Innovative broadcast set-up at the Rugby World Cup 2023 Draw To mitigate these absences, World Rugby and HBS designed and implemented a set-up using TVU solutions that still allowed for an interactive and dynamic broadcast product for fans around the world, indicates World Rugby head of communications Dominic Rumbles.
View Related Products
Connecting each location.
While many sports events are at a standstill, or have had to reduce their activity and scope due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adapting to the constraints of the new normal' situation is the key to finding ways of offering a robust broadcast product for the ones that are still taking place.
Such solutions maintain the engagement and create anticipation for the world-class events that will be held in the coming years.
Looking towards the future and starting preparations for the next Rugby World Cup, which will be held in France in 2023, World Rugby and the France 2023 Organising Committee, hosted the event's draw at Paris' Palais Brongniart on 14 December 2020. Host Broadcast Services (HBS) was tasked with capturing the event.
How TVU live video solutions were used.
With ongoing travel restrictions, many of the team representatives couldn't physically be in Paris on the day of the draw.
To mitigate these absences, World Rugby and HBS designed and implemented a set-up that still allowed for an interactive and dynamic broadcast product for fans around the world, indicates World Rugby head of communications Dominic Rumbles.
Apart from the French coach, Fabien Galthi , who was able to attend the draw, the other 11 coaches from South Africa, New Zealand, England, Wales, Ireland, Australia, Japan, Scotland, Argentina, Fiji and Italy, had to follow the draw from their home base.
The participation of the head coaches was key to generating and meeting the huge global media and fan interest. When needed, we organised for production crews to capture their reactions wherever they were in the world while respecting the respective COVID-19 measures, Rumbles continues.
The highest standards.
In some cases, the coaches were filmed by members of their staff, with their own equipment; for set-ups where the interviewee needed to be fully isolated (in a safety bubble'), the live footage was captured from the location via the coaches' own devices, using professional video contribution software. In other situations, World Rugby and HBS sent camera operators and their kit on site.
Transmissions back to France were done using a cellular-bonded unit, the TVU One from TVU Networks, fitted with up to six SIM cards covering all the main local telco operators.
With this solution, even though we were using a 4G public network to uplink the data to the cloud, we were putting in place a fail-safe environment. The unit is capable of instantly switching from one provider to another if there is a drop in the quality of the connection, thus ensuring that the telco infrastructure through which we beamed the data was reliable and redundant, details Rafael Castillo, vice president of Europe at TVU Networks.
Setting up such an operation was not without its challenges. Logistically speaking, shipping nine units across the world in the middle of a pandemic kept the team fully occupied. Editorially as well, briefings had to be held between the HBS production team and members of the teams' staff in charge of filming the coaches, to ensure a level of consistency was maintained across the board.
About Rugby World Cup 2023:
The most daunting hurdle, however, proved to be technical. The coaches were receiving the feed of the live draw through a web real-time communication (RTC) protocol, which can be subject to a small amount of latency. Their footage was transferred back to a local server in Paris through the cloud, which is a route that can also experience a build-up of latency.
In itself, this was not an issue for those attending the live event, but it posed a conundrum for the broadcast-distributed version of the draw, as the narrative of such a showcase is heavily reliant on capturing the live reactions of the coaches at the precise moment the results are announced, explains Gary Shaw, Rugby World Cup 2023 project director for HBS.
To avoid finding themselves in a situation where the viewer would have to wait a few seconds between the announcement of the pools in Paris and the coaches' reaction, the production team had to come up with an innovative solution where the feed of the physical event would be buffered to align with the moment the coverage of the coaches was downlinked in the OB van.
Creating this loop then allowed the production teams to mix the video and audio sources following the usual protocol, to produce a broadcast-worthy show.
We always say live is king, but in cases like this, where you have to factor in more than ten sources coming from different locations, curating content becomes paramount to producing a show that maintains the high standards we've set, concludes Shaw.
Thanks to an effective mix of technology, editorial talent and flexibility, the Rugby World Cup 2023 Draw was able to offer fans a first taste of what will be an unforgettable event.
The 2023 Rugby World Cup Draw took place on 14 December 2020 in Paris. The tournament itself will take place in September and October 2023 in France.
Read the full story on SVG Europe website.
Most recent headlines
11/12/2025
Dalet, a leading provider of cloud-native, end-to-end media workflow solutions, ...
06/12/2025
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A new survey from Pixitmedia by Datacore revealed a major shift in the Media & Entertainment industry in media archiving, with 85% of resp...
06/12/2025
HACKENSACK, N.J. LiveU has announced that the national public broadcaster Czech Television has completed one of the largest LiveU live production deployments fo...
06/12/2025
NEW YORK The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) presented the Excellence in Production Technology Emmy Award to NASA+ and Dr. Tom Leight...
05/12/2025
2025 Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: Curt Gowdy Jr. - Master Storyteller, Nati...
05/12/2025
SVG Sit-Down: Veritone's Sean King on the Power of Mining Video, Audio DataThe company's Data Refinery offers users total control and governance over da...
05/12/2025
Platinum White Paper: Inside the Nashville Predators' Unified, Flexible, Sca...
05/12/2025
Netflix Reaches Agreement To Acquire Warner Bros. Following Planned WBD SplitThe deal does not include WBDs sports assets like TNT Sports (US, UK, LatAm), Euros...
05/12/2025
FOX Sports Returns to Indianapolis for Primetime Broadcast of Big Ten Championsh...
