Field And Remote Production’s Multiplying Options At NewsTECHForum

Low earth orbit satellites, 5G, LAN, WAN, internet gateways and other technologies offer new options for news operations chiefs looking to expand their connectivity tool chest while allowing reporters and videographers to shoot more stories and producers to reversion them for many media. How that’s coming together is the subject of a panel, Field and Remote Production’s Multiplying Options and the Quest for More Stories, at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum event on Dec. 13 at the New York Hilton.

Panelists are Scott Wilder, vice president field and production operations, Fox News Channel; Elizabeth Plyler, news operations manager, WPVI Philadelphia; Erik Smith, VP of news operations, Fox Television Stations; and Mike Savello, VP of sales, LiveU. TVNewsCheck Contributing Editor Glen Dickson will moderate the 3 p.m. discussion.

“The field and remote production capabilities put to the test during the pandemic have untethered reporters and videographers from their newsrooms as never before,” said TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp. “Scott, Elizabeth, Erik and Mike will unpack how, pragmatically, technology and news technologists are helping the effort to produce more content for more platforms while continuing to allow journalists to work from anywhere, including more adversarial conditions.”

NewsTECHForum’s theme for 2022 is Reimagining the News and How It’s Made, and panels also include Blowing Up the TV Newscast in Order To Save It; Building Tomorrow’s News Studio & Workflows; Reinventing News Presentation & Presenters in a Multimedia Ecosystem; Creating More Content for a Multimedia Audience; and New Frontiers in News Production. The keynote interview is Radical Moves: Inside CBC’s Reinvention of TV News. The event is co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit.

Register here for NewsTECHForum.