ESPN Navigates Ops Madness for Coast-to-Coast Productions of NCAA Women’s Basketball Tourney Few events personify the diversity of ESPN’s remote-production methods more than the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Each March, ESPN’s ...

Producer Kaitlin Urka + director Jimmy Platt are on-site in South Bend to call one of 16 opening-round sites in @marchmadnesswbb.bsky.social this weekend.

@espn.com will use 3 unique production models: on-site truck, REMIs from Bristol, on-campus control rooms.

www.sportsvideo.org/2025/03/21/e...

CBS Sports Returns to Kansas City (Again) for AFC Championship With Doink Cam and Trolley Cam in Tow Arrowhead in January. At this point, it seems almost a foregone conclusion for NFL fans. However, for CBS Sports, the annual pilgrimage to Kansas City for the A

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: CBS Sports is in Kansas City for the AFC Championship Game.

DoinkCam, a live drone, and a two-point cable aerial camera (which the network calls TrolleyCam) are a part of 80+ cameras in Arrowhead.

CFP National Championship 2025: It’s All Hands on Deck for ESPN’s Massive Production in Atlanta In college sports, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. More than five months of work comes down to a blockbuster matchup between two of the nation’s ma

Take a deeper look at the production tools behind
@espn.com's CFP National Championship Game production.

(Photos courtesy of ESPN Images)

Tonight's CFP National Championship is a massive show for @espn.com.

The 1080p HDR production has 115 cameras:

- 2 SkyCams
- PylonCams (goal line, end zone, line-to-gain)
- on-field shallow DoF rig (Sony FX3 on Ronin)
- 4K robos down the goal lines
- a 4K handheld in the catwalks

PGA TOUR Centers Media Operations in Transformative New Studio The PGA TOUR’s 2025 season gets under way this week with The Sentry tournament Jan. 2-5 in Maui, HI. For the sports-production community, the real action is m

Here's Sports Video Group's tech deep dive on the facility:

It's a new year and a new home for PGA TOUR Studios, which broadcasts its first live event from its new facility in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL today.

165,000-sq.-ft with nine control rooms, LED walls, studio sets, an IP-based infrastructure. The works.

NBC Sports’ EA Sports Madden NFL Cast Set to Merge Videogame and Live Broadcast Worlds For many years, Fred Gaudelli, NBC Sports’ Executive Producer of NFL, has been talking about the potential for NFL broadcasts look more like EA Sports’ Madd

Today’s alternate broadcast: NBC Sports will produce the first
EA MaddenNFL Cast on Peacock.

The production will blend the worlds of live broadcast and video games though graphics.

The Munich Massacre: When Sports Became News On September 5, 1972 the sports broadcasting world was changed forever, as the storied team at ABC Sports found themselves at the center of an unimaginable world tragedy, which unfolded only yards awa...

You can watch the full conversation with Magaro, Mason, former CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus (the son of Jim McKay), and Lesley Visser.

WATCH: svgplay.sportsvideo.org/videos/the-m...

Dive into the film, September 5, and the experience of broadcasting the Munich Massacre live.

Actor John Magaro Studied CBS Sports on NFL Sundays to Prepare For His Role in September 5 YouTube video by Sports Video Group

To prepare for his role as upstart ABC Sports producer Geoffrey Mason in the Golden Globe-nominated film September 5, actor John Magaro spent months visiting the CBS Sports control room in NYC on NFL Sundays.

What he found there wasn't what he expected.

The SVG Summit is LIVE!

Miss out on attending this year's show? Watch the live stream all day long.

WATCH: www.thesvgsummit.com/live-stream/

Behind the Scenes of September 5: How the Acclaimed Film Re-Creates ABC Sports’ Historic Live Coverage of the Munich Massacre September 5, the new historical drama from Paramount Pictures, chronicles the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live n

"September 5" hits limited theaters today.

The feature film takes you inside the ABC Sports control room during coverage of the massacre at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.

Here's Sports Video Group's deep dive into the film’s development and production:

Real-time insights — player tracking, shot probability, shot distance — are powered by Genius Sports' GeniusIQ

“Many fans today have experienced sports through videogames first and are used to watching the game from that perspective,” - Matt Mosteller, VP, Content,
@tntsportsus.bsky.social

TNT Sports’ NBA 2K25 DataCasts Blur Line Between Videogame and Live Broadcast During Emirates NBA Cup For more than a decade, countless sports-production leaders have opined about the need to make live broadcasts look more like videogames to attract a broader au

There's another alternate broadcast tonight.

