NEP Group is expanding its global production ecosystem with new strategic partnerships, starting with the successful launch of the new MLS Season Pass platform.
As part of its partnership with MLS, NEP is providing a multitude of services to support the football league’s full season of more than 950 matches, including: mobile units on-site at every venue, remote and/or centralised support of multiple game feeds from NEP’s New York, Miami and Los Angeles production hubs, studios and control rooms supporting Spanish and English-language pregame, postgame and whip-around shows, media asset management through NEP’s Mediabank product, technical management, crewing and operations support, connectivity between venues, and other infrastructure and systems management.
Following the company’s success with MLS, the recent relaunch of the XFL in the U.S., and the integration of centralised, cloud-based workstreams with traditional live production support for the recent Olympics, Commonwealth Games and World Cup, during 2023 NEP will be working with the PGA TOUR, NASCAR, Swedish Ice Hockey, World Rally Championship and the new Dyn Media Sport offering in Germany.
These new partnerships are in addition to NEP’s existing Centralised and Connected Production offerings around the world, as well as recent contract extensions to support NFL broadcasters, this year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia, and Indian Premier League coverage in India, said the company.
The company said it wants to offer rights holders and sports leagues a full range of “end-to-end” solutions that capture the action on the field and deliver it to fans anywhere, on any device, in near real-time.
The global production ecosystem has been created to allow for any combination of traditional broadcast support, at one or multiple event venues, with remote or centralised production capabilities managed off-site.
NEP currently has 20 connected production hubs, 15 of which are operated and managed by NEP, as well as more than 70 production control rooms (PCRs), and six broadcast-ready NEP data centres in Dallas, Hilversum, Oslo, Singapore, Sydney, and Melbourne.
“Centralised and Connected Production is already a big part of our global platform, so it only makes sense to expand our capabilities with our clients, wherever they are. We now have permanent production hubs in the US, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the U.K., and through our flagship facility, the Andrews Hub in Australia, which we upgraded last year to 100 per cent IP,” said NEP CEO Brian Sullivan.
“We also have new capabilities coming online in Singapore and have seen success in temporary installations connecting workflows across multiple stadiums. The best part is that centralised and connected production is complementary to our core business. It enables us to bring more production options, tools, and flexibility to our clients.”
