They contain equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and are built to support comprehensive productions entailing live video streaming, as well as video board productions and coaches’ scouting films. Our larger productions (Football, Basketball, Ice Hockey and Lacrosse) use control rooms based around large-scale video switchers and routers. That seems like a large production! What kind of set up do you have? A few of our productions get broadcast elsewhere, such as ESPN3 and other online platforms. We broadcast most of our productions to the newly launched “Ivy League Digital Network”, a website that hosts the video streams from all eight Ivy League schools.
We stream our games online to allow parents of student-athletes, and other fans of Harvard, to follow our teams and our players when they cannot attend games in person. I manage all the video streams for Harvard University’s Department of Athletics, with its 42 Division I teams. What are your livestreams all about? Who watches them, and how do they access them? From the first moment I stepped into that brand new control room, I knew I had found my passion. The university had just opened a new hockey arena, and they were looking for someone to help create content for their new video board, and operate some of the technical equipment during games and events. I got into it when I was a student at Boston University. I’ve been in the video production industry for 10 years. How long have you been livestreaming and how did you get into the industry? Thanks for taking the time to speak with us Imry! Let’s begin with the basics. We spent some time speaking with him about his role as Director of Multimedia & Production at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Halevi’s knowledge of streaming with Wirecast and his passion for his work are both apparent though his tweets. Thanks to Twitter, we have been following Imry Halevi for quite a while. It also allows us to find, and follow, some pretty amazing people. We can instantaneously communicate with our customers and community to provide support, news and product tips and tricks. Social media is a very powerful tool for us here at Telestream.