2022 Remote Production Forum

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REMOTE PRODUCTION FORUM PROGRAM

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SPONSORED BY

Kristopher Hritz, Red Bull Media House VNOC Operations Lead | Live Event Streaming

Noah Gusdorff, CMSI, President

Fox Sports executives provide an overview of their operations in Doha for the World Cup and how their operations here in the U.S. will play a role. We’ll dive into IBC operations in Doha, studio operations, and how control rooms and facilities in Los Angeles will help get things done.

MODERATOR:BrandonCosta,SVG,Directorof Digital

BillHerbstman,ProducerandAssociateDirector

PRESENTERS:

RickSeegull,Riedel,VP,SystemConsulting

4:45 – 5:30 p.m. NETWORKING RECEPTION

12:00 – 12:45 p.m. REMOTE TECH: GRAPHICS AND REPLAY

Kevin Callahan, Fox Sports, VP, Field Operations and Engineering

MODERATOR: Oscar Sanchez, CONCACAF, Executive Producer and Director of Broadcast Operations and Media Distribution

David Rosen, Sony, VP, Cloud Applications and Solutions

PANELISTS:

REMI productions continue to usher in endless possibilities for broadcasters, rightsholders, teams, leagues, and production companies to develop more content for less, increase fan engagement, create new monetization opportunities, and reduce the organization’s carbon footprint using high-quality video and advanced production tools. Learn how Red Bull Media House leveraged LiveU encoders to enable full REMI productions of global live action sports events. Plus, hear about LiveU’s new cloud solutions enhance and advance REMI live sports productions.

Colin Moran, LTN, VP of Production Products

Mike Flathers, Signiant, Chief Solutions Officer

1:45 2:30 p.m. REMOTE TECH: FRONT-BENCH PERSPECTIVES

NETWORKING RECEPTION SPONSORED BY

REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST

KeithD’Alesandro,NASCAR,SeniorCoordinatingProducer

MODERATOR: Kristian Hernández, SVG, Senior Editor

SVGremoteREMOTE PRODUCTION FORUM VISIT THE TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASES! 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. STUDIOMATROXCANONLTNVIDEOPANASONICRIEDELSONYNETWORKSOLUTIONSTERADEKTHESTUDIO-B&HTHESWITCHVIZRT

WORKFLOWS

DanMaloney,MatroxVideo,TechnicalMarketingManager

PRESENTED BY

Jon Raidel, Vizrt, Global Lead for Live Production in Cloud

Two of the core technical craft areas that are taking advantage of new workflows are graphics and replay operations. Leaders in graphics and replay technologies will share their thoughts regarding a future where graphics and replay operators can increasingly do their job from afar with the help of IP and cloud-based tools.

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. CASE STUDY: THE NEXT STEP IN REMI PRODUCTION

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. NETWORKING BREAK

PRESENTED BY

Bruce Goldfeder, NFL Media, VP, Broadcast Engineering

Howdoproducersanddirectorsfeelabouthavingtheirproductionteamand eventannouncersworkingfromdifferentlocations?Dotheyfeelworkingremotely impactsthequalityof theirproductioneitherpositivelyornegatively?Arethere newtoolstheyareusingtokeepintouchwithteammemberswhoareworking remotely?Leadingproducersanddirectorsdiscusstheirthoughtsontheevolution of sportsproduction.

Fox Sports won’t be the only U.S. broadcaster with a massive effort around the 2022 World Cup. Telemundo’s team will have operations humming in both Doha and Miami as the Spanish-language U.S. rights holder looks to deliver a wide range of content to soccer fans via over-the-air broadcast and Peacock.

Postproduction workflows have benefited greatly from the move to IP and cloudbased production. It’s easier than ever for postproduction professionals to access content, create content, and then make it available for playout without having to be onsite. What’s next for the world of postproduction and what have been some lessons in how to best approach content creation in the cloud?

David Neal, Fox Sports, Executive Producer of FIFA World Cup on Fox and VP, Production

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

NETWORKING BREAKFAST SPONSORED BY

PANELISTS:

3:15 – 4:00 p.m. REMOTE TECH: CLOUD-BASED POSTPRODUCTION

Duke Duong, Equinix, Head of Media and Entertainment

10:25 – 10:30 a.m.

