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Caroline + Celine's Dad • Director of Digital, @SportsVideo Group • Tweets on live sports video production • @HofstraU Alum • Past: @MLB , @AsburyParkPress
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New schools. New studio set. Remodeled at-home control rooms. New Olympic sports graphics package. New hires (behind and in front of the camera).
The 18th year of the
@BigTenNetwork
may be its most significant one since its first.
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CBS Sports will pay all technicians and utilities (including freelancers) who were scheduled to work March Madness.
That includes the NCAA Tournament, Final Four, and D-II and D-III National Championship.
An A+, stand-up job by CBS Sports.
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Friendly reminder that this clip went viral a week ago, and everyone said “that cameraman deserves a raise,” and it was actually shot by a WORKING MOM.
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Literally like walking into a time machine. Most of this preserved as it was when first opened in 1910. Insanely cool.
#MLBatRickwood
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Lots of love for the end zone camera angle in DC. And it’s justified. The shots are gorgeous.
According to FOX, it’s actually NOT a traditional “broadcast” camera. Instead, it’s a Sony mirrorless on a handheld gimbal.
You can see the op in this clip.
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The camera operator framing this up in real time, the director taking it. The people who work on live sports production are incredibly talented.
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The oldest stadium in the country doesn’t have camera wells. Not surprising!
So six of the
@MLBONFOX
primary game cameras are built upon platforms on the ROOF of Rickwood Field. That’s also where the broadcast booth is!
#MLBatRickwood
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While we wait for the start of the second half...
Who wants a Camera Map?!?!
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Saturday's
@NWSL
Championship marks the first time the league will appear on a national broadcast network in primetime.
Firsts on the show:
- a four-point cabled aerial camera
- a Steadicam op will be allowed on field pregame and during key stoppages in play (goal celebrations)
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Absolutely love this shot from behind-the-scenes of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
That's Toré Livia operating the Steadicam. He's a killer live camera operator that's been nominated for 31 Emmys and won SEVEN, working on productions like live musicals, award shows. 👏👏
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#NationalChampionship
on
@espn
By The Numbers!
- 89 game cameras
- 15 SSMOs + 13 RFs
- 5 aerials (blimp, drone, two SkyCams, SupraCam)
- 9 trucks
- 168 replay channels
- 75 transmission paths (55 out, 20 in)
- 394 discreet audio channels leaving site
- 18+ miles of fiber added
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The
@AtlantaFalcons
are the latest NFL team to build a souped-up content production facility at team HQ.
Ticketmaster Studios is now open in Flowery Branch, GA.
Here's a deeper dive on the team's goals for the space + the facility's production specs:
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The new
@MLBONFOX
scorebug debuts this afternoon at CWS-HOU in the ALDS (4 p.m. ET, FS1).
It remains in the bottom right of the screen and replaces the previous design that first debuted in the 2017
#Postseason
.
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Since we lament the tragic fall of the Super Bowl logo every year, it's worth celebrating the consistent excellence and originality of the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four logo.
h/t:
@sportslogosnet
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I've worked from home for the past two years. Some advice:
- do everything in your power to avoid blending your personal with your professional life
- wake up at your regular time, shower, and dress
- dedicate a spot in your home as your work space that's not the couch/your bed
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Not much in live sports TV makes me happier than when a good Main Game Camera Op pulls back and gets in the crowd on a big play at home. 😍
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Your production by-the-numbers for TV geeks for tonight's
#CFBPlayoff
#NationalChampionship
.
🎥96 game cameras
⏪ 170 channels of replay (138 EVS, 32
📡 74 transmission paths (54 out, 20 in)
🔌 18 miles on fiber installed
🚛 12 mobile units
(📸:
@espn
)
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For those interested in the nitty gritty of
@KirkHerbstreit
's announce-from-home set up, here's a few of the details from
@espn
Remote Ops Specialist Brian Ristine:
/THREAD
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For its onsite studio, FOX Sports wanted to be over the LF fence amidst the cornfield. MLB wanted a clean outfield.
To compromise, Fox developed a drape to wrap around the set during the game that makes it look like a nondescript barn.
#MLBatFieldofDreams
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The original wall at Rickwood Field is waaay behind the one they built for tonight’s
#MLBatRickwood
Concrete. Rusty barbed wire along the top. 478 to dead center. 400+ down the lines? 🤯
@SVG_Brandon
I was in Birmingham last year and spent a good hour just walking about Rickwood. The original concrete outfield wall had ridiculous dimensions. So much history.
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~ If you only knew, kid, how long we waited for you and how badly you were wanted. ~
Taking a break from this site for a little bit to spend time with the family after an eventful Thanksgiving Day.
In the meantime, say hello to Caroline Costa!
Be back soon.
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Some of the angles at
#WCWS
are just 🤌.
