FOX Sports

FOX Sports Revolutionizes Delivery of the 2018 FIFA World Cup with Aspera

Overview

“With Aspera and Telestream, our coverage will be enhanced by our ability to get more content back to our LA facility at a lower cost.”

Kevin Callahan

VP Field Operations Engineering, FOX Sports
FOX Sports is the US English language home of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Russia. The 2018 event is the largest production in FOX’s 20-year history in terms of personnel, hours, and scale. Its coverage will include 320 hours of original broadcast content and over 1,100 hours of original content. In total, all 64 matches spread over 12 venues across Russia will be broadcast in both HD and UHD – more than were broadcast in the four previous World Cups combined. Download the Fox Sports Case Study

Results:

FOX Sports’ goal was to create a cutting-edge workflow that leveraged their “home base” infrastructure to support live event production anywhere in the world, a truly revolutionary achievement for a major event of this scale. The solution has proven to be highly costeffective for the robust media handling capabilities it offers and its adaptability to the needs of both remote locations and the production staff at home. At this event alone, the resulting workflow enabled producers at FOX Sports’ Los Angeles facility to support live coverage on two channels and create over 150 World Cup feature pieces.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup operation represents an investment in FOX Sports’ future. The organization plans to utilize the joint Telestream-Aspera solution for the FIFA Women’s World Cup next year and at events such as NFL games. These events will be enhanced by the ability to get a high volume of quality content to the Los Angeles production facility for immediate action and quick turnaround. In the long term, FOX Sports’ digital content offerings will be strengthened by the ability to create and deliver more and better content to their audiences. In the end, it is the viewers who end up with a better experience.
ABOUT FOX SPORTS
FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing 21st Century Fox’s wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, FOX Sports includes ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, jointventure businesses and several licensing partnerships. FOX Sports includes the sports television arm of the FOX Broadcasting Company; FS1, FS2; FOX Sports Regional Networks, their affiliated regional web sites and national programming; FOX Soccer Plus; FOX Deportes and FOX College Sports. FOX Sports also encompasses FOX Sports Digital, which includes FOXSports.com, FOX Sports App and FOX Sports GO. Also included in the Group are FOX’s interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network and BTN 2Go, as well as a licensing agreement that establish the FOX Sports Radio Network.
ABOUT ASPERA
Aspera, an IBM Company, is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented, Emmy® award-winning FASP® protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.
ABOUT TELESTREAM
Telestream, Inc. is a privately-held provider of software and hardware products for video capture, encoding, transcoding, and network-based delivery. Products include desktop components, screencasting, video streaming, cross-platform encoding software and transcoding applications to automate enterprise-class digital video workflows
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