As we see live sports returning, with the Covid-19 Pandemic in mind, ESPN is looking to a new workflow to bring live sports back on the air. This workflow includes gear from SimplyLive, too help bring the action to the air in the highest quality.
Medium.com and the FutrSport podcast recently created a great interview with David Shapiro, President of Pixellot, North America. Pixellot is an excellent production system for live multi-camera sports coverage.
It’s no secret that Covid-19 has caused a major disruption in the live sports industry since early 2020. Now, some major sporting events are returning, taking safety concerns into account. This means different workflows, lighter attendance, and a greater need for streaming.
Pixellot and the Israeli Basketball Association (IBBA) announced a strategic partnership to produce and distribute live games and additional content across all Israeli Basketball Association media platforms. Under the deal, both the Professional Second Division and the National Elite Youth League, will utilize Pixellot products and services.
The Tennis Channel was one of the first networks to come back with live sports since the pandemic. August’s Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Top Seed Open in Lexington, KY, represents the first WTA- or ATP event in the United States since the pandemic shut down sports in March. Since then, the Tennis Channel stayed up and running with producing five tournaments in the U.S and carrying hundreds of hours or live footage around the world. With the help of the SimplyLive ViBox, the network was able to produce the WTA Top Seed Open and keep the safety of their team a priority.
Many Educational institutions have benefited greatly from CARES Act Funding. This includes Rocky Mountain College who has greatly improved the streaming process of their sports program, with the addition of Pixellot AI Streaming Gear.
As sports budgets are being decreased, and crowds are not allowed to attend games, colleges and conferences will need to find innovative ways to engage audiences and generate revenue. The “new normal” is a catalyst to implement cost-effective processes and automated production technology is at a stage of maturity that is now ready for mass adoption. Find out how Pixellot and America East Conference are working together to bring back sports and scale production across their conference.
The SimplyLive ViBox is a great solution for multi-camera sports production. It includes instant replay, slow motion and custom graphics- as well as a wide variety of other production features.
Tilburg Trappers are a professional Ice Hockey team based out of Tilburg, The Netherlands who plays across the border in German league Oberliga. VideoPepper, a production company out of Tilburg founded by Guido Hoogsteder in 1997 first started recording The Trappers back in 2013 as a side project to help his local club.
MOSCOW–Fox Sports (the exclusive English-language home of the 2018 FIFA World Cup) and Twitter are collaborating on a live daily online show that is being streamed directly to Twitter using Telestream’s Wirecast live video streaming production software.