these individual homes and create a production out of it. Oh yeah, and ESPN really wants it for linear.’” However, LTN already had a head-start on remote production. “We have a great innovation team, led by John Denison, that is always forward-thinking. At NAB a couple of years ago, one of the ideas he was pushing was that one day we’re all going to operate equipment from home, and it’s going to be the new normal.” ESPN’s broadcast of Madden Bowl 2020 was a big win for mainstreaming esports. The network has been carrying pro-gaming content for a while now, but with traditional sports shuttering in the face of the pandemic, pro gaming was taking centre stage. Fans were craving live sports and here it was. Remote feeds were all brought into the production infrastructure at the Kansas City headquarters. “EA have a great production team and engineering staff. What made it a success was the LTN network backbone and fully managed service alongside it. Being able to log-in to encoders and decoders at over 40 different homes country-wide, and maximise quality and latency of those signals, was huge.”
I THINK THE INDUSTRY PUSHED FIVE YEARS AHEAD OF WHERE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THE PANDEMIC DIDN’T HAPPEN
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