- two-point cable system (from top of press box down the LF line
- rail camera runs 80 feet along LF + CF wall
- live drone
- cams on the home plate umpire's mask
All feels so fresh and engaging. Kudos to
@megaronowitz
and her A+ team.
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There's 124 cameras in this stadium working this
#CFPNationalChampionship
Game right now for
@espn
. Yea, you read that right. There's nine super slo-mos, 13 RFs, and FIVE
@SonyProUSA
4800s shooting in 4K.
#sportstech
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Details on the Black and White Inning coming from us soon.
For those BTS folks who are wondering, this is all downstream. All the monitors in the truck still in color. Game archive still being captured in 1080p HDR.
But yea, this rocks.
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When the book on the COVID Era of live sports TV is written, put respect on the name of the
@NWSL
.
The first professional team sports league in America to build, execute, broadcast, and complete a full competition.
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TV broadcasts of Negro League games were few and mostly regional.
But for tonight's
#MLBatRickwood
,
@FOXSports
A1 Joe Carpenter studied old game broadcasts and the Ken Burns Baseball documentary to help recreate a special feel to the audio.
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Some early details on
@FoxSports
' Field of Dreams broadcast :
- 4K HDR (1080p HDR upconvert)
- nearly 40 cameras
- multiple aerials (drones, fixed wing, FlyCam)
- four Super Slo Mos
- two “Megalodons”
- 50 mics
I'll be on site for this (!!). More later in the week!
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New Pylon Cam isn't only coming for your job, it's coming FOR YOUR SOUL!
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.
@ROOTSPORTS_NW
has installed a FlyCam at T-Mobile Park for Mariners game coverage and gosh is it pretty.
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Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+ (which is produced by MLB Network) feels like watching the MLB App on an iPad.
Simple and clean gfx. Very on-brand for Apple; down to the fonts.
Combined w/ 1080p and the shallow DoF camera around the dugouts, the overall show is crisp.
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ICYMI: Her name is Trina Cassese. She's a veteran camera op in the Tampa/St. Pete area, and a fellow camera op on the crew said "she's the best in the biz on that camera."
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The lightning that must shoot through you as a director when you set up an at-bat this beautifully and than…on the first pitch?!
@a1director
, you’re a maestro.
When I babble about live sports production being an art form, this is it.
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Fans (and the sports video industry) fell for the video work done by
@LSUCreative
this season. Go inside the people, the gear, and the intense planning that went into the video strategy of
@LSUfootball
at the CFP
#NationalChampionship
.
🐯:
#smsports
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The job by the handheld camera operators. The audio. The directing. Live sports TV, man.
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There's two kinds of people in this world: those who are stressed/anxious as all hell watching this clip and those that this environment is literally what makes you feel most alive.
Life can come at you fast sometimes in the control room 😎
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In a cool nod to baseball television's past,
@FOXSports
broadcast the top of the 5th inning of the MLB at Rickwood Field game in black & white and at a 4:3 aspect ratio.
It was a tribute to how baseball looked on TV at the time of Willie Mays’ The Catch in the 1954 World Series.
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This is a textbook example of something that will likely never make air, but if the game dictates it? Look out.
For tonight's
#NationalChampionship
,
@ESPN
has 4 POV cameras rigged up into the rafters of the stadium to shoot directly down at the top of each goal line pylon.
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All the SkyCam operators in the country are clearly on a group text just dunking on each other.
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The camera plan at
#EURO2024
expanded at the QF round. So here's what Sunday's Spain-England Final will look like.
47 cameras. 33 on game. The rest focus on beauties, aerials, fans, player tunnels.
Match directed by Laurent Lachand ('22 WC Final, UCL Final).
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Rogers Center previously had MLB’s oldest videoboard. Now, the
@BlueJays
have a tremendous 8,076 sq. ft. display.
It’s 1080p and is the league’s latest HDR board.
The Jays debuted it in in a big way this weekend:
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No one's against "the grind." We're against exploitation.
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- - - Some personal news - - -
While waking her up from a nap, my newborn daughter smiled at me. And that’s it. I’ll never be the same person again.
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Yep, CBS is in on the shallow depth of field look, too.
Theirs is not a mirrorless, however. Their operator uses a Sony VENICE.
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Fred Aldous was one of the very first hires made by
@FoxSports
when they first landed NFL rights in 1994.
Today, nearly three decades later, the legendary A1 (audio engineer)is working his final NFL game.
/thread
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Today marks 10 years for me at SVG.
Appreciative of a job that’s offered me the opportunity to travel the world and taught me the value of shutting up and listening.
Forever grateful to
@kenkersch
for taking a chance on me when he did.
Here’s to another decade of learning.
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Signing off from
#MLBatRickwood
Field.
