Former UEFA, Orange Executive Nicolas Déal Launches OVERCAST Private-Cloud Production Service
Former UEFA and Orange executive Nicolas Déal has launched OVERCAST, a Swiss‑based private‑cloud platform tailored for live‑sports broadcasting. The service delivers IP‑native, micro‑service production, contribution and distribution capabilities from distributed European data centers, promising ultra‑low deterministic latency. OVERCAST’s data‑to‑data workflow stores raw camera feeds at the nearest edge node, enabling AI‑assisted multi‑task production and real‑time analytics. The company proposes a flat‑rate subscription model to replace traditional OB CAPEX with predictable OPEX.
HBS Leadership to Step Down After Landmark 2026 Global Broadcast Projects
Host Broadcast Services (HBS) announced that CEO Dan Miodownik and COO Luc‑Antoine Charial will step down on 30 September 2026, after overseeing the 2026 FIFA World Cup, US Open and the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship. The duo has driven...
NAB 2026: Backlight to Showcase Iconik and Wildmoka Integration
Backlight will unveil its Iconik‑Wildmoka integration at NAB Show 2026, adding a native publish panel that lets users push media from the Iconik library to social and owned platforms without file transfers. The rollout also includes an AI‑enhanced Clip Editor,...
USC Installs Daktronics LED Displays Across Four Athletics Venues
USC has partnered with Daktronics to install 22 high‑definition LED displays across its LA Memorial Coliseum, Galen Center, Dedeaux Field and Rawlinson Stadium, completing the rollout in 2025. The Coliseum’s new 40‑by‑150‑foot screen boasts over 5 million LEDs, a 238% size...
NAB 2026: Synamedia to Demonstrate AI by Quortex
Synamedia will showcase its AI by Quortex framework at NAB Show 2026, offering on‑demand AI processing for video workflows instead of continuous operation. The system leverages smart‑sampling to trigger AI only when meaningful changes occur, promising up to ten‑fold reductions in...
NAB 2026: AWS to Showcase AI and Cloud Media Technologies
Amazon Web Services will occupy booth W1701 at NAB Show 2026, demonstrating AI‑powered media tools such as AWS Elemental Inference, which creates vertical video from live streams in 6‑10 seconds. The service, already adopted by Fox Sports Digital and NBCUniversal,...
NAB 2026: Manifold Technologies to Join NEP Platform as Deployable Application
Manifold Technologies will make its Manifold CLOUD platform available as a deployable application within NEP Platform, the software orchestration system of NEP Group, with a live demonstration at NAB 2026. NEP Platform automates deployment, scaling and health monitoring of third‑party broadcast software...
“Fab Five” Reunion Drives TNT and CBS’s Experimental Final Four Altcast Built on REMI Workflow
TNT Sports and CBS Sports will air an alternate broadcast of the Michigan‑Arizona Final Four semifinal on truTV and HBO Max, featuring the reunited Michigan "Fab Five" as on‑air commentators. The production uses a remote‑integration (REMI) workflow anchored by NEP’s...
Peacock Debuts Its New Vertical-Video Experience for Live NBA Games on Monday
Peacock is rolling out a Live Vertical Video experience for NBA games, debuting during the Knicks‑Hawks matchup on Monday. The AI‑driven feature automatically tracks court action and delivers a 9×16 live feed within the Courtside Live mobile app. This marks...
NAB 2026: Encompass Digital Media and Techex Launch Cloud-Based Master Control Service for Live Events
Encompass Digital Media and Techex have unveiled Altitude Events, a cloud‑native master control service that combines Encompass’s Altitude Media Cloud platform with Techex’s tx darwin transformation engine and Densitron UI. The solution handles the full live‑event chain—from signal acquisition and dynamic...
NAB 2026: Grass Valley To Demonstrate Framelight X Content Management
Grass Valley will showcase its new Framelight X content‑management platform at NAB Show 2026, promising a unified, cloud‑native workflow that links capture, ingest, editing, and publishing. The solution offers migration paths from legacy systems such as Stratus and SQ, reducing operational friction...
SVG GFX Forum 2026: Sessions Now Available to Watch on SVG PLAY
The SVG GFX Forum 2026 convened in New York City and its sessions are now available for free on the SVG PLAY platform. The event showcased cutting‑edge sports graphics topics such as AR overlays, data‑centric storytelling, cloud‑based workflows, and AI‑enhanced...
