While the emergence of IP-based infrastructures has led to new ways of leveraging the traditional Production Control Room (PCR) and all of the hardware devices and software systems within, it continues to hold its important place as the center of an on-premise studio production in most content creation organizations.
Production and media services company Gravity Media has just completed the first phase of technology integration at its new London Production Centre White City, located on the fifth floor of The Westworks building in London. The state-of-the-art facility, officially opened in February of 2022, is made up of production, post-production services, live studios; master control and 24/7 connectivity to a nearby uplink facility in Chiswick, London for fast digital distribution to a variety of content owners, sports federations and OTT platforms.
Virtual production studios are popping up across the globe as the latest solution for safe and cost/time-effective TV and movie production. This method replaces on location shooting and, by utilizing all-encompassing LED walls (often called “volumes”), is fundamentally changing the way motion pictures are produced.
We talk to Systems Integrator Erik Utter to get his insight into the challenges of production facility and system design, and the right time to go SDI, IP, Cloud or hybrid.
Although his company has been doing remote production trials during live events for more than five years, Pierre Maillat, Head of Technical Studies & Architecture at CANAL+ Group, does not like the term. He prefers “distributed production” because he feels it more accurately describes the process for hosting a series of assets and using those assets in any combination you would like to at any given moment in time.
It was ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, that NBCUniversal opened a new international broadcast center in Stamford Connecticut, as the home for NBC Sports. It served as a way to consolidate its growing employee base and the production activities of a number of physical assets the network owned in Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York City, and Philadelphia.
Ned Soseman, our resident expert on the regional US TV market and NextGenTV, shares his own personal perspective and some anonymous insight from those working in regional US TV stations, on what happened in 2022 and what the coming year may bring.
TheBroadcastBridge.com discuss the intricacies of migrating a Production Control Room—and the team that uses it from SDI to IP—with Tom Fuller, Solutions Architect at Bexel, part of the NEP Group.