THE TEAM
Glenn Adamo, MD of The Switch Production Services
Charles Conroy, VP of gaming
Q : The events of the past year have seen broadcasters and other rights-holders forced to move out of their comfort zone and try new approaches. What does this mean for the industry and, specifically, The Switch? Eric Cooney: It is clear to many that transitioning to remote production and cloud-based technologies has not simply been driven by the need for social distancing, less travel, smaller production crews and other Covid-19 safety measures. What we are seeing is an acceleration of trends already occurring in the marketplace. Remote, distributed, centralised and cloud-based as-a-service models lower costs and barriers to entry for many rights-holders – enabling them to produce more live events and related programming. The result will be a shift from single-location live production set-ups, to efficient deployments of talent, production staff, signal processing and control surfaces – lowering costs and improving quality. As a managed service provider, the bottom line for The Switch is that the
In this discussion, the management team
from The Switch looks at how the past year has transformed live production. A leading global provider of production and delivery services, The Switch offers a perspective based on its experience serving broadcasters, streaming services, sports leagues, awards organisers and international enterprises
Eric Cooney, chief executive
Ian Dittbrenner, executive in charge of production & digital
market is coming to us. Our range of live production- as-a-service solutions enables broadcasters,
Robert Szabó-Rowe, SVP engineering & product management
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