NWSL Scales Up Production Ops To Match League’s Exponential Growth
The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has expanded to 16 teams, adding 58 matches for a total of 248 world‑feed productions in 2026. To support the larger schedule, the league’s in‑house broadcast operation, partnered with NEP Connected Solutions, has added...
Sports Studio Forms Advisory Board for Free Live Sports Platform
Sports Studio Inc. announced a five‑member Advisory Board to guide its Free Live Sports platform, an ad‑supported service that streams live sports for free. The board includes former executives from FuboTV, AOL Time Warner, Yahoo, and Fox Sports, bringing deep...
Zac Brown Band and Blake Shelton Deploy Sennheiser Spectera at Las Vegas Residencies
Zac Brown Band and Blake Shelton used Sennheiser’s Spectra wideband bidirectional wireless system during their Las Vegas residencies at Sphere and Caesar’s Palace. The system consolidated all in‑ear monitor mixes into just two RF channels, freeing spectrum and enabling a multi‑antenna network with Cat 5 cabling....
Daktronics to Install New Video Display and Show Control System at Wake Forest’s Allegacy Stadium
Daktronics is installing a new video display suite at Wake Forest’s Allegacy Stadium, featuring a 43‑by‑90‑foot main board, two 43‑by‑15.5‑foot side LED screens, and an upgraded Show Control system with Camino technology. The main display adds roughly 1,300 sq ft of screen area...
Sela Partners with Whisper for Fury Vs. Makhmudov Fight Production on Netflix
Sela has hired Whisper as its full‑service production partner for the heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Arslanbek Makhmudov, live on Netflix on April 11 from Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The co‑main event features Conor Benn versus Regis Prograis, with the under‑card...
NAB 2026: OpenDrives To Demonstrate New Storage and Edge Products
OpenDrives will showcase its Edge hybrid‑cloud accelerator and the Atlas Platform v2.11 at NAB Show 2026, occupying two booths in the West Hall. The Edge solution automates bidirectional 4K/8K media movement between central cloud or Atlas storage and remote production...
NAB 2026: IP Showcase Returns as IPMX Moves to Deployment
At NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas, the Alliance for IP Media Solutions, AMWA and VSF will revive the IP Showcase, centering on the newly certified IPMX standard. AIMS will demonstrate certified IPMX products at booth W1355 and host training...
NAB 2026: Globecast To Showcase Managed Media Services Approach
Globecast will showcase its managed media services at NAB Show 2026, emphasizing a hybrid connectivity model that combines satellite, IP, fiber, and cloud. The company’s Content Exchange platform unifies routing, provides real‑time monitoring, and integrates with third‑party Media Asset Management...
NAB 2026: Solid State Logic To Demonstrate Expanded Virtual System T Platform
Solid State Logic will showcase its expanded virtual System T platform at NAB 2026, featuring the VTE1 virtual DSP engine capable of 256 processing paths and cloud deployment. The company also introduces a smaller 140‑path DSP package, flexible short‑term licensing, and native...
UFL Names Sportable Official Connected Ball and Player Tracking Partner
The United Football League (UFL) has appointed Sportable as its Official Connected Ball and Player Tracking Partner for the 2026 season. Sportable’s sensors will be embedded in every football and wearable devices, delivering real‑time data on ball location, speed, spin...
Grass Valley and NVP Deploy Camera Systems for LALIGA Broadcast Production
Grass Valley, together with NVP and integration partner Video Progetti, has completed a live‑production rollout for LALIGA broadcasts. The system equips 15 outside‑broadcast trucks with 144 Grass Valley cameras, delivering native 4K UHD HDR and HD SDR for more than...
Edith Cowan University Installs Lawo VSM, HOME, and Mc²36 in New Broadcast Facility
Edith Cowan University in Perth has opened a state‑of‑the‑art broadcast facility equipped with Lawo’s HOME management platform, Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) control system, and mc²36 audio console. The installation, delivered with partner PAT, integrator Diversified and consultant Techniq Media, integrates...
Comcast Business Powers 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship Network and Broadcast Infrastructure
Comcast Business installed a massive network for the 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass. The deployment featured roughly 600 miles of fiber, 400+ Wi‑Fi access points and connected 58,000 devices, supporting up to 16,500 concurrent Wi‑Fi users and 40 TB...
