SVG Saturday Fax: The Week In Sports Video Production
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College football Saturdays are back! The US Open rolls on in New York. The Paralympics are lighting up Paris.
It's a huge time in the world of live sports television production and operations. Here's what's going down in the latest edition of your SVG Saturday Fax.
ESPN Debuts SEC on ABC; Turns to the Cloud for Super Slow-Mo
Week 1 of the college football season brings with it a major changing of the guard in one of the more hallowed time slots in American sports television.
Long a television juggernaut, the Southeastern Conference is prepared to level up, both with the additions of 美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校 and the University of Oklahoma and in moving its treasured 3:30pm ET time slot from CBS to ABC with the debut of football’s latest crown jewel television brand, the SEC on ABC.
The SEC on ABC debuts on Saturday with a doubleheader: Miami at Florida (3:30 p.m. ET) and Notre Dame at Texas A&M (7:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes, the SEC on ABC causes a bit of a reshuffling of ESPN’s top college football crews. The lead team, led by producer Bill Bonnell and director Jimmy Platt, will work the top SEC game each week. The B and C crews will likely also be on SEC games for ABC either in primetime or at noon.
Elsewhere, ESPN took its REMI operations to the next level last weekend for the broadcast of the Georgia Tech-Florida State game in Dublin as it was the first time that ESPN — working alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS) , RIEDEL Communications , and other vendors — used the cloud for super slo-mo operations (SSMO). The plan is now to deploy cloud-based SuperMo for the ACC and SEC Prime CFB games on Saturdays this fall.
College Football Back to Dominate Broadcast at CBS, FOX, and NBC
Broadcast network programming schedules will be dominated by football for the remainder of the year as college football gets back in action and the NFL returns next week.
At CBS Sports , they enter Year Two of an exciting partnership with the Big Ten Conference . The network's top crew of longtime director Steve Milton and coordinating producer Craig Silver will shift its focus there and viewers should expect the same great production quality. The network will debut a new scorebug, utilizing the same one that debuted earlier this year at Super Bowl LVIII. CBS's college crew has also added a third mobile unit to the compound. For instance, the A and B units of F&F Productions, LLC ’s GTX 20 and the C unit of GTX 21 will be used this season to account for added replay machines and personnel.
NBC Sports will also look to flex its college football muscle alongside the Big Ten while also staying loyal to its lucrative partnership with the University of Notre Dame . In addition to broadcasting a primetime Big Ten game many weeks with Big Ten Saturday Night, the network will produce a dedicated pregame show, Big Ten College Countdown. In certain weeks, Big Ten Saturday Night games will be exclusive to Peacock.
FOX Sports , meanwhile, returns to its found success in kicking off the day's action for college football fans with the first big game of the afternoon. This new era of conference realignment should only further the network's growth as it expands its ability to combine stellar live game production with entertaining studio programming. Big Noon Kickoff, their marquee studio show, will once again hit the road to visit Big Ten campuses, but on the broadcast front, the network’s Big Noon Kickoff is seizing on the opportunity to lead every action-packed Saturday in the noon ET window.
A New Era Dawns at the Big Ten Network
One of the conferences undergoing one of the most significant transformations in this season of college athletics is the Big Ten Conference . The traditionally Midwest brand is now fully a coast-to-coast juggernaut with the addition of four glamour West Coast programs in UCLA, Southern Cal, Oregon, and Washington.
This growth to 18 member institutions makes the 18th year of the Big Ten Network (BTN), arguably, the most significant one since its first. To greet this exciting moment, BTN has redesigned the studio and updated the four at-home control rooms in its Chicago headquarters, expanded its relationships with its production truck vendors Mobile TV Group and Rush Media Company , made hires behind and in front of the camera, and debuted a new graphics package for Olympic sports.
“It is certainly an important moment for us,” says Mark Hulsey , SVP Production/Executive Producer at Big Ten Network, a veteran of BTN since 2009. “When you look at the overall landscape of college athletics, we feel fortunate to be in this position. We feel like we’ve worked very hard over the past six months to get ready but it’s definitely humbling to be a small part of this as we approach what is a very big year for us.”
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NBC Turns Its Production Might in Paris Toward the Paralympics
The Paralympics kicked off with its Opening Ceremony on Wednesday and NBC Sports is giving the event the big-time treatment.
While the production efforts have scaled down a bit compared to the Olympics there is still much to be done to deliver an estimated 1,500 hours of coverage across all 22 sports on Peacock, which will once again feature the GoldZone and Multiview.
“The goal for the Paralympics movement is to build towards a real launching point in Los Angeles [in 2028] and we’re excited to put it on equal footing to the Olympic effort as we have a breathtaking American team that...makes it more fun,” says Darryl Jefferson , SVP, engineering and technology, NBC Sports and Olympics. “Peacock will take the lion’s share of the programming and then stream it and then GoldZone continues because it was a big hit.”
ESPN, US Open Roll Into Its Middle Weekend In Flushing
The US Open enters its middle weekend and ESPN is continuing to bring wall-to-wall coverage of the final tennis major of the year.
The big news so far coming out of this event - outside of a couple of early upsets - is that ESPN extended its rights agreement with the (USTA) United States Tennis Association, ensuring that the US Open will remain with ESPN through 2037. In the deal, USTA will take over host broadcaster duties from ESPN beginning in 2026.
SVG will be on-site at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center next week to bring you exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage of the operations behind this year's US Open from both ESPN and the USTA. Visit www.sportsvideo.org for continued updates. Until then, we wish you and yours a wonderful Labor Day Weekend.
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