40 SPORTS FOCUS Polish Football
streaming and understand the benefits it can have on Polish football. The players want more coverage. In Poland it’s easy to catch a game of football played by the men’s national team, but they want the rest of the world to see. Conversely, the women’s national team, second league and youth teams have minimal coverage on linear television, if any,” explains Kuszel. “The fans want to see more; they want insights into the players and coverage of conferences and events. We have the rights to broadcast this, so why not give the fans what they want? I like to think of what we do as essentially trying to show everything that linear television doesn’t,” he adds. For the game coverage, Transmisjelive deploys an Ultra HD OB system, which is built around a Blackmagic Design workflow and includes signal management through a Smart Videohub. Ursa Broadcast camera signals are routed to an ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K switcher, where the team overlays graphics and adds slow- motion replays into the programme mix using a NewTek 3Play 3P1 system. “We choose to work with an almost complete Blackmagic Design workflow, because of its modular nature. We’re still a relatively small company; we didn’t have an investor or some guy with huge amounts of cash. When we were building our company, we could only afford to buy equipment gradually.” Kuszel adds: “I say ‘almost complete’ because Blackmagic Design does not currently do replay systems – it would be great if it did, though.” Kuszel reveals that the set-up changes depending on the size of the event. For
example, some of the youth teams’ games only have two or four crew members instead of twenty, and there are two cameras instead of eight. “We have a phrase in Polish that does not have a literal translation in English, so I will try to explain it as best as I can,” Kuszel says. “PZPN is a great client of ours, but money is also of value to us. This means the youth teams‘ games are set up a little differently to others. But it all depends on how prestigious and big an event is because, sometimes, the youth teams’
games are in collaboration with UEFA Champions League, and for those we will deploy full crew and equipment.” CAUGHT IN POSSESSION The games are livestreamed to PZPN’s official YouTube channel and Facebook page, because Kuszel says these platforms are the most popular in Poland right now. On Facebook, PZPN’s page has over 1.1 million followers. “Our president, Andrzej Duda, was the first head of state to use Facebook Live
FOOTBALL, FUTBOLOWY Transmisjelive employs Blackmagic Ursa Broadcast cameras to livestream the football matches
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