All praise to the crew
@FoxSports
on an A+ effort here in Birmingham. It felt special.
Special hat tip to the production team of:
- producer Pete Macheska
- director Matt Gangl
- executive producer Brad Zager
- SVP, Production, Judy Body
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Please let me know if there are others but...want to toss 💐 to
@HokieVision
.
They've produced Softball Regionals, Softball Super Regionals, Baseball Regionals, and, now, Baseball Super Regionals for ESPN over the past 4 weeks.
An incredible effort by
@EFrey82
and his squad.
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.
@FOXSportsPR
’s promo swag game is usually pretty elite but this is on a whole ‘nother level. 😳🤯
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When we talk about technology enhancements as storytelling tools, this is Exhibit A.
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The new Sony Alpha 1 will be a part of CBS Sports' camera arsenal tonight at
#SuperBowl
. It'll be attached to a MōVI rig and joined on the sidelines by TWO Sony Venice rigs.
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Even the chain gang has cameras!
@3GTV1
cameras embedded IN the yardmarkers are making their ESPN tomorrow at the
#CFPNationalChampionship
Game.
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Incredible. The man who hung in there, took it on the face, and got the shot is none other than Don Cornelli, who will be inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame NEXT MONTH. What a stud.
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At
#CFPChampionship
,
@espn
will debut its newest PylonCam.
At the front corners of each end zone, these pylons will provide high-frame-rate images w/ super-slow-motion capabilities.
There will also be PylonCams in the back corners, along the backline, and at the line-to-gain.
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If you can produce live sports you can produce anything: Exhibit A
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Bob Fishman is calling the last of 39 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championships tonight.
He offered some thoughts on the art of calling a live sporting event for television:
⬇️ (1/5)
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Properly giving out 💐 here:
The camera op courtside who got this shot is Gary Haselnus. The front bench on this game was producer Tom Heitz and director Jonathan Bywaters.
s/o
@Tony_Morreale
,
@gmanolatos
from
@TNTSportsUS
for the credits
The camera operator framing this up in real time, the director taking it. The people who work on live sports production are incredibly talented.
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When it was announced that Willie Mays had passed on Tuesday,
@MLBNetwork
was on the air.
Broadcasting a game. In the country’s oldest ballpark. Where Mays debuted as a 17-year-old.
Here’s what happened when a game became a news event:
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.
@SoFiStadium
tested out it’s double-sided Oculus videoboard this week. And holy hell! 😎
#SVGVenue
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As a Yankees fan, I hope we burn our bullpen to the ground.
As a baseball fan, I don’t know how that could have gone much better.
Congrats to
@FOXSports
and
@MLB
and thanks to FOX for having us.
Good night from Dyersville. Hope you had fun. 🌽⚾️
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:: Twitter OOO ::
We welcomed our second daughter, Celine Jane Costa, into the world on Monday night.
We now have kids (with an s), so I’ll be out on paternity leave wrapping my head around THAT.
Follow
@sportsvideo
for the stuff you usually like getting here!
Be back soon!
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I’ll be real for a second: a year ago it was a possibility that this picture could never happen.
Now I’m lucky enough to be a Dad on Christmas. Giving this girl the first of many Merry Christmases.
Hope yours is Happy and Healthy, as well.
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Every live match of the
#WorldCup
is a 37-camera production of HBS and FIFA. Here's a map of where all of those cameras are located and the types of cameras they are.
#sportstech
#sportstv
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Nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how "busy you were"
- how many hours you worked
People will remember:
- when FOX snuck an 8K camera onto the field in Washington and it looked like a video game
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When you think of ALL of the moving pieces of tracking data that’s needed to animate this IN REAL-TIME…
absolutely incredible.
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Prep is underway for
@espn
's “largest men’s college basketball telecast ever.”
For Coach K's final home game, ESPN will produce a native 4K show w/ 33 cameras.
🪂 two-point cabled camera above the Cameron Crazies
🤖 nine Fletcher robos
🤳 shallow DoF rig
🛸 live drone
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Visited the new NFL facility in LA [more on that later] and despite all of the mega studios, cool edit suites, VO booths, the stadium next door, THIS little space was where we got the most star struck. IYKYK
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Camera totals at this
#CFBPlayoff
#NationalChampionship
:
🐢 16 super slo-mos
☁️ 2 SkyCams (one 4K)
🎥10 RFs (4 HH + Shallow DOF rig)
🟧 10 PylonCams (endzone corners; line-to-gain)
🪝Virtual jib
🪂 live drone (outside)
🛩️ Goodyear Blimp
🧮 89 total game cams
(📸:
@ESPNImages
)
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.
@NBCSports
is the first network to produce three
@NFL
Playoff games in a single weekend.
That’s more than 500 production/technical crew members and three Sunday Night Football-level production compounds spread across three cities.
