Case Study: TV8 Mont-Blanc cuts live sports production costs with Grabyo

TV8 Mont-Blanc delivers live sports production in the cloud

tv8 mont-blanc, a local french television station, faced the challenge of broadcasting a multi-day trail race from the remote alps mountains with a minimal budget and terrain inaccessible to traditional ob trucks. The broadcaster needed a solution to produce a live show for linear tv and social channels from this difficult location.

Grabyo provided a cloud-based production solution at the center of tv8's workflow. Using smartphones, a drone, and the larix app to capture footage, the remote production team used grabyo producer to manage live feeds, graphics, and vod assets. This approach saved tv8 an average of 65% on production costs, reducing the daily expense from a typical €15,000 to approximately €6,000, while enabling unique camera angles and a more dynamic viewer experience.

TV8 Mont-Blanc