GENRE REPORT
LIVE TV
JASON WESSELY, DIRECTOR OF GOLF, SKY SPORTS
“2023 is a massive year for golf. There’s the women’s Solheim cup and Ryder Cup back-to-back as well as The Masters, US Open, The Open Championship and beyond. Sky rights are very strong. We
“You’ve got to be aware of the thirst for
knowledge,” adds Gough at North One. Fans will actively seek more. “The immediacy is key there as well – to offer up news and highlights very quickly…. You’ve got to think when and where people watch your output.”
ON THE GREEN North One covers the MotoGP races worldwide
with BT Sport. In common with much live event coverage, remote production for the MotoGP has now bedded in, post Covid, making efficiencies and reducing environmental impact. In 2019, pre Covid, on a typical race - taking
Doha as an example – North One sent 30 crew members, typically staying five nights, with a Co2 cost totalling 54 tonnes over a weekend. Now, with remote production the crew has halved, roughly halving emissions. Big events will have a big carbon footprint, but
there’s a growing concern. “Everybody is thinking about and trying to make it more sustainable,” says Pizey at Done+Dusted.
FAR AND WIDE As well as helping to make coverage more
sustainable, remote production has ushered in virtual techniques. WBDS used its UK-based Cube virtual
“THE STREAMERS ARE BEGINNING TO SEE THE BENEFIT OF LIVE
EVENTS ”
NICK BULLEN, SPUN GOLD
produce 50 weeks of the year and have the positive problem of trying to surface all these live rights, using our platforms for viewers to watch different tournaments, or features within the same tournament. We’ve pivoted to almost completely remote produce all our live coverage. We can bring in 48 different feeds at majors and using Simplylive has enabled us to apply which camera feeds we want to bring them in and curate our own production. We’re leaning into the different technologies. The idea is to bring in a wider sporting audience. Audi is sponsoring Force Plates - devices in the ground that measure weight transfer during the swing. We’ll be bringing it to life in the studio. The Strike Meter is a gamified dial that assesses how well a player has hit their drive, rated out of 100. And we now have about 25 players in the Sky Scope volumetric library, for swing analysis, used in our interactive studio, The Open Zone. We will be using Open Mic at Hoylake, where we follow players with a high-powered mic and listen to the conversations between caddie and player, the viewers are really intrigued by that interaction. Following CBS and NBC, we want to give a player a set of earbuds and a phone and link them with commentators as they walk down a hole, mid-round. We’re also giving the Saturday and Sunday morning shows for The Open in Hoylake more of an entertainment bias, with special appearances from celebrities, a slightly more irreverent tone, different presenters and a different team producing. The Netlfix series Full Swing has helped colour in some of the personalities, now it’s our responsibility to take that further. With the DP World Tour, we have a walking reporter who talks to the players when they’ve hit their tee shot.
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