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Wednesday, July 5, 2023SVG Rewind: Domingo Germán's Perfect Game Another Banner Moment for YES NetworkOn June 28 in Oakland, Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees threw the 24th perfect game in Major League Baseball history. How did the Yankees regional broadcast partner, the YES Network, rise to the occasion of producing this historic game?
In this episode of SVG Rewind, take a look back at YES Network's production of the fourth perfecto thrown by a Yankee with Director Dan Barr and Producer Josh Isaac - who was sitting in the producer's chair for just the second Yankees game of his career!
Speaking with SVG's Director of Digital Brandon Costa, Barr and Isaac share the details behind producing a game of this magnitude while on the road; explain how a producer and director help each other out as a historic moment is brewing during a live sports broadcast; debate when the production crew begins to inject the possibility of a perfect game into the broadcast, and much more.Wednesday, March 15, 2023SVG Rewind: Inside Texas A&M's Behind-the-Scenes Baseball BroadcastWhen it comes to producing live college baseball, one of the elite programs in the country resides in College Station, Texas. The award-winning team at Texas A&M Athletics and 12th Man Productions recently offered its fans a peek behind-the-scenes at all that goes into a live baseball show - with a crew largely made up of A&M students.
In this episode of SVG Rewind, we look back at this fun, unique production with 12th Man Productions' Assistant Athletics Director Buddy Kimberlin
and Director of Broadcasts Justin Argo to break down why they wanted to put together a show like this, what needed to be put in place to make it happen, and what advice they would offer another collegiate athletic department looking to do something similar.Thursday, January 19, 2023EA’s Joe Lynch Goes Inside the Apex Legends Global Series Championship ProductionFor the first time, EA welcomed an onsite audience for the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Championship, which took place over the weekend at PNC Arena in Raleigh, NC. In addition the packed house, the audience peaked at more than 632,000 concurrent viewers for the final and the live stream averaged nearly 290,000 viewers across all platforms throughout the event – notching 11.2 million hours watched as DarkZero took home the title.
With a player base of more than 100 million people, Apex Legends is among the most popular battle royale games ever. Now in its second year, the ALGS is also among the most popular esports leagues on the planet, and last weekend’s championship marked the culmination of a rapid evolution in EA’s live-production workflows for the past two years.
Launched during the pandemic, with all tournaments online, the ALGS held its Year 1 Championship in-person in Stockholm but without an onsite audience. The Year 2 Championship last weekend was the first Apex Legends major event to be held with fans in the stands, creating an entirely new scenario for EA and its production partner PGL Esports.
Complementing the in-arena competition, the ALGS Championship delivered an interactive experience for viewers on Twitch, with a mix of cutting-edge broadcast technology (including Multiview), Twitch drops, exclusive content, and more.
SVG sat down with Joe Lynch, group head of content and programming, EA, to look back at how the production went in Raleigh, the workflows and technology used, what his team learned from its first-ever Apex Legends major event in front of a crowd, and how the Year 2 Championship marks a new era of EA’s Apex Legends esports-production efforts.Thursday, January 19, 2023NBC Sports’ Joel Felicio Recaps Production Elements of the 2022 Tour de FranceThe 2022 Tour de France officially came to close over the weekend, and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard took home the yellow jersey as this year’s winner. As the longtime U.S. broadcaster of the global cycling event, NBC Sports was once again at the center of the action for all 21 stages.
In this episode of SVG Rewind, Coordinating Producer Joel Felicio discusses the 2022 efforts, lessons learned during three years of producing the event remotely, and what it takes to keep viewers engaged with next-generation technologies and how the production effort is a truly global one.Thursday, January 19, 2023Warner Bros. Discovery Sports’ Chris Brown on Producing Golf Under the Lights for ‘The Match’Warner Bros. Discovery Sports’ produced the seventh edition of The Match last weekend with a big twist – the latest TNT broadcast took place under the lights at night. In the end Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas came out on top against Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in the 12-hole competition on Dec. 10 from Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, and WBD Sports’ production and operations teams delivered a first-of-its-kind primetime golf broadcast.
NEP’s EN2 (A and B units) and BSI RF5 mobile units were on-site for the production, while NEP’s Bexel and Fletcher also provided support. WBD Sports deployed more than 30 cameras throughout the course (a mix of Sony HDC-2500’s and HDC-4300’s along with a Sony P1 SteadiCam) with a mix of Canon and Fuji lenses. In addition all four golfers were mic’ed up throughout the 12-hole round, providing viewers with the all-access coverage that has become a staple of The Match. Musco Sports Lighting also played a major role in the production to ensure viewers could see all the night-time action.
SVG sat down with Chris Brown, VP, Tech Operations, WBD Sports, to discuss how his team pulled off such a unique production, the key considerations when shooting golf at night, and how The Match production ops have evolved since the premier edition in 2018.Thursday, January 19, 2023Inside the AR-Fueled ‘Nickmas’ NFL Broadcast: Behind the Scenes With CBS Sports and NickelodeonSince launching with the NFL Wild Card Game in 2021, Nickelodeon’s NFL game coverage has evolved from a madcap slime-filled experiment to a multi-Emmy Award-winning must-see annual celebration of the sport.
Although Sunday’s Broncos-Rams Christmas Day blowout didn’t provide much in terms of gridiron drama, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon’s “Nickmas” broadcast provided plenty of AR-fueled visuals aimed at drawing in the next generation of NFL fans.
After the game, Nickelodeon Executive Producer, NFL Slimetime, Shawn Robbins, who served as coordinating producer of the game, and Nickelodeon VP, Animation/Motion Graphics, Kurt Hartman sat down with SVG to discuss the third chapter in the annual tradition and how they were able to take this year’s broadcast to the next level — in terms of both technology and storytelling.Thursday, January 19, 2023A Look Back at NWSL Draft 2023 with SVP/Executive Producer, Broadcast and Media Brian GordonWith the first overall pick, a high school phenom was selected by her hometown squad; a record 12 trades occurred; and a four-hour live REMI production covered it all. NWSL Draft 2023 saw the league partner with CBS Sports to produce four hours of live coverage from the live event in Philadelphia. But what does it take to produce a live draft for television?
On this episode of SVG Rewind, we take a look back at the live production of NWSL Draft 2023 with the league's SVP/Executive Producer, Broadcast and Media Brian Gordon. He reflects on some of the show's key moments, pulls back the curtain on the REMI operational plans, and offers a peak on other projects that his team is working on in advance of the league's return to action in March.