UPDATE > INITIATIVES & GROUPS In a continuing effort to better serve the informational needs of the sports-venue industry, SVG’s Venue Initiative sponsors once again welcomed industry leaders to their booths at the 2019 NAB Show for tailored technology demos and in-depth conversations. In June, SVG traveled to Detroit for the annual SVG Venue Summit, which was hosted by Little Caesars Arena (page 16).
The launch of the highly anticipated ACC Network kept college sports video production in the spotlight this year and SVG College was right there alongside the 15 schools and ESPN leading up to the debut. SVG College has hosted regional events outlining efforts at Duke University, the University of Louisville, the University of Notre Dame, and Georgia Tech while profiling many others in SVG’s editorial coverage. The SVG College Regional Event Series is also rolling on strong with a visit to Harvard University scheduled for October 30, 2019, to engage the New England collegiate community and to tour the Crimson’s impressive facilities built around NDI IP workflows. The SVG College Sports Summit, the annual destination for college video professionals, returns to Atlanta on May 27-29, 2020.
Direct-to-consumer subscription-based streaming services are all the rage in sports video distribution today, so what does that mean for the rapidly scaling world of live streaming and OTT tech? SVG Digital is a rapidly growing segment of the SVG community with a series of events for you and members of your team to enjoy. This
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past July, SVG hosted its annual SVG Sports OTT Forum (page 20). Next year’s Sports OTT Forum will be bumped up to earlier in the year and is expected to be held in March 2020.
In an effort to better serve the sportsproduction community coast to coast, SVG Platinum Series meetups focus on a wide variety of markets across the country. Following a successful SVG Platinum Series event at Sneaky Big Studios’ facility in Scottsdale, AZ, SVG traveled to Seattle on May 8 for an evening of drinks and networking. The next SVG Platinum Series meetup will take place in Boston this fall. In recent years, SVG has visited Coloado, Florida, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto.
WOMEN IN SPORTS PRODUCTION
SVGW has had a busy 2019, with no signs of slowing down! At the 2019 NAB Show, more than 50 women attended a networking lunch that featured a keynote conversation with Imagine
Communications’ Dr. Glodina ConnanLostanlen. The following month, SVGW returned to the SVG College Summit in Atlanta with a networking event that featured a keynote conversation with ESPN’s Jen Lada, followed by a panel discussion comprising three leading women in college sports video. This fall, SVGW will host networking receptions in New York City (Oct. 17) and Los Angeles (Nov. 18), and will cap off the year on December 16 with the group’s annual meeting at the SVG Summit in NYC.
The SVG Content Security Work Group was created to strengthen the processes by which content is protected throughout the lifecycle of production, distribution, and archiving, based on the input of SVG’s membership, including broadcasters, rights owners, and production service providers. The Work Group’s recent efforts have focused on two fronts: working with SVG members to introduce its Best Practices to their production teams and discussing technology network security efforts with key equipment partners. <
ADVISORY COMMITTEES In addition to SVG’s industry initiatives, we also cultivate thought-leadership groups within several different sectors of the business to advance the creation, production, and distribution of sports content. These include Advisory Committees dedicated to Sports Content Management, Sports Graphics, Regional Sports Networks (RSNs), TranSPORT (sports-content transmission), and a soon-to-be formed SVG Esports Production Advisory Committee. These thought-leadership groups — along with the SVG College, SVG Digital, and SVG Venue Advisory Committees — gather regularly to address topof-mind issues and help to program the agendas for SVG’s corresponding annual events in an effort to help better educate and unite their respective industries.
For more information on SVG’s Advisory Committees, visit www.sportsvideo.org/svg-advisory-board/
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