NBA on NBC/Peacock: NBC Sports, NEP Build Ultra-Flexible Production Plan That Seamlessly Blends Onsite, REMI Models

NBA on NBC/Peacock: NBC Sports, NEP Build Ultra-Flexible Production Plan That Seamlessly Blends Onsite, REMI Models Sunday, Monday, Tuesday games will be produced with a mix of workflows By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 3:28 pm

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Tonight, for the first time in 23 years, Roundball Rock is officially back. When the NBA tips off on NBC and Peacock this evening with an Opening Night doubleheader - Oklahoma City Thunder-Houston Rockets followed by Golden State Warriors-Los Angeles Lakers - it will mark a new chapter for the iconic sports franchise. In terms of total games, NBC has the largest package of the league's three rightsholders with 100 regular-season games plus an extensive playoffs schedule and NBA All-Star Weekend on the slate.

To pull it off, NBC Sports' remote-operations team worked with NEP Group to come up with an ultra-flexible production model that will allow NBC/Peacock's mix of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday games to be produced seamlessly onsite or remotely from its Stamford, CT, broadcast center from week to week.

NBC is relying on a fleet of six NEP mobile units for its NBA productions this year, including its Coast 2 Coast Tuesday package.

We are all incredibly excited and proud to bring the NBA back to NBC after more than two decades, says Craig Bernstein, VP, remote tech operations and engineering, NBC Sports Group. We have a solid operational plan in place that will allow our production teams the ability to move seamlessly between our core mobile units without missing a beat between shows.

Busy Week: Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays, Oh My! Starting Oct. 27, Peacock will stream up to three games nationwide on Monday nights throughout the regular season (46 games), as well as a 30-minute studio program leading into game coverage. These games will be either an onsite or a REMI production depending on the week.

Beginning Oct. 28, Coast 2 Coast Tuesdays will feature East Coast/West Coast doubleheaders on NBC and Peacock. Both games (42 in total) and a 30-minute studio program will stream live nationwide on Peacock. On most Tuesdays, one game will be produced onsite and the other handled remotely from a Stamford production-control room (PCR).

NBC is able to produce NBA games both from site (like on this NEP mobile unit) or in Stamford from a REMI PCR.

Launching Feb. 1, Sunday Night Basketball will feature 11 primetime NBA games on NBC and Peacock through April 5 (Feb. 8 and 15 excepted) and include three doubleheaders. A one-hour onsite studio program will lead into game coverage each week on NBC and Peacock. All SNB games will be produced fully onsite; the studio operation, out of a Stamford PCR.

With a half dozen games or more on some weeks, NBC needed to think bigger than simply launching a new set of A-game trucks. It needed a coast-to-coast multi-truck fleet able to handle different production models: onsite, REMI, or a hybrid of the two.

We needed to come up with a system that was flexible enough to give us the ability to do both on-prem and REMI productions seamlessly out of any truck, says Bernstein. We didn't want to run into a situation where a REMI truck was in Miami but the game was in Seattle and it had to go across the entire country. We wanted all five trucks to be interchangeable. We worked with NEP to come up with a great solution that's largely based on their TFC platform.

NBC is deploying NEP TFC (Total Facility Control) broadcast-orchestration platform to tie hardware and software from multiple vendors into one interface, simplifying control, automating tasks, and standardizing workflows.

NEP TFC software broadcast-orchestration platform is at the core of the NBA on NBC production model

NBC will produce three levels of shows: A-game onsite productions (Opening Night, SNB, playoffs and conference finals), B-game onsite productions (Monday and Tuesday ET primetime and playoffs), and C-game REMI productions in Stamford (Monday and Tuesday PT primetime).

I'm very happy with the technical solution heading into this season, says Bernstein. I think it gives us a lot of flexibility and, most important, gives the production folks the ability to go into any truck and do their show without having to adjust anything. Whichever truck they are in, it's going to look the same, it's going to feel the same, and it's going to have the same capabilities across the board.

NEP Supershooter 10 is among six mobile units capable of producing onsite or REMI shows for The NBA on NBC this season.

A sextet of NEP trucks will serve NBC's various onsite and REMI NBA productions: Supershooter 10, Supershooter 12, Supershooter 8, Supershooter 22, Supershooter 7, and Supershooter 6 - all with accompanying ST B units. Sunbelt Rentals is supplying all power systems in NBA on NBC compounds this season. NBC is also working to integrate some pieces of TFC in Stamford to make it even easier to shift shows between the various trucks.

The incredible support and partnership of the NEP Group and [President, NEP Americas] Mike Werteen has been incredible, says Ken Goss, EVP, remote and studio operations, NBC Sports. The fleet of mobile units we have secured is unmatched for our NBA regular season and postseason broadcasts.

In addition to providing the mobile units and TFC backbone, NEP Specialty Capture (formerly Fletcher, BSI, and AVS) and NEP Rentals (formerly Bexel) are providing all specialty cameras and rental equipment, respectively.

On the transmission side, NBC will use a mix of JPEG XS paths, LiveU, and Appear x20 for contribution from site to Stamford. In addition, Signiant servers in each mobile unit support file transfer between the two locations.

In addition to the REMI PCRs that will house a third of NBC's NBA game prod

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