TV cameras at football grounds

[maccboy]

I was wondering who owns/runs/controls the TV cameras at the Premier League football grounds. I presume they are static ones that are based there permanently, and the output is used and mixed by whoever is covering the game. Are the cameras controlled by staff from the ground, or a team from outside? If it's live on Sky, and then shown later on Match of the Day, I presume the BBC team get to decide their own edits for the programme, but all of the output comes from the same cameras?

[cobra kid]

A guy I went to school with did work for BT sport and ended up all over the world covering the top top games. World cup finals etc. They always had their own tackle with them.

[ALPandy90]

In the case of large events like these (football matches, F1, Olympics, Eurovision Song Contest etc) that might be getting shown on different channels/countries there will often be a company contracted to provide cameras and operators. They then provide a broadcast feed to each channel to show and the channel can add their own commentary etc over the top.

In some cases, there might be an agreement between say, the BBC and Sky that one of them will provide the feed to the other. This prevents having to have hundreds of cameras from different channels covering the same thing.

ETA: There wont be cameras installed permanently as they can cost thousands each. They will be brought in by the production company each time they are required.

[PurpleTurtle]

Outside broadcast contractors like this?

https://www.nepgroup.co.uk/project/football

[CardinalFang]

My wife spent a couple of years as PA to the head (MD I think) of Vitec.com. Supplied outside broadcast equipment to film,& TV companies, sporting events, olympics etc. Equipment is so expensive these days, production companies lease/rent rather than buy.

[Mr Pointy]

NEP are probably the largest supplier of Outside Broadcast vehicles & equipment & they get contracts for football, golf, concerts & anything else you can think of. Arena TV were another major supplier but they went down in a £280m fraud. The kit is so expensive that it is rigged for each event & de-rigged ready for trucking to the next event. These days many grounds have permanent fibre cable rigs from the OB van location to each camera position & the commentary position but in ye olden days even the cables were rigged & de-rigged for each match.

In the case of the Premier League Sky & the BBC share the material & the BBC can re-edit the matches in Salford.

There's a push towards remote production where the camera feeds are sent back to a central location where the recording, mixing & editing is done but latency can be an issue - delays are measured in seconds which can cause many issues. F1 now has a remote production facility at Biggin Hill but there are still a lot of personnel required at the venue.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/big...