Not nowadays, more and more remote production for larger and larger events, and it’s coming on rapidly. Directors are increasing sitting in centralised control rooms rather than in a scanner.
BT sport are interesting, spin up graphics, replay, etc in an AWS environment a couple of hours before. I was impressed by their uefa youth league coverage a couple of years ago, and they aren’t slowing down
Obviously not every broadcast, or even most, are remote now, but it’s an ever increasing number.
I don’t know how the US industry works, I suspect the heavy union presence I’ve seen at places like NAB will slow it, but in Europe remote production is increasingly the future.
BT sport are interesting, spin up graphics, replay, etc in an AWS environment a couple of hours before. I was impressed by their uefa youth league coverage a couple of years ago, and they aren’t slowing down
https://www.limitlessbroadcast.tv/portfolio/uefa-youth-leagu...
https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/stratospheric-revol...
Obviously not every broadcast, or even most, are remote now, but it’s an ever increasing number.
I don’t know how the US industry works, I suspect the heavy union presence I’ve seen at places like NAB will slow it, but in Europe remote production is increasingly the future.