PRESENTED BY: Colin Moran, LTN, VP of Production Products

FOX SPORTS

Nathan Rausch, SNS, Manager of Workflow Engineering

John Faratzis, The Professional Fighters League, VP, Production & Programming

12:45 – 1:45 p.m. NETWORKING LUNCH SPONSORED BY

WELCOMING REMARKS

MODERATOR: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial

PANELISTS:

LocationAGENDA|Sunset Ballroom

10:30 – 11:15 a.m. WORLD CUP PREVIEW PART ONE:

PRESENTERS:

BobWhyley,TennisChannel,SVP,Production,andExecutiveProducer

Nick Upchurch, LiveU Senior Sales Engineer

4:00 – 4:45 p.m. WORLD CUP PREVIEW PART TWO: TELEMUNDO

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. NETWORKING BREAK

MODERATOR: Kristian Hernández, SVG, Senior Editor

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DAVID NEAL, Fox Sports, EP of FIFA World Cup on Fox and VP, Production

KEITH D’ALESANDRO, NASCAR,SeniorCoordinating Producer

Callahan is tasked with providing coverage of events large and small, both on location and from the studio. He joined Fox Sports Media Group in the summer of 2013 to oversee the technical planning and development/deployment of new technology.One of his key roles is overseeing Fox’sWorld Cup operations and engineering,as well as operations for Fox’s entire soccer portfolio. For the previous eight years,Callahan was the engineer in charge of Game Creek’s Fox trucks.In that time,he served as EIC for the NFL on Fox,including Fox’s coverage of Super Bowl XLII,Super Bowl XLV,and NASCAR on Fox.

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Moran joined LTN in 2019. Before joining LTN, he served as an audio engineer and ultimately rose to vice president of workflow integration and business operations specializing in remote production for sports broadcasting. Moran has served as a freelance remote mobile broadcast engineer, audio engineer, sound designer, and music composer. A distinguished audio engineer, he has worked in production for top broadcasters (CBS, Fox, NBC) and networks (Cox, ESPN, NFL Films).

KEVIN CALLAHAN, Fox Sports, VP, Field Operations and Engineering

Duong has led teams and operations at top firms such as NASA, Ascent Media (Deluxe), Hulu, Disney, HPE, Hitachi, SIMMWAVE, Comcast, and Equinix. With over 20 plus years in implementing strategic and tactical enterprise technology solutions in various industries, he spent 17 years building out and sup porting broadcasters, content creation, and OTT platforms. Duong is cur rently leading and developing state-of-art solutions to help Equinix M&E customers to transform their digital infrastructure to support today’s dig ital needs.

Faratzis has produced multiple Super Bowls, multiple winter and summer Olympics at major venues, multiple College Football Championship Games, and World Championships in most Olympic sports, from figure skating and ski jumping to swimming and diving and gymnastics. Over the course of his four decade career, he has produced live coverage of literally hundreds of fights. Since January 2018, Faratzis has been employed by The Professional Fighter’s League as VP of programming and production.

MIKE FLATHERS, Signiant, Chief Solutions Officer

Goldfeder is in his 10th season with NFL Media, after a sto ried career including VP of engineering at CBS Sports for sev en years, director of engineering at Venue Services Group for two years, engineer in charge/director of field operations at Madison Square Garden Network for 20 years, and audio sweetening en gineer at All Mobile Video for four years. At NFL, Goldfeder oversees the entire technical engineering plant at NFL LA, including technical design, infrastructure, staffing, budgets that supports the full facility including the 5 stages/PCRs/ACRs, Podcast, VO Booth, Newsroom, and all offices.

BRUCE GOLDFEDER, NFL Media, VP, Broadcast Engineering

DAN MALONEY, Matrox Video, Technical Marketing Manager

JOHN FARATZIS, The Professional Fighters League, VP, Production & Programming

Herbstman has enjoyed a four-decade-long career in sports television production that has earned him more than 39 Emmy Award nominations and nine wins. Herbstman has worked for every major network, serving on-staff at CBS Sports from 1984-87, ESPN from 1987-89, and at NBC Sports from 1991-2002. Since 2002, he has been a freelance associate director at those outlets, as well as ABC, Fox, The Golf Channel, and numerous others.

COLIN MORAN, LTN, VP of Production Products

With over 30 years of software engineering experience, Flath ers has a passion for pushing the technology envelope. He has a proven track record of working alongside customers to cre ate solutions to some of their most complex problems with an API-first mindset. A media and entertainment veteran, Flathers has deep technical experience with media and its surrounding workflows. An Emmy Award winning technologist, prior to joining Signiant, he was CTO for IBM’s Aspera business unit and an IBM distinguished engineer.

