Case Study: FOX Sports achieves five-site, high-quality Daytona 500 live streaming with Telestream Wirecast and Wirecast Restream

FOX Sports Throws Daytona 500 Infield Party using Wirecast from Telestream

FOX Sports Digital produced the first-ever “Daytona 500 Infield Party” — a 4.5-hour, multi-camera second‑screen live stream during the 2019 Daytona 500 — but faced a major challenge: they needed to deliver the event simultaneously to five destinations (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Caffeine.TV and FOXsports.com) while operating with limited NASCAR‑provided uplink bandwidth (15 Mbps) and a small four‑person crew.

To solve this, the team used Telestream Wirecast for production and Wirecast Restream (Telestream Cloud) to offload multi‑destination distribution: Wirecast sent a single uplink to the cloud, which then reliably pushed streams to all five platforms. The workflow kept on‑site compute and bandwidth requirements low, enabled a compact crew to run the show, produced a high‑quality broadcast, generated more than 350,000 views, and established a model FOX Sports will reuse for future live remotes.

Fox Sports

Daniela Mayock

Live/Technical Director