NEW YORK – CBS Sports has had to rely on new production strategies to offer PGA Tour golf tournament enthusiasts the pandemic. A new strategy is the use of The Switch’s home/REMI production generation for live streams.
Supported through The Switch through its Burbank, California-based venues and low latency location connectivity, CBS Sports Productions has been able to produce a number of home/REMI television broadcasts in recent weeks broadcast on Golf Channel, adding the policy of the recent PGA Championship.
For these transmissions, 24 cameras and a multitude of audio resources were transported from each golf course to the Burbank halls. These resources were to be available to the CBS team in Stamford, Connecticut, to produce and direct transmissions, replenishments, and write across multiple viewers. Switch’s Burbank site has also been to blame for streaming features such as Top Tracer, Hawk-Eye and Video Shading.
This configuration connects groups across the United States, including the tournament where CBS presents The Jim Nantz broadcasts, as well as Orlando, Florida, from where other CBS golf analysts call the tournament. It also connects other places needed to produce CBS Sports, adding New Zealand.
Of course, the need for remote production has arisen due to the COVID-19 pandemic to help ensure the protection of production equipment. The Switch maintains this “protection first” practice at its Burbank facility, with technical and production groups managing remote transmissions in Burbank, reducing the number of workers needed in the field for the tournament.
In addition, “containment zones” have been erected in the control, audio, reading, graphics and media rooms that are only accessible by designated persons. The switch has also redesigned its HVAC formula to bring only air to containment domains; Separate construction entries have been created; Deep cleaning and hygiene protocols have been implemented; and containment domain personnel were hijacked and administered COVID detection protocols on a daily basis.
“Certainly, none of us expected the COVID epidemic to have an effect on live sports, however, engineering, operations and collective production groups have performed a remarkable task in bringing the quality of the broadcast, live on the PGA Tour golf course, back to an enthusiastic audience in this new environment,” Eric Cooney said , president and CEO of The Switch. “While many COVID-related complexities will decrease as the pandemic is monitored, our industry has particularly accelerated its point of convenience and the adoption of remote production solutions. We look forward to overcoming the barriers of creativity with our transmission partners at the right time. evolution of live sports production. »
For more information, www.theswitch.tv.
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