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3 Point Productions' Highlights Partnerships With WNBA, NBA, and More in 2024
2024 has been a busy, yet important year in the history of 3 Point Productions. The creative production company has continued a relationship with four WNBA clubs: the Atlanta Dream, Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces, and Chicago Sky; created a stronger bond with a handful of initiatives in the NBA, i...
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The State of TranSPORT: Broadcaster Perspectives
As audiences demand higher-quality, lower-latency viewing experiences, sports broadcasters face both unprecedented challenges and exciting opportunities. The day kicks off with a panel of seasoned broadcasters and industry experts exploring the current state and future of live sports transmission...
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The Cloud and the Future of Remote Production
The ability to have hardware compute exist in the cloud as opposed to being at the venue or even in a remote production hub promises to increase the popularity of remote workflows. Cloud service providers discuss how cloud-based production services will open up new ways to produce sports content....
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Prime Video's Mike Muriano on the Growth of Thursday Night Football
Be it a greater viewer familiarity with streaming, a stronger game schedule, or something else, TNF has seen its ratings spike in 2024. Entering Week 9, TNF is averaging 13.22 million viewers, an increase of +11% over TNF on Prime’s 2023 season average (11.86M), and +38% above the 2022 TNF season...
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ESPN's Kevin Lopes, Zack Mallet Preview the ESPN Edge Innovation Conference
On Thursday, November 14, 2024, the 4th annual ESPN Edge Innovation Conference will take place in New York City and showcase some of the network's latest work in innovation, technology, and storytelling.
ESPN has spent more than 45 years embracing groundbreaking technological innovations to bett...
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World Series 2024: Beverly Hills Aerials Flies Over and In Two Historic Venues
Dodgers Stadium and Yankee Stadium are perfect locales for any Fall Classic, but in 2024, the environments surrounding these locations are being accentuated by a pair of drones in the sky. Beverly Hills Aerials, the cinematic drone company that has become a trusted production partner of FOX Sport...
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Adventures in Live Cloud Production: NHL
The NHL continues to embrace new cloud-based live productions, most recently using the cloud to create a main broadcast as well as an alternate feed. The NHL’s Grant Nodine and AWS’ Andrew Reich take to the stage to discuss the project, the technologies involved, and what it means not only to the...
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LA Dodgers' Jessica Rae on World Series In-Venue Shows in Chavez Ravine
Attending a World Series game is a bucket-list item for many baseball fans, but producing the in-venue experience for your home crowd is an indescribable feeling for production professionals at any club in Major League Baseball. In the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the gameday productions of t...
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Sony Sports CEO Rufus Hack on the Impact of the KinaTrax Acquisition
Sony Corporation made a big sports splash earlier this month when it acquired KinaTrax, Inc. (“KinaTrax”), a research-grade markerless motion capture technology for sports that collects in-game biomechanical performance data on athletes.
KinaTrax joins Hawk-Eye, Beyond Sports, and Pulselive to f...
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Creating New Experiences Within the Walls of Entertainment Venues
Discover how creative technology companies, marketing agencies, and storytellers are dreaming up and activating the engaging experiences for stadium, unique entertainment venues, and location-based experiences. This session will uncover how immersive technologies, interactive content, and digital...
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ESPN's Tommy Mitchell on Joining the Monday Night Football Operations Team
ESPN's Monday Night Football is in the thick of, perhaps, its busiest stretch of the entire season. Fresh off back-to-back weeks of two-game nights, the crew is now headed to Arrowhead as the New Orleans Saints visit the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs to close out NFL Week 5.
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ESPN's Linda Schulz Previews NHL Opening Night Tripleheader From Salt Lake City
After opening in Prague over the weekend, the NHL 2024-25 season begins in North America tonight with an opening night tripleheader on ESPN and ESPN+. ESPN’s NHL studio show, The Point, is emanating live from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City with a GameDay-style atmosphere celebrating the highl...
