In this episode of the Broadcast Tech Talks Podcast, senior reporter Max Miller speaks to Forever Audio’s senior sound engineer Alistair Bolt and ADR manager Gabriel Dutru about the present and future of ADR. Delving into the best techniques for the area, the pair speak about how to work with actors, directors, and producers, as well as how to prep…

The Revolutionising Post-Production podcast sees industry experts delve into the cutting-edge technologies shaping the landscape of post-production in 2024 and beyond. From GenAI/AI-driven tools to immersive virtual reality experiences, the panel explore how these innovations are transforming content creation, enhancing efficiency, and pushing the …

Tim Burgess talks to Broadcast Tech editorial director Jake Bickerton about the development of Tim's Listening Party, from Twitter/X to an Absolute Radio show to a hit podcast series. Tim also covers the influence of AI in music, and reveals he's recorded a song he asked ChatGPT to write in the style of The Charlatans. Find out more in this great e…

Broadcast Tech editorial director Jake Bickerton talks to president of Picture Shop, Cara Shepherd, Racoon founder David ‘Klaf’ Klafkowski and director of post production and partnership at Sky, Adam Downey, about the major issues affecting post-production right now. The discussion covers the ongoing impact of the recent writers’ and actors’ strike…

Cyrus Mewawalla, head of thematic intelligence at GlobalData explains what the future looks like for GenAI and how it won't take as long as you might imagine for AI to present with 100% accuracy, to be a sentient being with a conscience that's at least as intelligent as a human being. And that's when the future of the human race could be under thre…

This podcast is a recording of a speaker session from the AI Creative Summit, held at BFI Southbank, London, in November. The session, called Generative AI & the Art of Storytelling, looks at where Artificial Intelligence can push the boundaries of storytelling; how it disrupts traditional methods of conveying a narrative; and how the industry migh…

The Business of AI: Tools of the Trade - Where Artificial Intelligence Can Make a Real Difference Discover how much of a game-changer AI and machine learning is, and how it's benefitting broadcast businesses. Find out how the industry is looking to adapt, what technologies and AI tools have already been adopted, and how to keep on top of innovative…

In the first episode of the new series of the Broadcast Tech Talks Podcast, Jake Bickerton talks to Trevor Back from Speechmatics and Mira Pelovska from Broadteam about large language models and the future of multilingual automatic speech recognition. The focus of the episode is about how AI-driven speech-to-text engines can more accurately and mor…

Airspeeder head of media Stephen Sidlo joins Base Media Cloud CEO Ben Foakes to talk to Broadcast Tech & Sport Group editorial director Jake Bickerton about how they are capturing and handling broadcast and a host of digital content during the inaugural season of Airspeeder flying car races. Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for flying …

TikTok head of UK media partnerships, Normanno Pisani and BBC Studios VP commercial, digital, Matt Ford talk to Broadcast Tech & Sport Group editorial director, Jake Bickerton, about how BBC Studios is bringing high-profile properties, including Top Gear, Eastenders and Doctor Who to the TikTok platform. Pisani and Ford discuss how they have been w…

Outside broadcasts, post-production and studios provider Timeline CEO Dan McDonnell and head of operations Dave Harnett talk to Broadcast Tech reporter Max Miller about the company's recent expansion in Ealing. It has opened a 9,700 sq ft broadcast facility specifically designed for remote productions, and including a 2,000 sq ft virtual studio spa…

Podcast with Jet Omoshebi, senior colourist at Goldcrest and Natascha Cadle, co-founder, Envy for IWD 2022. Omoshebi and Cadle talk about gender representation in the different areas of the post-production industry, to mark International Women’s Day 2022. The podcast discusses what can and is being done to encourage more women to pursue careers in …

Virtual production experts Final Pixel join Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton to provide invaluable insight into the burgeoning world of virtual production. Final Pixel's Monica Hinden, Chris McKenna and Michael McKenna talk in-depth about what virtual production offers producers; the long list of advantages for filmmaking in an LED Volume stage…

Fadi Radi, director of creative at Al Arabiya News Channel, talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how an ambitious mix of state-of-the-art virtual studios and virtual production sets are being used to visualise the week's biggest news stories. Every week, Al Arabiya creates a new eye-catching virtual set, immersing the viewer in a vir…

Gareth Capon, CEO of 'video production, editing and publishing in the cloud' platform Grabyo talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how the sports production sector is transitioning to cloud-based working. Capon talks about how Grabyo evolved from a sole focus on live video clipping to full-scale live production in the cloud, with its …

Cara Kotschy, the former managing director of leading post-production house Fifty Fifty talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about her decision to quit her role last year and how she’s been busy creating a new model for the post-production house of the future. Kotschy was only 28-years old when she became MD of current Broadcast Post-Produ…