05/12/2025
SVG Summit 2025 Preview: Digital Engagement & Monetization Workshop Tackles the ...
05/12/2025
Atlanta United Lights Up New Emory Healthcare Studio With First Live Broadcast f...
05/12/2025
As Messi Takes the Pitch, MLS, Apple, NEP Roll Out Largest MLS Cup Production Ev...
05/12/2025
ESPN Enters College Football's Most Intense Month With Elevated Workflows fo...
05/12/2025
It's about that time! Awards season is in full swing, and the Film Independe...
05/12/2025
Every year, Spotify Wrapped offers a personalized look back at the audio that defined your year. It's a snapshot of your listening habits, designed to tell ...
05/12/2025
In 2025, Spotify's EQUAL, GLOW, and RADAR programs celebrated women, LGBTQIA , and emerging artists who turned moments into milestones. From breaking record...
05/12/2025
In our latest blog, we explain how Wi-Fi 7 rollouts can drive consumer loyalty with value-add services such as consumer cybersecurity. We also explore how this ...
05/12/2025
LOS ANGELES Netflix announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion....
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Nielsens Gracenote has launched Gracenote Content Connect, a new ad platform that provides agencies, brands, supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-si...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK In an most important update to the workings of deal-based programmatic advertising, IAB Tech Lab has released version 1.0 of its Deals API for public c...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Pass the turkey. Pass the stuffing. Pass the cranberry sauce. All are common requests of Americans celebrating Thanksgiving Day with family and f...
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Iris, the new cloud-connected camera control platform, has officially launched with features that turn virtually any PTZ camera into a software-connect...
05/12/2025
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Netflix announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion....
05/12/2025
NEW YORK Iris, the new cloud-connected camera control platform, has officially launched with features that turn virtually any PTZ camera into a software-connect...
05/12/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's $1.02 billion acquisition of spectrum from UScellular in a decision that was issued sho...
05/12/2025
The Best Coldplay Songs: 21 Tracks That Shoot for the Stars From Yellow to Viva La Vida, Fix You to Paradise, this playlist goes back to the start.
December ...
05/12/2025
Zafris Lecture Series Brings Nabil Ayers to Berklee The 32nd annual James G. Zafris Distinguished Lecture series was held on Thursday, November 13, with guest...
05/12/2025
Friday 5 December 2025
A new Game of Thrones Tale: Official trailer for Sky Exc...
05/12/2025
Back to All News
Don Lee, Lee Jin-uk, and Lalisa Manobal to Star in Netflix Act...
05/12/2025
Tis the season of giving once again and this year we've taken our Give Back Fridays' concept and turned it on its head.
In the autumn we were approach...
05/12/2025
Brayden Gogis doesn't remember a time when he wasn't completely fixated on games in all forms. In preschool, when they asked us to dress up as what we ...
05/12/2025
The Grinch steals the spotlight as the theme for The Late Late Toy Show 2025
Tune in tonight at 9:35pm on RT One and worldwide on RT Player
#LateLateToyShow...
05/12/2025
RT Announces New Presenters of Flagship News Programmes
New RT Six One News co-presenter Tommy Meskill
Sarah McInerney & Justin McCarthy join Morning Ir...
04/12/2025
ToolsOnAir Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Event Presets for just:in mac pro 2025 & ...
04/12/2025
ToolsOnAir AJA Ki Pro Event Presets for just:in mac pro 2025 & just:in linux
More Details:Starting with version 5.5, both just:in mac pro and just:in linux sol...
04/12/2025
Wangu Kanuri from Kenya and Godwin Asediba from Ghana are two of this years finalists for Thomsons Young Journalist of the Year Award. The pair are runners-up i...
04/12/2025
SVG Sit-Down: ProximaVision's Claudio Lisman on Why Tethered Drones Could Be...
04/12/2025
SVG Campus Shot Callers: Imry Halevi, Senior Associate Director of Athletics, Co...
04/12/2025
Platinum White Paper: LiveU Lightweight Sports Production: A Step Change in Spor...
04/12/2025
London to Riyadh: DAZN brings the boxing glamour to new production levels for Be...
04/12/2025
Analysis: Paramount bets on the battering ram' with Champions League play By Callum McCarthy, Editor-at-Large
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 10:12
Print ...
04/12/2025
Space City Home Network Launches SCHN DTC App for Astros and RocketsThe Rockets and Astros were previously the lone NBA and MLB teams without a DTC appBy Jason...
04/12/2025
SVG Summit 2025 Preview: Content Workflows Workshop Spotlights Evolution of Spor...
04/12/2025
New Sponsor Spotlight: Geotech's Patrick Wambold On the Unreal Engine Revolu...
04/12/2025
Curt Gowdy Jr. - Master Storyteller, Nationally and RegionallyBy Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:52 pm
Print This Sto...
04/12/2025
(L-R) Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki, and Judith Helfand att...
04/12/2025
SBS launches Future Frames initiative to support emerging First Nations video ed...
04/12/2025
Coronal mass ejections caused by eruptions on the surface of the sun can have fa...
04/12/2025
Gracenote Content Connect enables media ecosystem to precisely align ad campaigns and programming based on rich content signals
NEW YORK - December 4, 2025 - N...
Innovative broadcast set-up at the Rugby World Cup 2023 Draw To mitigate these absences, World Rugby and HBS designed and implemented a set-up using TVU solutions that still allowed for an interactive and dynamic broadcast product for fans around the world, indicates World Rugby head of communications Dominic Rumbles.
