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From remote production to robotic viewing


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OBS said “massive cloud adoption” supported production of this year’s Olympic Games


In the many years that the IBC Daily has been published, this must surely be the latest that an edition has been issued. The reason for this late December distribution is to allow us to roundup some of the sessions and presentations that have been published on IBC Digital over the past few weeks, but it also provides us with an opportunity to look back on the year. With the pandemic continuing to curtail many of our lives, remote production in its various guises features heavily in most end-of-year discussions, particularly for anyone involved in sport and live production. And one of the common features of any conversation about the impact of Covid and the adoption of remote production is the acceleration in the pace of change; as Inga Ruehl, executive director, Production Services and Operations, Sky Sports, explains on page 18: “Covid fast-tracked [projects] that we had started or were working on… We did


things in six months that we had planned to do in two or three years”. It’s a point echoed by NEP Group chief executive Brian Sullivan, who on page 16 says “the amount of innovation that’s happened over the past 18 months is probably more than the previous 10 years. Some of the innovation that’s happened is going to stick with us for a long time.” And, as our front cover article notes, greater adoption of remote production will in turn accelerate the shift of live workfl ows to the cloud, with more elements and even larger scale productions moving to the cloud. To emphasise the point, OBS CEO Yiannis Exarchos said during his IBC Digital session that OBS thought that “massive cloud adoption” by broadcasters would happen somewhere between the Paris 2024 Olympics and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. “It’s clear that we are there now, because of the pandemic. We


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were there even in Tokyo.” Vendors are of course


responding, as you’ll see in the product news in this issue. To paraphrase one supplier of QC tools: as more media workfl ows move to the cloud, it is imperative to have a strategy that resides where the media is being processed. As we look forward, IBC’s


Technical Papers provide a reliable guide to what’s on the near and more distant horizon and, as you’d expect, use of the cloud, including for production, is well covered in a few sessions. While creating content can be achieved remotely, an isolated experience doesn’t extend so well to viewing, which is why the author of one paper has proposed a TV-watching companion robot for lonely viewers. Turn to page 21 to fi nd out more and for a link to the Cutting Edge Technologies presentation on IBC Digital.


George Bevir, Executive Editor


INSIDE


4 Comment: IBC chairman Tim Richards on IBC’s efforts to accelerate innovation


6 Netfl ix on the power of partnerships and inside Pluto TV’s growth plans


8 How OBS embraced the cloud to deliver the Olympics


10 Discovery’s SVOD launch lessons and Starzplay’s global rollout


11 Johannes Larcher sets out HBO Max’s roll out strategy


12 Workfl ow Tours: Content Supply Chain and Creative Production


34-70 The latest products, services and technology launches


14 Workfl ow Tours: Content Distribution and Live & Remote Production


15 Interview: IBC award-winner and BBC Sport boss Barbara Slater


16 Interview: Embracing innovation with NEP chief executive Brian Sullivan


18 Interview: Sky Sports’ Inga Ruehl on sustainability and the ambition of net-zero


21 Technical Papers: Overviews of sessions and links to the recorded presentations


24 Accelerators: 5G and remote production in live sport


27 Accelerators: 5G and innovation in live workfl ows


30 Accelerators: AI bias detection 33 Accelerators: Sustainability in live production


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