Maloney has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and the product development of digital video solutions. He is responsible for defining the infrastructure strategy for end user product lines, including webcasting, video transport, and signal converter products. Maloney engages audiences around the world, having spoken at some of the broadcast and media technology industry’s most well-known conferences, including IBC in Amsterdam, BVE in Lon don, and NAB in Las Vegas.

D’Alessandro is the senior coordinating producer for NAS CAR, Live Events and International Production. An Emmy award-winning live events producer, he also serves as lead producer for NASCAR Productions and NBC’s coverage of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championships. With 30 years of experi ence in television production, including 25 years in remote production, D’Alessandro has supported some of the biggest events for ESPN, ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, and other streaming platforms.

One of the most prolific and accomplished sports producers of his generation, with four decades of production experience and winner of 36 Emmy awards and a prestigious Peabody award, Neal serves as executive producer of FIFA World Cup on Fox and vice president, production for Fox Sports. Neal joined Fox Sports in 2012 and is responsible for all aspects of the FIFA properties on Fox – World Cup, Women’s World Cup, Confederations Cup and other high-profile events involving the U.S. National teams.

BILL HERBSTMAN, Producer and Associate Director

DUKE DUONG, Equinix, Head of Media and Entertainment

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Freelance network sports producer and associate director

Discover why sports organizations around the world rely on Signiant to simplify the content explosion.

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The Signiant Platform is perfectly suited to enhance modern live sports productions.

KAIROS provides direct I/O support for native ST 2110, baseband and video streaming sources and outputs for webcasts. It is a powerful platform providing the flexibility to bring in both SDI and IP sources, along with controlling other systems like robotics cameras and graphic systems.

KAIROS delivers unrestricted, customizable layers and virtual M/Es from an enterprise-class server with 24/7 performance while the user can manipulate these layers with the simple use of macros on the control panel. It can process mixed input sources with different resolutions, such as HD and UHD, simultaneously, making it easy to create video productions in 16:9, portrait or landscape, as well as any custom aspect ratio with resolution up to 32 M pixels (8K).

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Raidel is Vizrt’s global lead for live production in the cloud. He has 15 years of experience in live television production. Raidel comes from the NFL Network where he was technical operations manager for eight years. His background as a technical director in live sports has traveled him all over the world working for brands such as the NFL, NBA, ESPN, Fox Sports, and other regional networks.

With KAIROS, you can focus on creating an incredible stadium experience whether producing on-premise or remotely.

Whyley oversees all aspects of Tennis Channel’s live, firstrun and tournament-coverage programming. As the pri mary force behind all Tennis Channel match coverage, Whyley is responsible for special-event telecasts during US Open, Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup competition and the men’s and women’s year-end championships. Whyley joined Tennis Channel as director of production in 2003 when the network launched and has managed the production department’s operational needs since then.

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BOB WHYLEY, Tennis Channel, SVP, Production, and Executive Producer

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DAVID ROSEN, Sony, VP, Cloud Applications and Solutions

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Rosen has global responsibility for leading Sony’s Ci Media Cloud SaaS business. As one of the original founders, he has grown the business from inception into the largest and most profitable SaaS company in Sony’s history. He is a valued tech nology thought leader within Media & Entertainment and has been a significant contributing force in bringing the reality of cloud based pro duction and broadcast workflows to many of the largest media organiza tions in the world. Prior to launching Ci, Rosen helped create the Digital Media Group within Sony Pictures where he was responsible for deliver ing solutions to enable the studio to transition from tape-based to filebased workflows.

OSCAR SANCHEZ, CONCACAF, Executive Producer and Director of Broadcast Operations and Media Distribution

VISIT THE TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASES! 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CANON • LTN • MATROX VIDEO • PANASONIC • RIEDEL • SONY • STUDIO NETWORK SOLUTIONS • TERADEK • THE STUDIO - B&H • THE SWITCH • VIZRT

Sanchez is an Emmy Award-winning director of broadcast operations, executive producer, and writer. His previous expe rience includes successful roles at the FIFA World Cup in 2018, London Olympic games in 2012, Copa America Cente nario 2016, and more than 6,000 football games produced in the last sev en years in 41 countries.

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JON RAIDEL, Vizrt, Global Lead for Live Production in Cloud

REMOTE PRODUCTION FORUM

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