ESPN Tops 2026 Sports Emmy Nominations With 63 Nods
ESPN and ABC topped the 47th Sports Emmy nominations with 63 nods, outpacing FOX Sports' 38 and Warner Bros. Discovery's 37. The nominations span 47 categories, covering live events, studio shows, technical achievements and documentaries, reflecting the breadth of sports‑television...
Live and Transmitting: Formula E Brings Every Car Live From the Track with ‘All Cars Live’ Program for 2026
Formula E has launched its “All Cars Live” program for the 2025‑2026 season, enabling live transmission from every car on the grid. Eight of the 22 cars stream four UHD angles each, while the remaining 14 deliver a single HD angle,...
How World Athletics and HBS Are Telling the Story of the World Athletics Indoor Championships
World Athletics’ indoor championships leveraged advanced audio capture, using boom microphones and strategically placed sensors under sand pits and pole‑vault bars to record coach‑athlete exchanges. Host Broadcast Services (HBS) paired this sound design with a 38‑camera setup, including a new...
Augmented Upgrade: AR Graphics Enhanced with AI Bring Formula E’s 2025-2026 Season New Detail as Well as Challenges
On 21 March 2026 Formula E launched its Madrid debut at Circuito de Madrid Jarama‑RACE, showcasing AI‑enhanced augmented‑reality graphics for the first time. The series switched from its legacy Ncam‑Vizrt setup to Vizrt’s Arena engine, allowing on‑site optical tracking and remote operation from the...
New Doc ‘Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN’ Produced by ESPN Historian Mike Soltys Arriving April 6
ESPN announced the premiere of "Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN" on April 6 at 8:30 p.m. ET, a documentary produced by network historian Mike Soltys and directed by Greg DeHart. The film chronicles Bill and Scott Rasmussen’s 14‑month quest to...
MLB Local Media To Keynote Regional Sports Production Summit, June 29-30, Denver
The Sports Video Group’s 2026 Regional Sports Production Summit in Denver will feature a keynote from MLB Local Media, highlighting how Major League Baseball has built a local‑broadcast operation for 14 clubs. Executives Doug Johnson and Kendall Burgess will discuss...
The Creator Economy’s Growing Impact: Building the Modern Production Studio With Second Rodeo Productions’ CEO Scott Brown
Second Rodeo Productions, led by CEO Scott Brown, is pioneering a new production model that focuses on digitally native scripted formats such as micro‑dramas—short, one‑minute chapters monetized per episode. Drawing on collaborations with megastars like MrBeast, The Rock and Kevin...
The Countdown Is On! Prep for Vegas with SVG’s SportsTech@NABShow Blog
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show 2026 will take place April 18‑22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, featuring a packed lineup on the creator economy, AI, streaming and broadcast technology. Among the highlights, Telestream introduced UP, a cloud‑native...
SVG New Sponsor Spotlight: Verimatrix’s Juan Martinez on Safeguarding Live Sports Content
Verimatrix, a security firm with over 400 customers and 200 engineers, is positioning itself as a global leader in anti‑piracy technology for live sports. In a new SVG Sponsor Spotlight, VP of Product Management Juan Martinez explains that the time‑sensitive...
SVG All-Stars: Alex McKeen, Senior Manager, Strategic Production Planning, TNT Sports
Alex McKeen, senior manager of strategic production planning at TNT Sports, orchestrates the technical frameworks that power Bleacher Report and House of Highlights live streams and large‑scale activations. He has championed remote‑production (REMI) workflows, enabling leaner onsite footprints and scalable...
Behind the Mic: NBC Sports Announces MLB Opening Day On Air Lineup, Featuring Orel Hershiser, Al Leiter and More.
NBC Sports unveiled its MLB Opening Day doubleheader analyst lineup for March 26, pairing former players Al Leiter, Neil Walker, Orel Hershiser and Luis Gonzalez with play‑by‑play veterans Matt Vasgersian and Jason Benetti. The games will air on NBC and the streaming service Peacock, with...
MLB, Google Cloud Debut AI-Powered, Real-Time Game Analysis With ‘Scout Insights’ in MLB Gameday
Major League Baseball has introduced Scout Insights, an AI‑driven feature embedded in the MLB Gameday app that delivers real‑time, contextual commentary on pitches and matchups. The tool leverages Google Cloud’s Gemini large‑language models, scanning petabytes of historical Statcast data to...
