SVG Saturday Fax: The Week In Sports Video Production
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Happy New Year! We're back to welcome 2025 in style with a comprehensive look at PGA TOUR's new media headquarters, the drama of live darts, and the evolving financial realities of our business.
All that and much more from the world of live sports production and operations in the first 2025 edition of your SVG Saturday Fax.
PGA TOUR Studios Opens Transformative New Media Ops HQ
The PGA TOUR’s 2025 season got underway this week with The Sentry tournament in Maui but the big news for sports production pros is happening in Florida. The newly opened PGA TOUR Studios in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL is supporting its first live events.
The 165,000-sq.-ft building will transform not only PGA TOUR operations but how content is produced and distributed for fans worldwide. The building boasts seven studios (each with 270-degree LED displays), eight production control rooms, eight audio control rooms, six editing rooms, two voiceover rooms, and plenty of space to grow.
The facility gathers under one roof all PGA TOUR media operations: live production of PGA TOUR Champions; Korn Ferry Tour; more than 5,000 hours of PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+; the TOUR’s expansive roster of more than 50 original, social, and digital platforms; and an archive of more than 223,000 hours of golf content.
“Virtually every content creator for the PGA TOUR is in this facility,” says Michael Raimondo , VP, Broadcast Technology, PGA TOUR. “For example, our Creative Studio group, which was not located at our previous facility in St. Augustine, creates our PGA TOUR LIVE graphics packages and other things. They are now in the same facility, which is great because they have been an integral part of building and designing the studios here. They can interact with the studio team in a way they couldn’t in the past, making sure we have different graphic looks that can go anywhere we want in the studios.”
You can also watch a video interview with Raimondo where he gives a brief primer on why this space is such a massive step for golf.
Sky Sports Lets Loose at PDC World Darts Championship
The 2025 Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Darts Championship wrapped in dramatic fashion on Friday at Alexandra Palace in London, and Sky Sports didn't hold back in delivering a top-flight production.
In an attempt to refine its darts production, Sky Sports has used split screens to show two angles at once, added on-screen graphics displaying at-a-glance averages, and brought back FanCam - a handheld camera with shallow depth of field whose operator is permitted to join the players on stage for the last few practice darts and at the end of each match.
“For Sky, the Worlds have always been huge along with football over that festive period, and over the past couple years darts has been on a rise,” says Joseph Clark Smith , Lead Producer of Sky Sports Darts. “We’ve seen our audience figures increasing since 2022 and then this time last year Luke Littler entered the scene and interest just kind of exploded.
The event, which began back on December 13, also saw Sky Sports introduce a backstage area for flash interviews with players before matches and a challenge area for celebs and VIPs to throw some arrows.
Diamond Sports Group Emerges From Bankruptcy as Main Street Sports Group
After a nearly two-year bankruptcy saga, regional-sports giant Diamond Sports Group has officially completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 with a new name: Main Street Sports Group.
The company will continue to be branded FanDuel Sports Network from a fan-facing perspective, through naming-rights agreement with FanDuel for its 16 regional sports networks. Main Street Sports — which holds broadcast-media rights to 13 NBA teams, eight NHL teams, and eight MLB teams — says it will emerge with a significantly deleveraged balance sheet and a healthy capital structure.
“Emerging from this process is the culmination of over 20 months of incredibly hard work to transform our business and to position us to better serve passionate local fans across our markets,” says David Preschlack , CEO, Main Street Sports.
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