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NBC Sports California Reflects on the Final A's Game at the Oakland Coliseum
It was a sad day in the city of Oakland - and for baseball fans at large - on Sept. 26, when the Oakland A's played their final game at the Oakland Coliseum, a stadium and city the team have called home for more than half a century.
The team's regional sports network partner, NBC Sports Californ...
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How Alex Morgan's Final NWSL Game Became a Multi-Network Simulcast
When women's soccer legend Alex Morgan announced on Thursday that she would be retiring from the game, the NWSL opted to go the extra mile to make sure her final outing on Sunday would be available to as many fans as possible. After a flurry of logistical maneuvering behind the scenes over the ne...
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Prime Video, TNF, and Next-Level Streaming: A Keynote Conversation
Over the past few years, Prime Video has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in live sports, both in the United States and globally. With the second season of Thursday Night Football under its belt — and with a wealth of other live sports properties to deliver — what innovations are the emergi...
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Meta's Sarah Malkin On How Meta Quest 3 Allows Greater Fan Engagement With VR
Whether it’s watching localized broadcasts of the National Basketball Association through League Pass or international competition during this year’s Summer Olympic Games, Meta is leading the pack with accessible VR experiences for fans across the globe. With the Meta Quest 3 headset, as well as ...
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Adventures in Live Cloud Production: ESPN
Over the past two years, ESPN has pushed the boundaries of live cloud-based production with several real-world deployments and a plethora of behind-the-scenes tests. Now, ESPN is focused on building a robust baseline to operate different cloud-based workflows from. In this fireside chat, ESPN tec...
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The Caitlin Clark Effect: A Peek at the Indiana Fever's Digital Content Strategy
The Caitlin Clark Effect. It's been said many times and has generated positive change throughout the professional and collegiate ranks of women's basketball, but the entity feeling its direct impact is the Indiana Fever.
Matching the NCAA's all-time leading scorer with last year's No. 1 overall ...
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NHL in ASL Alternate Broadcasts Bring Stanley Cup Final to the Deaf Community
This year's Stanley Cup Final was not only a seven-game thriller but also the catalyst for a first-of-its-kind, alternate telecast serving the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, NHL in ASL.
For every game of the Final, the NHL produced live game coverage presented with commentators communicatin...
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The Evolution of Regional Distribution and the Enduring Value of Local Sports
The local sports media business is going through a distributive evolution. This opening session from sports-media veteran and strategic advisor Patrick Crakes offers a look into the current state of the distribution and business landscape along with insights into a future that embraces multiple f...
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The Only Way is Up: A 9:16 Content Production Masterclass
A panel of producers and agencies showcase their work and share best practices when it comes to producing live and on-demand content for mobile: outlining what works, and what doesn’t, and providing the secret to ensuring broadcasters and ‘Generation TikTok’ alike are engaged.
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Texas' Jeff Hanel and the Next Gen of Live College Video: A Keynote Conversation
Major athletics programs nationwide will settle into new conference homes this summer. One of the biggest is the arrival of the Texas Longhorns to the Southeastern Conference (SEC). A massive facility build in Austin, as well as a rebuilding of an in-house ahtletic department arm are prepared to ...
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FloSports Makes History with First In-car Camera in Dirt Racing
Now in its seventh year, FloSports' FloRacing streaming platform continues to grow and is now looking to bring some of the staples of big time racing coverage to its motorsports productions. On May 26 at High Limit Racing's Bob Weikert Memorial at Port Royal Speedway, FloSports deployed an in-car...
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PWHL Finals: Raycom Sports, Sky Candy Studios Deploy Live Drone Over the Ice
In what has quickly become Boston's "hottest ticket in town," the PWHL Walter Cup Finals will return to the sold-out Tsongas Center tonight for a winner-take-all Game 5. With plenty of eyeballs expected on the broadcast across the U.S. and Canada, The PWHL's U.S. production partner Raycom Sports ...