79 - Young Women In Sports TV Operations: An SVG Europe Women Panel
Release Date: 02/26/2020
146 - Content Leadership in Pro Sports With The Gargano Leadership Group
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Working on the content side for a professional sports team can be a thrill. It can also be a grind. That’s where strong leadership becomes crucial to the health and productivity of an operation. In this special episode, , produced in partnership with The Gargano Leadership Group, go in-depth on the philosophies and strategies of some of the industry’s top leaders. The conversation centers on the importance of continuous learning as a leader, connecting with the people you lead, empowering your team, and the overall development of people and culture within the content department...
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145 - NASCAR Clash at The Coliseum 2024: A Look Back
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With the Daytona 500 set to explode onto screens this weekend, NASCAR - and its broadcast partner FOX Sports - are still buzzing from a wildly unique weekend earlier this month. As the weather forecast in Southern California continued to look bleaker by the hour leading into NASCAR's Clash at The Coliseum, the auto racing giant made the unprecedented decision to move the preseason race a full day earlier. That created a scenario almost unheard of in live sports production. On this episode of The SVG Podcast, you'll learn how FOX Sports and NASCAR worked together to bring viewers one of the...
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144 - The Rise in Women's Sports Production: An Industry Roundtable
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The ratings for women’s sports continue to climb to record levels and that, in turn, drives the need for better and deeper productions. In celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, this episode of The SVG Podcast showcases leaders in women’s sports production. Their discussion centers around how their productions are evolving, why their programming is connecting with viewers, and how the data is now backing up that women’s sports on television is good business. The panel includes: Patricia Lowry, GameTime Productions, President Sara Gaiero, ESPN, VP, Production Emily...
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143 - Alternate Broadcasts: The Ins and Outs
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When it comes to hot trends in sports production these days, the rise of alternate broadcasts is one of the preeminent ways to engage viewers uniquely. From betting-focused shows to alternate announcers, and even fully reanimated recreations of the action on the field, we dive into this topic to discuss goals, target audiences, and reasons for doing them with : Danielle Cranin, NBC Sports, Senior Director, Content Integration & Partnerships Drew Gallagher, ESPN, Coordinating Producer Jon Klein, HANG Media, Co-Founder and CEO Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN Creative Studio, Edit +...
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142 - Eli Velazquez, EVP, Sports, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises
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It’s well-known that the Hispanic population is growing across the U.S., and, in media and entertainment, the younger, multi-language shift is a trend that is changing the face of sports. On this episode of The SVG Podcast, we are joined by Eli Velazquez, EVP, Sports for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises to discuss how his company is uniquely positioned to serve the rising numbers of what he identified as “two-hundred-percenters”: bilingual speakers born in the U.S. but with deep ties to their family’s native country. During a 20-year career at Telemundo, Velazquez has played a key...
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141 - The State of the Remote Production Business: An Industry Roundtable
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Change is constant in the world of remote production. Never has that fact been more evident as the industry steams into 2024. There are more ways than ever to produce an event, thanks to cloud services, fiber connectivity, and IP, but there is still plenty of demand for trucks to be onsite. What is the current state of the business of the remote-production industry? In this episode of The SVG Podcast, top executives from the remote-production community tackle the key topics facing the business. The discussion includes: - Mary Ellen Carlyle, Dome Productions, SVP/GM - Robert Carzoli, Program...
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140 - The State of Live Sports Production: An Industry Roundtable
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2023 was loaded with high-end live sports productions from the major networks. What major technology innovations are changing this game? In this episode of The SVG Podcast, leaders from FOX Sports, ESPN, CBS Sports, WBD Sports, and MLB Network reflect on some of their favorite moments from the past year. Additionally, they offer their takes on the latest trends that are driving their productions, the challenges in continuing to do more as shows get larger, and what new technologies are really making a difference. The discussion includes: - Chris Brown, WBD Sports, VP, Tech Operations - Jason...
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139 - Major Esports Championships: An Industry Roundtable
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From The International to League of Legends Worlds to CS:GO Major Championships and beyond, esports boasts some of the largest annual live-event productions of any kind. On today's episode of The SVG Podcast, we take a look at how the biggest of the tentpole esports events throughout the year are produced. What live-production workflows are being used today for elite esports events and what strategies are being implemented to serve both the tens of thousands of fans onsite and the millions more watching across the globe. The discussion includes: - Sebastian Honciuc, PGL ESPORTS, Broadcast...
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138 - 2024 NHL Winter Classic with WBD Sports' Lee Estroff
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The New Year always opens with one of our favorite productions of the year: the NHL Winter Classic. This year, the event visited the Pacific Northwest and T-Mobile Park in Seattle as the league’s two newest franchises – the Vegas Golden Knights and the Seattle Kraken - met up outdoors. This is now the third year that the NHL on TNT and the team from Warner Bros. Discovery Sports have handled the production and, as usual, it was a feast for the eyes. On this episode of The SVG Podcast, we reflect on the broadcast with Lee Estroff, Director of Technical Operations at WBD Sports to get his...
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137 - Inside the "Nickmas Game" with Nickelodeon's VP, Animation/Motion Graphics Kurt Hartman and CBS Sports Producer Shawn Robbins
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Slimetime returned to the Gridiron as CBS Sports and Nickelodeon teamed up to bring the multi-Emmy Award-winning "Nickmas" alternate presentation to a Christmas Day game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Nickmas Game has become one of the marquee alternate broadcasts. This year's show featured Christmas-themed augmented reality (AR) graphics, a guest appearance by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the announce booth, Santa Claus running routes as a receiver, a giant Yetti tossing snowballs all over the stadium, a candy cane telestrator, and – of course – Slime...
info_outlineA persistent trend in the sports video operations business today is the challenge of finding and training the next generation of broadcast IT technologists, particularly engineers. This is especially true of finding women in those roles.
The same can be said of the broadcast industry in Europe. That was the focus of a panel discussion at the latest Networking Event hosted by SVG Europe Women. The discussion, which featured three engineers working in the field and three educators, addressed the measures that are being taken to guide more young women into STEM roles, the disparity between that desire and the educational prerequisites that deter or prevent women from going in that direction, and the value of learning on the job.
The educators:
Polly Hickling, the course leader of the Media Technology Program at Solent University Southampton
Susan Pratt, director of teaching and learning for the department of music and media, film and video production technology at the University of Surrey
Dr. Ajaz Ali, course director of Digital Television Technology and Degree Apprenticeships at Ravensbourne
The engineers:
Carys Hughes, design engineer, emerging technologies for Sky
Sandy Isnard, solutions architect for Telstra Broadcast Services
Ro-sheen McKenry, head of production technology at Timeline TV
This conversation was recorded on January 30 at the latest SVG Europe Women networking event held in partnership BT Sport and Timeline Television at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Your moderator is BT Sport announcer Sarah Elgan.
This episode of The SVG Podcast is supported by Eurovision Services. Great events don’t happen by accident! Eurovision Services helps broadcasters and sports federations to produce, distribute and personalize their events. With two permanent bureaus in the U.S. and a worldwide satellite and fiber network, Eurovision Services transmit thousands of hours of global content for major U.S. sports leagues and deliver major European sports to broadcast rightsholders in the U.S. every day, letting their clients focus on what really matters – creating amazing experiences. For more visit the company online at Eurovision.net.
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