Bay FC Announces Multi-Year Partnership with Victory+ as the Official Streaming Partner
Bay FC has signed a multi‑year deal with free streaming service Victory+ to become the club’s exclusive local streaming partner through the 2027 NWSL season. Victory+ will broadcast 16 Bay FC matches, including six games restricted to Bay Area viewers,...
Chicago Sports Network, WCIU To Simulcast 10 White Sox Games
Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) and Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU will simulcast ten Chicago White Sox games during the 2026 season, marking the second consecutive year of their partnership. The slate features four matchups against the Chicago Cubs and includes CHSN’s full...
Ratings Roundup: 2026 World Baseball Classic Is Most Watched WBC Telecast EVER with Over 10 Million Viewers
The 2026 World Baseball Classic final between Venezuela and the United States set a new viewership record, attracting 10.78 million viewers on FOX and FOX Deportes. The telecast peaked at 12.15 million during the closing minutes and posted a 128% increase over...
Explained: What the Premier League Really Wants From OTT
The Premier League announced it will launch its own OTT platform, Premier League Plus, in Singapore starting the 2026‑27 season. The service was built into a six‑season bid with StarHub in 2022, providing a low‑pressure test market ahead of the league’s...
NAB 2026: IP Innovation, Software‑Based Media Infrastructure & Dynamic Media Facility Workflows on Display for Lawo
Lawo will unveil a new software‑centric product line at NAB 2026, expanding its HOME platform with containerized micro‑service apps for IP‑based media workflows. The updated HOME suite now includes role‑based access control and a Multiviewer app that can handle up to...
Controlled Chaos: Inside the Mighty Production Engine Behind the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s First Week
CBS Sports and TNT Sports orchestrate a nine‑city live‑production operation for the first week of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, deploying full crews and identical technical blueprints at each venue. Each site runs roughly ten camera operators, robotic cameras, and...
Upgrade to NCAA March Madness Live App Expands Multi-Game Viewing, Enhances Second-Screen Experience
The NCAA March Madness Live app receives its most substantial upgrade yet, adding true multi‑game viewing that lets fans stream two to four games at once across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. New lock‑screen alerts, integrated men’s and women’s bracket...
Net Insight Appoints Larissa Görner-Meeus as Chief Product Officer (CPO)
Net Insight has named Larissa Görner‑Meeus as its new Chief Product Officer, adding her to the executive management team. Görner‑Meeus holds a Dipl‑Ing. in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, and more than 15 years of experience in media and broadcast technology....
Behind The Mic: Netflix, NBC Tap Matt Vasgersian to Call MLB and Tony Dungy Is Out at NBC
Matt Vasgersian will call MLB Opening Night on Netflix and serve as play-by-play voice for NBC's MLB Sunday Leadoff games. Netflix's broadcast team features Albert Pujols, CC Sabathia and multilingual commentators, streaming the game in five languages. NBC also added...
NAB 2026: Boland Communications to Show New OLED Displays and Video Wall Applications
Boland Communications will showcase its latest OLED and QD‑OLED monitors at NAB 2026, highlighted by the new 55‑inch 4K55HDR7SNB super‑narrow bezel display designed for tiled video‑wall installations. The model delivers 12‑bit 4K resolution, 700 nits peak brightness, HDR support, and a range...
Montreux Jazz Festival Names Gravity Media as A/V Production Provider
Montreux Jazz Festival has signed a multi‑year 3+2‑year agreement with Gravity Media to become its new audio‑visual production provider, succeeding Swiss broadcaster RTS. The partnership will see Gravity Media’s Nova 105 outside‑broadcast vehicle delivering IP‑based, UHD S‑Log3 master workflow and...
FloSports and Storied Sports Partner on Women’s and College Sports Content
FloSports announced a partnership with Storied Sports, a studio founded by former espnW and The Players’ Tribune executives, to produce sponsor‑oriented storytelling across its women’s and college sports programming. The collaboration will create original formats for live broadcasts, social platforms,...
NAB 2026: Marshall Electronics Launches First 4K All-IP Weatherproof NDI Camera
Marshall Electronics unveiled its first all‑IP 4K POV camera, the CV574‑WP, at NAB 2026. The unit combines an IP67 weather‑proof rating with NDI|HX support, allowing ultra‑high‑definition video over standard Ethernet. Featuring an 8.46‑megapixel sensor, interchangeable M12 lens mount, and PoE power,...
