Behind The Broadcast: Football On Live Television 

Really appreciate that!

Appreciate it. Thanks!

Thanks!

Appreciate it!

We create most of the graphics in-house via photoshop but any of the animated ones are from UNO Overlay by Singular.live

Thank you!

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Thank you! The way we obtain scoreboard data is difficult and probably our most asked question. The basics are, we use a Sportzcast ScoreLink to connect to the venue scoreboard. That plugs into our network and we’re able to pull the raw XML Data into live score from there.

@@jrmvideo thanks for getting back to me. What kind of sideline mic do you use and what's the range? I normally have a sideline reporter but the wireless audio range has been spotty at best.

Yes, 95% of the time the venue has internet available for us. We are in communication with the schools IT teams several weeks before a broadcast date to ensure speeds, reliability and open ports. The rare case internet is not available, we will use a LiveU pack to transmit signal. This uses cellular bonding to send out the broadcast to any location you desire. They are very pricy so we rent per occasion basis.

Thank you! That is a very good question and it’s a recent issue we’ve encountered with the growing size of each production. Specifically for the football broadcasts, Cory our drone pilot has been with JRM since day one and understands the workflow of all the roles and technology involved with our productions. If we have an issue mid-show, he will step away from his role as drone pilot to go solve said issue. It’s worked out because we can sacrifice a live drone shot as he goes and tends to a problem. So he’s pretty much the engineer as well.

The station provided us with 2 video encoders which would send via RTMP streaming directly to the station. This meant we had to have good reliable internet at every location and we had to have specific ports open on firewalls. There was a lot of IT coordination every week. In the few cases internet was not available, they would provide us with a LiveU pack to transmit over cellular bonding.

@@jrmvideo Now I get it. Thnk you for the quick response and continued success.

We use DJI drone systems. Specifically, the DJI Smart Controller which has an HDMI out with the live video feed. We’ll just take that HDMI and convert it to SDI for our switcher.

Unfortunately, we don’t broadcast soccer. Maybe one day!

That’s a Marshall Cube Cam. They are commonly used throughout productions anywhere you can put a large camera rig. We use them for a beauty shot and announcer snoop cam so we can see what’s happening in the booth.

Thanks for leting me know.

We use all Accsoon products for our wireless needs. I highly recommend them. We’ve had zero issues with them for multiple years now.

We have a total of 4 atem camera converters in the press box. The two you didn't see were at main camera and our PTZ. We also have a 4 channel SDI over LC Fiber converter mounted in our press box breakout which handles the wireless receivers and booth cameras. There's a total of 8 camera feeds coming from the press box.

Yeah they still work with us on our second crew as well as for the college games.

UNO Overlays. Pretty sweet free graphics software. Other graphics we use are designed in Photoshop.

Thank you! Always trying to get the most bang for our buck here haha

@@jrmvideo Old does not mean bad. Great way to get some nice broadcast optics for a reasonable price point. Great work guys.

Very well done! Amazing what you guys do.

Funny you mention the indicator lights because we just designed a system for our stream decks to control red and green lights for TV timeouts. I also feel it depends on the sport. For hockey and basketball, it's easy to have a pre-planned tv timeout that the officials will follow. But for football, sometimes we take a break and sometimes we don't. The method we use is exactly what happens for NFL games. I work on the sidelines during NFL games and the networks have a red hat "Orange hat" that stands on the 30 yard line and will run out when there's a break. I also worry about daylight football games because the LED indicator lights won't be visible up in the press box. But we are experimenting.

It's a custom built software

@@jrmvideocan you tell more about it?

@@robertgrafe8775 Too much to explain, it's custom coded for a Microsoft tablet but I would check out "Video Pencil" for IOS devices. We just discovered this and it would've solved many issues for us. Software just came out a year ago

Reached out to the station engineer. I would try station manager or sports director.

Via two teradek encoder sent out via SRT streaming. One primary and one backup.

@@jrmvideo Thanks, you guys are amazing!!

Do you use teradek bonded solution? Or just fibre at the stadium?