broadcast coverage and audience enrichment via scoreboards and other public screens. All seven athletic venues are now linked back to a central production area with four control rooms in Kyle Field, the college's football stadium.
In this interview, Cassidy Phillips, VP SA, networking group for Imagine Communications breaks down how these links use SMPTE ST 2110 IP connectivity over fiber, providing 32 bidirectional HD links between any location, using Imagine Selenio Network Processors (SNP) as gateways and for video processing. The network, an important stepping stone to all-IP production, provides flexibility and resilience.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Solid State Logic
Thomas Jensen, VP, Technical Operations at Solid State Logic, joins us to talk about how the SSL System T provides an IP backbone of SMPTE 2110 for the new $125m state-of-the-art NBCUniversal Boston Media Center.
Jensen specifically discusses the technologies involved and interoperability between vendors, highlighting how System T and headless TCR control units across remote connections and KVMs contribute to NBCU’s example-leading facility infrastructure.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Red Bee Media
Red Bee, a globally-managed services provider covering most needs across the media supply chain, has not only kept regular operations up and running through challenging times but has also managed to deliver on transformation projects and new requests – including migrating international TV-channels into their managed services operations and delivering access services for global broadcasts with all teams collaborating remotely while working from home.
Company CEO Steve Nylund stops by to share how Red Bee is providing a steady hand in an unpredictable world, combining operational excellence with innovative global cloud-based platforms, practically impossible to develop for independent broadcasters and content owners.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: The Weather Company, an IBM Business
Weather can wreak havoc on operations and the fan experience at outdoor sporting events costing millions of dollars.
Scott Eliot, offering manager, The Weather Company, an IBM Business, joins us to share solutions that not only provide critical logistical information to assist and alert workers and fans to improve engagement and revenue, but, most importantly, to keep crews on site safe.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Pliant Technologies
Gary Rosen, VP, Global Sales at Pliant Technologies stops by to discuss the company’s latest wireless intercom solutions, including MicroCom XR, for applications where high-quality audio, extended range, and ease-of-use are essential, and Pliant SmartBoom professional headsets, as well as updates to its CrewCom wireless intercom system.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: C360
In these uncertain times, C360 can be used as a live and enhanced replay tool with its UHD and HD-SDI outputs for on-site or REMI productions. And perhaps more profoundly, a way to connect fans to live sports via a 1-to-1 OTT experience when they can’t be there in person.
CEO Evan Wimer joins us to dissect these deployments and highlights the company's George Wensel Technical Achievement Award nomination for the immersive system embedded in Line-to-Gain pylons and first down marker this past season on ESPN's Monday Night Football and college football telecasts.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: NTP
NTP Technology’s National Sales Manager, North America Kurt Howell talks viewers through the new NTP-721s, its next-generation audio router and audio distribution interface, which provides versatile and flexible interface for signal distribution of digital audio via AES/EBU, MADI, DANTE, optical fiber networks, and an expansion slot for any of the 8 expansion cards available from NTP.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Diversified
In today’s world of e-commerce, apps, and social media, building your brand is key. Viewers and consumers no longer want to just buy a product or subscribe; they want to be engaged on a deeper level.
Additionally, as software orchestration leans more microservices-based, doors have opened to third party integration, automation, and centralization.
Considering both points, this evolution requires a new approach to media workflow, thinking about the psychology and technology together.
Diversified’s unique proprietary process analyzes Key Performance Indicators to not only design media asset management tools but also, reverse engineer the content creation process for faster ROI.
Our Kristian Hernandez sat down with Liz Davis, VP, media workflow group at Diversified to chat about the company’s efforts.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Telestream
As streaming services boom even further in the age of coronavirus lockdown, broadcasters are becoming more and more sophisticated in their ability to monitor their live streams and to identify and quickly remedy issues in delivery to the viewer.
Telestream's Director, Product Management Kenneth Haren joins us to update one of the industry's most popular tools in this services: Telestream's OptiQ Monitor, which delivers visibility around OTT streaming services to enable better audience outcomes.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Fujifilm
Fujifilm is releasing the latest developments to Fujinon lenses and provides information regarding new technologies such as Advanced Focus, RBF, and ARIA.
Gordon Tubbs, VP, broadcast and cinema products for Fujifilm North America, joins us to discuss what's new.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Dale Pro Audio
Dale Pro Audio’s Technology Development Manager Joel Guilbert goes deep into the nuances of broadcast professionals having to work from home during the pandemic.
He also looks into the toolbox for solutions from microphones to use with a laptop, to a wide array of phone and IP audio interfaces, streaming encoders and more.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Arista Networks
The speed and reliability of the network have never been more important. Arista Networks' has become the only network platform with proven reliability, scalability, programmability, and real-time analytics that are the foundation for media and entertainment.
Arista's Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances Ed Chapman and M&E Technical Solutions Architect Robert Welch highlight CloudVision, a tool that provides real-time information, switches that scale to 288 400G ports, Power Over Ethernet with PTP boundary clock capability for digital signage customers, enhanced features for service provider and esports customers, and more.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: VITAC
VITAC has been on-call setting up clients with accessible remote working options while walking others through the process of closed captioning for virtual meetings and events who may be offering captioning for the very first time.
The company is working closely with broadcast partners to ensure timely, accurate captions during these times of uncertainty and crisis.