The NBA 2K25 DataCast (on truTV and Max) features AR graphics used to give the feeling of watching a video game.

Shot Meter, 2K badges, 2K-inspired camera angles.

The Simpsons Funday Football: ESPN Records Unique Twist on Monday Night Football Theme for Animated Alternative Broadcast Monday night’s The Simpsons Funday Football alternative broadcast on ESPN will unite two of the most iconic brands in U.S. television history, not only visual

It might surprise you that "Heavy Action" was not composed for the NFL when it was first made in 1970. Its also not owned by ESPN or Disney today.

More on music rights and the future of blending IP in alt-casts down the road in this deeper look:

For tonight's "The Simpson Funday Football", @espn.bsky.social produced a new theme that unites two of the more iconic pieces of music in TV history.

ESPN partnered with APM Music and members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to record a new take on the MNF theme, "Heavy Action."

Seattle Kraken's Ryan Schaber, Patrick Brown Launch the Kraken Hockey Network This has been the fall of several professional franchises taking their regional live game productions and distribution in-house. Among them is the NHL's Seattle Kraken which, in September, launched th...

We went DEEP on the production plans and the build-out of the Kraken Hockey Network with director Patrick Brown and VP, Broadcast + game producer Ryan Schaber.

You can watch the full interview now on SVG PLAY:

The Seattle Kraken (@seattlekraken.com) brought its live game production and distribution in-house this season, launching the Kraken Hockey Network.

One of the highlights of the project for game director Patrick Brown (@pbrowntv.bsky.social): the opportunity to design a scorebug from scratch.

NWSL Championship 2024: CBS Sports Caps Off First Year of In-House Broadcasts With Saturday’s Final in Kansas City Sometimes in professional sports, the top seeds survive the win-or-go-home model of the postseason and make it to the final game of the schedule. That’s the e

CBS Sports is going all out for the NWSL Championship Game Saturday night. ⚽️

Sixteen camera angles will include:
- five super-slow-mos
- a robo in each net
- two RF handhelds
- a shallow–depth-of-field (CBS calls it "Atlas")
- a live drone

Premier League to establish new in-house media operation The Premier League is to establish a new in-house media operations business, effectively ending the partnership between the Premier League and IMG. In ...

SVG Europe has more details on the announcement:

www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlin...

Big news in the UK as the Premier League will take all international media production in-house beginning in 2026-27.

That includes the production of each season’s 380 matches.

For the past 20 years, IMG has handled that, operating an entity called "Premier League Productions."

SVG College Summit 2024 - SVG PLAY College sports are in a period of extreme change. One critical area that has remained consistent: is the work done day in and day out by talented, hardworking video production teams within athletic de...

If you'd like to see what the SVG College Summit is all about, you can watch all of the Main Stage sessions from this year's show for free over on SVG PLAY:

SAVE THE DATE: SVG College Summit Returns to Atlanta, May 28-29, 2025 Save the Date! The can't-miss meetup of college athletics video and broadcast production professionals is back! The 17th-annual SVG College Summit returns t

SAVE THE DATE!

The 17th-annual #SVGCollege Summit returns to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta Downtown on May 28-29, 2025.

Make your plans today and don’t miss this event that is FREE to attend to anyone who works in the industry.

Disney, ESPN, NBA Set To Dunk the Halls With Animated Alt-Cast of Spurs–Knicks Christmas Day Game Mickey and Minnie Mouse are set to hit the hardcourt. Disney, ESPN, and the NBA are teaming up to present Dunk the Halls, a real-time animated broadcast of the

There's another fully animated alternate broadcast upcoming from @espnplus.bsky.social!

Mickey and Minnie Mouse will star in "Dunk the Halls", a real-time animated recreation of the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks matchup on Christmas Day.

MORE: www.sportsvideo.org/2024/11/20/d...

Hofstra University opened a new centralized production control room to broadcast live sports.

It was an impressive collaboration between Athletics, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, and the school's Information Technology Services department.

MORE: www.sportsvideo.org/2024/11/20/h...

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