42 GENIUS INTERVIEW Brian Scheil
wireless internet. That was all hardwired. There was no cellular bonding technology to give you internet back then at all. Live streaming was still an expensive process. You had to have your own streaming platform; you had to have your own infrastructure to get it to the streaming platform. Then, when YouTube came out with its free platform, things really started to multiply. FEED: What types of live streaming projects are you focusing on most? BRIAN SHEIL: I’ve done the MTV Movie & TV Awards for 15 years and Live from Lincoln Center was Emmy nominated for the best live stream content. We have been lucky enough to get jobs like the Pride March in New York for Netflix. We put our TriCaster on the Netflix pride parade float for Netflix and streamed the route down 5th Avenue. A three-hour parade route, live. We had many devices on this parade float with us, with competing technologies.
TO BUY THE INTERNET OUT ON THE RED CARPET ALREADY BLOWS YOUR BUDGET RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER, AND EVEN THEN, THERELIABILITY ISSTILL INQUESTION
We had an uplink and downlink to a remote location, with another switcher in that remote location where they monitored all the downlinks. We used LiveU cellular bonded technology for the uplink – it was the LiveU 500 at the time, with the LiveU Xtender external antenna. The only one of our uplink devices that worked for the whole three-hour trip – with virtually zero dropout – was the LiveU pack. So we stayed with that stream the whole time. We’ve become known for live situations with crowds of people around – all on their
cell phones – and still being able to get the broadcast out, even in that congested environment. We’ve done a lot of streams for the Stand Up To Cancer benefit, which is a multi-network, philanthropic organisation in America. The team at The Voice called us and America’s Got Talent , too, and we found ourselves producing part of the live streams that would accompany the finale TV shows. We also do a lot of work for MTV. Two years ago, MTV came out with Wonderland , which is a live music and
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