Research and Insights: Behind the Scenes: COVID-19 Consequences on Broadcast Sports Production
The global pandemic has disrupted all facets of society, with one of the most notable being professional and collegiate sports. While some live sports broadcast productions had slowly been moving toward a more remote model to cut costs for years before the pandemic, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications researchers suggest COVID-19 will speed up this trend.
A recent commentary by Roxane Coche, Telecommunication assistant professor, and doctoral student Ben Lynn, highlighted three previous obstacles to live sports productions becoming completely offsite: technical limitations for communicating among the crew, expensive infrastructure for remote production hubs, and the very nature of change in a field with a traditional, late adopter mindset.
Posted: September 18, 2020
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