Record business expansion of Broadcast Management Group is driving fresh initiatives to improve production processes. To support its managed services and live production customers, the business has established the first Cloud Network Operations Center in Washington, D.C
Washington, May 20, 2025/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Group for Broadcast Management Constructs First Cloud Network Operations Center
The record business expansion of Broadcast Management Group (BMG) is inspiring fresh initiatives to improve production processes. To serve its managed services and live production customers, the business has developed the first Cloud Network Operations Center in Washington, D.C.
“Development of the first cloud Network Operations Center excites me greatly as our company marks its 20th year of existence. Todd Mason, Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Management Group, remarked, “this development keeps us dedicated to provide the best quality production services.”
BMG designed and constructed a fleet of REMI mobile units as well as the first Cloud Broadcast Center in March 2021 The company has seen fast acceptance of its business model by the market as it keeps improving its model and leading in centralized technology and distributed production teams. “Many broadcast equipment manufacturers are switching to a SaaS business model, which makes owning and running production facilities significantly more difficult for most consumers of production services. For an increasing number of customers, leveraging a Cloud Network Operations Center where you can expand with demand makes more sense,” said Dave Weiler, SVP of Consulting and Packaging.
BMG started refurbishing a brand-new Washington, D.C. building in August 2024 Administrative offices, an insert studio, technical facilities space, storage for event production equipment, systems integration construct space, and mobile unit parking make up the complex. Technology for its data center, master control, media asset management, transmissions, insert studio, post-production, video shading, and video and audio control rooms has been started to be installed. This phase should be finished by the end of July. The facility offers 1080P HDR and 5.1 surround audio; yet, its infrastructure has been built to move to a full 4K capability as demand justifies. Connected to BMG Spoke facilities in New York City and Las Vegas, this facility allows local talent hiring for audio mixing, playback, direction, producing, graphics, and prompting. Furthermore connected to the NOC are client facilities scattered over the nation. In April 2025 the firm started live broadcasting from the NOC.
“We are pleased to announce that we have made several significant technical decisions,” stated Sean Wybourn, Chief Technology Officer, Broadcast Management Group. “Our system will revolve on an Evetz EQX router. We can populate cards for SDI, 2110, and 4 K from this 1100X1100 frame. Initially capable of 32 separate multiviews, our Multiviewer will be connected into the Evertz Router. Along with Grass Valley LDX 135 Native IP cameras, which provide great sensitivity for flexible, high-quality production in any situation, we also selected fully loaded Grass Valley K-Frame switchers to handle two main control rooms, each furnished with Kayenne panels. These new cameras will complement our current Grass Valley video fleet so that we may maximize our remote workflow from mobile trucks to the NOC. There will be a fourth control room switter called TBD and a Ross Acuity 4 ME switcher in one other control room. Wybourn went on, “We have selected the Grass Valley AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform), a virtualized, open media production platform enabling seamless, scalable, high-performance workflows across live production, content management, automation, and distribution.” We really value what Grass Valley has accomplished in developing AMPP, which fits very nicely with our company strategy. Zero Density is our choice for virtual set production. From uplink/downlink to LiveU, TVU, Haivision, NDI, LTN, Harmonic, Zixi, and SRT BMG will provide our clients any transmission path they require. We have choose LiveU LU 810 and 4,000’s configured for 1080P HDR and ultra low latency for the link between our mobile units and our Network Operations Center.
“Development of the first cloud Network Operations Center excites me greatly as our company marks its 20th year of existence. Todd Mason, Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Management Group, remarked, “this development keeps us committed to provide the best quality production services.” “Our cloud infrastructure enables our clients to lower their capital expenditures, scale-up and down as business demands, accelerate speed to market, lower carbon footprint, tap into the best creative and technical talent regardless of location, and lower production costs while enhancing quality.” Ideal customers to take advantage of our technological and staffing systems are broadcast networks, OTT networks, fast channels, Fortune 500 organizations, and government agencies.
Steven Cotliar, Vice President of Global Partnerships, said “in our next phase, we will build two large broadcast studios with green rooms, make-up rooms, and newsrooms for producing teams.” Designed especially for daily and weekly live and live-to-tape broadcasts, these studio facilities will be the biggest independent broadcast stations in the Mid-Atlantic area.
Full-service worldwide broadcast media organization Broadcast Management Group offers networks, film companies, agencies, and businesses a range of managed services. The business also offers large-scale news, sports, music, entertainment, event live production services. Leveraged by its managed services clients and live events, BMG runs a proprietary cloud Network Operations Center (BMG Cloud ControlTM). From its East Coast and West Coast bases, BMG provides broadcast and event technology including mobile units, staging, lighting, and sound equipment. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York City, and BMG produced 1,900 shows and 2,500 hours of live content in 2024 including professional and NCAA sports, concerts, news, entertainment, and corporate events.
Media Contact
Suzanne Kennedy, Broadcast Management Group, 1 (202)-345-6724, skennedy@broadcastmgmt.com, www.broadcastmgmt.com
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