How Sky Sports Scaled Live Host Broadcast Coverage of the Premier League
SVG Europe's The Football Summit 2026
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25m
Sky Sports’ leap from 128 to over 215 live Premier League matches for the 2025/26 season demanded a radical rethink of production infrastructure. In this session, the Sky Sports team reveal how an accelerated IP strategy enabled large-scale, simultaneous remote productions across multiple sites. Hear how engineering, operations, and production teams collaborated to overcome control system challenges, bandwidth shifts, and workflow transformations to deliver UHD HDR coverage at unprecedented scale.
Jennie Blackmore, Sky Sports, Head of Production
Kevin McCue, Sky Sports, Director of Studios and Technology
Chair: Will Strauss, SVG Europe, Editor
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