Our Brandon Costa sat down with CEO Chris Crowell to chat about the company’s efforts.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Cisco Systems
Today, the unprecedented increase in remote working requires technology to step in to help create interpersonal connections.
For over five years, Cisco has been building collaboration solutions to support remote workers. With security built into Cisco Webex DNA, the company provides the business grade, integrated collaboration capabilities needed to keep people connected and business running.
Diana Candela, regional manager, media & entertainment, Cisco Systems addresses how Cisco has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the solutions it has been working on that make a difference to sports broadcasters, and trends Cisco is seeing from its broadcast customers.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Brainstorm Electronics
Brainstorm Electronics’ new DXD family of products combines the company’s traditional strengths in Time Code, Video Sync and Word Clock with PTP and GPS.
Company President Bernard Frings explains that the idea behind the DXD is to combine all the different types of syncs currently available in a single unit thus guaranteeing that every piece of equipment is properly synchronized, ideal for hybrid installations.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Arvato Systems
Ben Davenport, portfolio manager for Arvato Systems joins us to offer a look at VPMS EditMate – Arvato's PAM for Adobe Premiere Pro – and how it's helping customers at this challenging time.
The product, which launched at NAB 2019, allows users to add a MPEG-Dash-based streaming server so they can stream content from a central location directly into the editor. As a result, a editor located remotely can have the experience of working with full-res content rather than proxies.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: PRG
Like all companies, PRG has been working through ways they can pivot across the business in their response to the coronavirus. For sports, they’ve put together a few concepts and services to help teams drive engagement with their fans.
SVP, Sports & Fan Entertainment Eileen Valois joins us to talk through the empty stadium and arena environment as teams return to the field of play, gamification to assist professional athletes and their esports pop-up leagues, and experiential activations in dark stadium spaces as a way to safely connect the communities and put some of their people back to work.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Quantum
Quantum's CEO, Chairman, and President Jamie Lerner joins us to discuss how Quantum and its partners are helping media customers work remotely during the pandemic, how Quantum’s ActiveScale object store system is enabling customers to create online content archives, previews Quantum’s latest NVMe high performance storage solutions for post-production.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Blackmagic Design
Bob Caniglia, director, sales Operations, North America for Blackmagic Design joins us to discuss Blackmagic's new ATEM Mini Pro, a live production switcher with all the features of ATEM Mini but now also featuring a new hardware streaming engine, support for recording the stream direct to USB flash disks in H.264, support for recording to multiple disks for continuous recording, and a multiview on the HDMI video output.
In addition, he breaks down its new software update for the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and 6K models that includes powerful studio camera features, and HyperDeck v7.1 software update that adds multiple new features to HyperDeck Studio Mini broadcast recorders.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Audio-Technica
Gary Dixon, Product Manager at Audio-Technica, discusses the impact and benefits of the company’s recently introduced Wireless Manager software, a Mac OS/Windows application for remote configuration, control, monitoring, spectrum management, and frequency coordination of compatible Audio-Technica devices in sound-reinforcement or installed-sound applications.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: AJA Video Systems
Bryce Button, director, product marketing for AJA Video Systems explores how industry trends like streaming, HDR and 8K are impacting sports production workflows and how AJA technology supports these workflows.
He also provides a closer look at AJA streaming solutions like HELO and U-TAP as well as AJA KONA and Io products, while also covering HDR tools like the FS-HDR, HDR Image Analyzer and HDR Image Analyzer 12G, among other HDR solutions that AJA develops.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Clear-Com
Clear-Com president Bob Boster joins our audio expert Dan Daley to discuss the launch of two new products in the U.S.
The FreeSpeak Edge digital intercom system features new 5GHz technology, which allows for optimum audio performance with ultra-low latency.
The EclipseHX version 12 is an AoIP matrix suitable for installs that include video, data, and audio over SMPTE2110.
Boster also discusses addressing COVID-19 with Clear-Com communications solutions across various markets, especially focusing on the role of the Agent-IC mobile intercom app in today’s work-from-home conditions.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Net Insight
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating media transformation and the large-scale adoption of IP and cloud-based workflows.
To ensure a flexible workflow, and ultimately a more engaging viewing experience, cloud and openness are the core strategies for contribution and distribution in the eyes of Net Insight.
Per Lindgren, co-founder and CTO, Media Networks for Net Insight joins us to highlight how to cater for the need of more agile workflows especially for sport content production and distribution, and how to leverage the cloud and internet for more autonomy and flexibility.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Haivision
Haivision has been coming up clutch for broadcasters looking to distribute live content in a remote working environment.
Chief Commercial Officer and EVP, Strategic Partnerships Peter Maag shares some of the solutions that are meeting the needs of this new world while updating you on the latest growth of the popular SRT protocol.
SVG SportsTech On Demand: Spectra Logic
Hossein ZiaShakeri, SVP, business development and strategic alliances, for Spectra Logic joins us to discuss the company's transformation to one that provides modern and comprehensive data storage and data management solutions for media and entertainment companies that want to obtain insight, automation, management, and protection of their growing asset repositories.
In addition, he coverd Spectra's latest advancements in storage management software, object storage, and tape.
Advancing the Creation, Production and Distribution of Sports Content.The Sports Video Group was formed in 2006 to support the professional community that relies on video, audio, and broadband technologies to produce and distribute sports content.
