Case Study: Fox Sports delivers immersive live sports broadcasting with Verizon 5G

Fox unites 5G and sports broadcasting for an immersive live experience

Fox Sports partnered with Verizon Business to find a better way to produce live sports broadcasts as competition for viewers intensified. The challenge was delivering immersive, high-quality live coverage that required high bandwidth, costly equipment, and extensive pre-production and on-field coordination.

Verizon Business used 5G Ultra Wideband, Nationwide 5G, and fallback Verizon 4G LTE to wirelessly move video feeds to the cloud for processing and production. This reduced reliance on broadcast trucks and onsite crew, cut setup time by more than a third, and let production teams ramp up in two days instead of seven for some events, while also enabling experiences like the “lean-in experience” at the 2021 Big East Tournament.

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Brad Cheney

VP, Field Operations & Engineering