Telstra Inks Fox Sports Deal To Centralize Live TV Coverage Across 29 Aussie Stadiums

Telstra signed a multi-million dollar deal with Fox Sports to "help centralise production of live sports television coverage across 29 Australian stadiums to bases in Sydney and Melbourne," according to Max Mason of the AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW. The new partnership "will see the lion's share of production work shift to two new remote production hubs in Sydney and Melbourne," owned by Fox Sports' production partner NEP, "rather than being done on site in large production trucks, which are typically expensive assets," roughly A$10M-A$15M ($7.4M-$11M) each. Raw camera feeds, audio and equipment control signals "will be sent to those new production hubs via Telstra's Distributed Production Network." The agreement includes "all major rectangular and oval stadiums across Australia" (AFR, 5/29).