It’s not news that hockey is popular in Finland. Ilves-Hockey Oy, based in Tampere, Finland, is one of the professional teams in the top level SM Liiga.
To keep in touch with fans and club members, broadcast games and provide pregame and post-game shows for radio broadcast the team uses Jutel RadioMan automation.
Unlike the more familiar big sports programming production divisions and companies seen in North America, Europe and even Asia, the Ilves “team” works just with a laptop or a tablet, a headset or Rodecaster microphone. No studios or trucks. The lightweight package allows the broadcast crew to move around arenas and stick close to the action and follow the team into the locker room.
The team’s Executive Producer Valtteri Makkonen said, “It’s amazing that we can conduct post-game interviews right from the heart of the team, inside the locker room, capturing authentic sounds and emotions to bring into the broadcast.”
RadioMan allows for the ingestion of live and prerecorded content along with the creation of recorded material. Makkonen explained, “We can rely on the fact that interviews conducted during the game will be automatically recorded in the system, eliminating the need for separate recording. They can be easily extracted at the end of the day, enabling effortless production of material from live interviews for future broadcasts.”
Plus linking RadioMan with the internet turns it into an international-capable broadcaster on the cheap.
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