Say you’ve built up a name for yourself producing international live events. You’ve conquered new locations, traversed time zones in both directions, and dragged cables across the international date line on New Year’s Eve to party like it’s 1999. You’ve spent years traveling the globe with literal boatloads of cumbersome production gear. There’s still a world of live events and content out there to produce. How do you choose where on earth to go next?

Abstract – Tasked with producing more live coverage with squeezed resources, broadcasters are turning to at-home/REMI (remote-integration model) production. Correctly implemented, at-home production can reduce the movement of people and equipment; increase the utilization of equipment; reduce on-site set-up times; and maximize the efficiency of production teams. Historically there have been three major challenges with at-home production; Latency and how to mitigate it; Control and how to extend workflows to the venue; Infrastructure and how raw signals are transported back to base. This paper will clearly explain how these issues are now solved by interconnecting and orchestrating distributed production resources over Wide Area Networks. Solutions partners Net Insight, Calrec and Grass Valley will explain in this paper how a shared technology approach is already providing broadcasters with a complete, proven and easy way to generate significantly more live content.

Ideal Systems provides media and audio visual related integration services for the broadcast, telecommunication, government, education and enterprise industries, using the latest and greatest technologies including cloud services, software development, consulting services and live event production and operation.

Having transformed itself culturally and economically in less than three decades, China now stands as an example to follow when it comes to the adoption of new technology – including within its enormous broadcasting sector. Despite having only emerged in the last 30 years, the Chinese television landscape nonetheless accounts for a third of the world’s viewers. Now those increasingly affluent households will have the opportunity of experiencing new immersive content courtesy of the first Dolby ATMOS capable outside broadcast vehicle in the country, with Genelec monitoring at the centre of the set-up.

The challenge

Australian sports venues are spread across a vast geographic territory that is larger than the continental US or Europe. Because much of the country’s interior is sparsely populated, covering events has until now required extensive crew travel hours and expense. Historically it was common for production team members to spend up to two days travelling to cover a one-day project. Meanwhile, the logistics of moving crew between locations meant people and infrastructure were used inefficiently. The fact that Australia’s robust market for live, local television production relies heavily on a small pool of skilled freelancers compounds the issue.

About Streamteam Nordic

One of the largest technical TV production companies in the Nordic region, Finland-based Streamteam Nordic provides live production support for a wide range of sporting events, including the Finnish Elite Ice Hockey League, or SM-liiga, tournament. Since first opening its doors in 2006, the company has become one of the leading broadcast service providers in the region, counting major broadcasters and content providers among its customer base.  Streamteam now handles production for Telia, Veikkaus, MTV3 and YLE as well as Netflix and DreamWorks.

In the country now known as the Czech Republic, in the city of Prague, sits an institution that’s been around nearly as long as modern society itself. This is a university that has survived historical movements, border changes, plagues, crusades, world wars, invasions, national conflicts, and cultural revolutions. Now, 670 years after its founding, its place is secured as 15th in the list of the oldest universities in the world

Panasonic has supplied the TV broadcaster RTS with a professional system of studio cameras which consists of 30 sets of AK-HC5000GSJ cameras, with Camera Control Unit AKUCU500ESJ, Remote Control Panel AK-HRP1000GJ and two models of viewfinders AK-HVF70GJ and AG-CVF15G.