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A closer look at these “Doink Cams,” which CBS Sports will use at Super Bowl.
Six small 4K cameras are embedded into the goalposts. They can zoom at high-res and can be available for slow-mo replay.
They’ve, of course, been tested but this will be the first time they see air.
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On this day 20 years ago,
@MLB
became the first U.S. pro sports league to live-stream a regular season game.
Aug. 26, 2002: Rangers at Yankees. The feed streamed at less than 300Kbps.
YouTube wouldn't launch for another 903 days. Netflix wouldn't start streaming until 2007.
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This is a really fantastic job. Imagine working all summer on something, having it picked apart nationally, and having the fortitude to acknowledge and respond to the feedback live on opening day. That's professionalism.
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Heated blankets being used to keep the lenses on the broadcast at Arrowhead operational.
With record low temps in Kansas City for the Dolphins @ Chiefs WC game we deployed heated blankets for the lenses to combat the cold.
@GameCreekVideo
PrimeOne on site.
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For the 52nd season of Monday Night Football,
@espn
is introducing a new on-field camera.
An ARRI Trinity stabilization system is outfitted w/ a Sony FX-9. It replaces the traditional Steadicam position and offers more control on shallow depth-of-field shots.
(📸:
@ESPNImages
)
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Take a look at this incredible live sports production program at Jeffersonville High School in Indiana.
Students get the chance to fill live production positions while producing north of 100 live sporting events per year from a control room and, now, a new sprinter van.
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Yowza! 😳
According to Daktronics, this is the new title holder for the largest outdoor videoboard in the U.S.
It’s a curved display that measures 60 feet high x 370 feet wide and is 22,200 square feet.
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Here's a broader look at this Big Ten Network scorebug base design.
As mentioned, it will be used across all "Olympic sports."
Here are a few examples of what's to come later this academic year.
Clean, simple new scorebug from Big Ten Network on soccer.
Its foundation will be used on all Olympic sports on BTN. It's templatized so on-campus crews at all 18 schools can use it for BTN+ streams.
As for football, BTN will continue to use the FOX package. No change there.
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One day I want to attend a Super Bowl party where I’m not the only person who remotely gives a crap about the new scorebug.
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INSIDE THE TRUCK!
@FOXSports
’ top baseball front bench calling the shots at
#MLBatFieldofDreams
:
Sports Emmy-winning producer-director tandem of Pete Macheska and Matt Gangl. TDing is Paul Harveth.
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There's a new director calling the shots for the first time in the history of the
#MFinalFour
on
@CBSSports
.
Mark Grant, a 40-year veteran of the industry, gets his shot in the chair.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a singular individual whose legacy has shaped the creative sports video field we enjoy today more than Steve Sabol.
How one camera lens turns an ordinary throw into a picture-perfect shot 🎥
#NFLFilmsPresents
: The Optex 33 to 1
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It's a special night for
@espn
with a crew of more than 250 onsite in Cleveland for tonight's
#WFinalFour
.
Rail Cam. Skycam. A live drone. Seven SSMOs. Two cinema cameras. Canon FreeViewpoint. Cosm VR highlights. The list goes on!
Read about it all:
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This isn’t the first time other days of the week have tried to pass for Saturday.
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.
@espn
has some of its best talent at the Alamodome + back in Bristol for tonight’s
@ncaawbb
#wfinalfour
.
Kudos to Kerry Callahan who, tonight, becomes the first woman to sit in the producer’s chair since ESPN began broadcasting this event in 1995.
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This CFP graphics package/score bug is fitting of a championship. Oozes big time class.
Solid stuff from
@ESPNCreativeW
.
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The
@NWSL
set a single-match attendance record on Saturday with
@chicagoredstars
-
@wearebayfc
at Wrigley Field.
@IONNWSL
marked the occasion with a full onsite production and 20+ cameras - including a live drone and two super-slow-mos.
MORE:
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#USOpen
wraps this weekend and one of the production stars has been
@Eurosport
Cube.
The Cube leverages
@UnrealEngine
to virtually insert a player from a court at the Open to Eurosport's studio where they can be interviewed live on air.
(🎥:
@mrmoco1
)
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First event from inside the video control at the brand spanking new
@AllegiantStadm
!
(📸:
@KevinCottam1
)
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The most important thing I learned in '18 is that you have to take care of yourself. Get sleep. Eat well. Exercise. In an industry with wacky hours and lots of travel, you WILL break down physically and mentally if you don't. In 2019, please take care of yourselves.
#smsports
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We got our first look at the in-game drone on
@usfl
last night.
@bevhillsaerials
designed a custom-built drone specifically for
@FOXSports
and
@NBCSports
to use on USFL.
They say it’s as fast as a racing drone but small enough to fit in your two hands.
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