UEFA Fully-Remote Cloud Production for Youth League
Date: 2024-04-18 Category: Portfolio Location: UK
Project
We were invited by BT Sport, TNT and Warner Brothers Discovery to collaborate across their UEFA Youth League Cloud Productions in the 2022/23 Season. Together we provided Host Broadcast Operations for the UEFA Youth League across six successful cloud production matches. In the 2023-24 season this was renewed and taken a step further; as a unique and world-leading production:
- Fully Remote
- OB Truck Free
- Generator Free
- Full Camera Facilities; Talkback, Return Vision, Racking, Tallies
- No Special Circuits, Vision or Satellite
- Complete Software-Defined Production Workflow in the Cloud
Mission
BT Sport originally teamed up with Limitless to harness our cutting-edge, ultra-agile broadcast approach, enabling UEFA and BT Sport to explore the future of football broadcast.
Throughout the seasons we provided the end-to-end solution, including production and project management, gallery team and engineering
integration, remote racking, tally, and comms from Limitless PCRs, on-prem resources, all cameras and grip,
engineering and cloud integration, as well as broadcast crew and camera operations.
The output was sent to both TNT Sport live on their linear channels but also to UEFA for their world-feed media partners via BT Tower.
Impact
We have pioneered a new workflow where, despite big changes, full broadcast quality is the standard, and all production and on-site operations are empowered in their work. There is no compromise despite the lack of compound, truck, or traditional broadcast infrastructure. Rather, success is found in the discreet, seamless, and invisible move to cloud.
After multiple tests of cloud-based production in the previous season, this was the first full season of fully remote cloud football coverage and we are pleased to report it was a resounding success with a stable output across every transmission.
