Here Are SVG's Most Read Stories of 2020 By SVG Staff
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - 1:46 pm
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Another year is in the books and we're all more than ready to put 2020 behind us and look ahead to 2021. However, despite a year fraught with challenges and despair, 2020 also featured plenty of inspiring stories and groundbreaking innovation across the sports-production industry. SVG covered many of these productions and storylines over the past 12 months and here is a countdown of our 25 most-read stories of 2020.
No. 25 - NFL Kickoff 2020: ESPN's New Studio on Roof of Seaport Facility Houses Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown
No. 24 - NFL Kickoff 2020: Behind the Scenes With NBC's Sunday Night Football Operations Team
No. 23 - Booted From Broadcast Center by the Pandemic, FOX Deportes Network Operates From a PCR in a Garage
No. 22 MLS Is Back Tournament: ESPN's Host-Feed Production Features Unprecedented Tech Arsenal
No. 21 - SoFi Stadium Construction Progresses With Installation of Massive 4K, Dual-Sided Videoboard
No. 20 - FOX Sports SUN Crew Captured a Gorgeous Replay of a Caught Stealing During Tuesday Night's Rays-Braves Telecast
No. 19 - Allegiant Stadium Becomes Raiders' New Fortress on the Las Vegas Skyline
No. 18 - Live From Super Bowl LIV: Fox Sports Set To Debut New Graphics Look for Big Game
No. 17 - Fox Sports' Kevin Callahan Discusses Rapid Evolution of Super Bowl Compounds
No. 16 - Live From Super Bowl LIV: Mike Davies and Fox Sports Team Prepare to Make UHD/HDR History
No. 15 - Texas Rangers Open Doors to Globe Life Field With Full-IP Control Room
No. 14 - NFL Kickoff 2020: League Debuts Crowd-Sound System Designed for Fanless Stadiums
No. 13 - UFC Creates Live-Production Ecosystem From Scratch on Fight Island' in Abu Dhabi
No. 12 - The Return of NHRA: Game Creek Nitro Powers On-Site Production; Sony Ci Powers Off-Site Needs
No. 11 - WWE SummerSlam: WWE Goes All Out at Amway Center With New Thunderdome' Viewing Experience
SVG'S TOP TEN OF 2020 No. 10 - Live From Daytona 500: Fox Sports Headlines 20th Consecutive Year With FPV Racing Drone, 80-Ft. Strada Crane
Imagine being the host broadcaster for Super Bowl LIV. Now add the task of relaunching football's newest property, the XFL. To top it off, mix in NASCAR's storied tradition in Daytona Beach, FL. For Fox Sports, the past 14 days have been a whirlwind, to say the least. In its 20th season at the Daytona 500, the broadcaster is flaunting new technologies in the infield, such as an FPV racing drone and Strada crane, relying on SMT's data-tracking for virtual applications, and integrating with locations in Charlotte, NC, and Los Angeles.
No. 9 - NHL Returns: League, NBC Sports, Rogers SportsNet Ready Made-for-TV Product as Quest for Stanley Cup Resumes
It has been a big week for bubbles in the sports-television world. The NWSL successfully completed its Challenge Cup. The MLS Is Back Tournament is rolling along COVID-free. And the NBA enjoyed a triumphant return on Thursday evening. Now it's the NHL's turn. The league returns to action on Saturday with a slate of five Qualifying Round games.
No. 8 - NBA Returns: ESPN, Turner, NBA Team Up for Sprawling, COVID-Safe Production at Wide World of Sports
The long wait is over, and the NBA returns to the hardcourt tonight with a Jazz-Pelicans and Clippers-Lakers doubleheader from the league's bubble at Disney's Wide World of Sports (WWoS) complex in Orlando. The pair of telecasts on TNT will tip off one of the largest undertakings in NBA broadcast history with the NBA, ESPN, and Turner Sports teaming up to produce not only national telecasts but also world feeds for hundreds of regional-sports-network broadcasts across the country.
No. 7 - Pickleball Mania World Championship Helps Fill Live Sports Void on ESPN3
As sports broadcasters and live-streaming outlets seek to fill the void of live content for fans during the coronavirus pandemic, more fringe sports are finding their way into the mainstream. Exhibit A: Pickleball Mania World Championship, which is streaming today exclusively on ESPN3 beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET. The event, which features four of the world's top pro pickleball players vying for the Pickleball Mania Crown, is being produced with a skeleton crew at a private residence under strict quarantine.
No. 6 NFL Draft 2020: ESPN Production, Disney DTCI Technology Teams Tackle Most Unique Draft Production Ever
The NFL Draft is a live production that has never been short on obstacles. Whether it was pulling feeds out of a hotel ballroom in the '80s to stringing aerial cameras over a sea of rowdy humanity on the Cumberland River Greenway in Downtown Nashville last year, the NFL Draft has always presented ESPN's staff with brain-bending puzzles that it has thrived on solving. This Draft, though, is something totally different.
No. 5 - NBA Returns: Audio in the Bubble Features Mics From Floor to Ceiling
Describing the audio infrastructure as the most challenging and complex ever undertaken for an NBA season, Dave Grundtvig, lead A1 for Turner Sports' coverage of the league's compressed and strange season, is still tweaking the games' sounds over a week into play.
No. 4 - Activision Blizzard Esports Blazes Cloud-Based Remote-Production Trail With Grass Valley's New GV AMPP Platform
In April 2018, Activision Blizzard Esports knew that its newly minted Overwatch League operation would be moving from centralized tournaments at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, CA, to a home-and-away model in 2020. With that in mind, the broadcast team was on the lookout for a fully cloud-based remote-production system, which did not yet exist, to serve Blizzard Esports' ultra-customized live-production need
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