Case Study: University of Rhode Island gives students real-life sports production skills with Grass Valley Viper XXL

University of Rhode Island Relies on Grass Valley Solutions to Give Students Real-Life Sports Production Skills

The University of Rhode Island needed to provide its Sports Media students with a professional, real-world broadcasting experience to prepare them for careers in live sports production. To meet this challenge, the university partnered with vendor Grass Valley to implement a state-of-the-art remote production workflow.

Grass Valley's solution centered on its Viper XXL bidirectional fiber transmission system, which enabled a remote production setup. This allowed students to control cameras at distant sporting venues directly from the campus broadcast center. The implementation was a success, giving students hands-on experience with industry-standard technology and extending the control room's capabilities to cover events across campus, which also proved critical for supporting distance learning during the pandemic.

University of Rhode Island

Jeff Fountain

Manager, Broadcast Center and Video Production Engineer