Sky Sports director of cricket Bryan Henderson talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the launch of The Hundred cricket tournament, which begins next month. The Hundred aims to bring a new audience to cricket with simple-to-understand rules, fast-paced game play and building the format around an entertainment-first approach. Henderson…

Ron Chakraborty, lead executive, major events at BBC Sport talks to Broadcast Tech and Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the BBC's new virtual studio at the club, which will be its main presentation space at Wimbledon 2021. He also talks about Covid-19 enforced changes to the broadcaster's camera positions as well as its production setup …

BT Sport COO, Jamie Hindhaugh and BT Sport director of mobile strategy, Matt Stagg talk to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the broadcaster's Innovate 21 competition. Innovate 21 is the latest in a series of large-scale competitions run by BT Sport seeking ideas for forward-thinking new sports broadcast experiences. The previous incarnat…

Mike Cronk, vice president of advanced technology for Grass Valley talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how to make the transition to the cloud as straightforward and cost-effective as possible for media companies. The bandwidth and technical requirements for media companies has made the move to cloud-based working more challenging t…

David Ross, CEO of Ross Video, talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how Ross Video has addressed the many challenges of the pandemic. The Canadian company offers a plethora of products and services in more than 100 countries that are used by television networks, sports teams and stadiums, esports producers, live events and production…

Jamie Hindhaugh, COO at BT Sport and Sam Kemp, marketing technology director at EE join Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton to talk about an innovative new set of features on the BT Sport app called the Match Day Experience. It's a collection of complementary tools that enhance live matches with a series of immersive features. These include AR ins…

Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton talks with Daniel New, operations manager, BBC Global News; Byron Wijayawardena, strategic development manager, UK and Ireland, Adobe; and Ben Foakes, founder, Base Media Cloud, about how to create virtualised Adobe editing workstations to enable news editors to work from any location.…

BBC Breakfast editor Richard 'Fredi' Frediani has been in his role for a year. And what a year it's been. It's fair to say coping with the pandemic and its impact on the 20 year old BBC show has been a key challenge he wasn't predicting when he took up the role. The programme is famously built around the red sofa, with guests dropping into the stud…

This episode of Broadcast Tech Talks is with Greg Rochford, IT manager at Little Dot Studios and Michael Clayton, sales account executive at BASE Media Cloud. They talk with Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how they worked together to transition Little Dot Studios to the cloud. It's a journey that began five years ago, and has paid divide…

Sunset+Vine chairman Jeff Foulser talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the sports production company's successful bid to become the host broadcaster of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. Sunset+Vine will produce more than 2,000 hours of coverage from the games; a 12-part documentary series leading up to the games; and covera…

Jigsaw 24 head of audio Matt Ward is joined by pro audio consultant Saxon on this Broadcast Tech Talks recording with Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton. Together, they talk about the current trends in audio post-production, including a rapid move to enable remote audio post-production, including ADR/voiceover recording remotely, and making Dolby…

Formula 1 global head, digital media and licensing, Frank Arthofer talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the F1 Virtual GP series, which replaced the real grand prix races during lockdown. It involved 11 x F1 drivers and high-profile celebs racing head-to-head on virtual versions of real F1 grand prix circuits. The series received im…

Ingrid Silver, partner, Entertainment and Media Industry Group at global law firm Reed Smith, talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the 'gradual return' of sports to our screens, following Government guidance that enables different sports and events to resume over the coming months. Silver also discusses the legal side for sports bro…

Ron Chakraborty, executive editor, major events at BBC Sport talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about the BBC's plans for Wimbledon 2020 following the cancellation of the tournament due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than live tennis from Wimbledon, the BBC has lined up a varied mix of archive tennis content during what would have bee…

Melanie Jones, managing director, Manchester Studios, talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about her role in bringing fully-equipped high-end TV studios back to Manchester City Centre. Manchester Studios is on the site of the former Granada Studios facility (famously home to many classic LE shows as well as Coronation Street), and is utili…

Adam Heyhurst is former head of events at the BBC and now heads up the broadcast operations of marketing agency Amplify. While at the BBC he set up the broadcast infrastructure for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, which he talks about in detail during this conversation with Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton. His passion for live streaming over pre-rec…

Defected Records chief business officer James Kirkham talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the dance label's hugely popular weekly Virtual Festivals, which kicked off as soon as the UK went into lockdown. The 12-hour live streamed events, which went out on a plethora of social media platforms every Friday night, brought in an audienc…

Senior colourist Paul Ensby began his career in 1990, following his father and grandfather's footsteps into the film lab. He started as a 35mm laboratory feature timer and moved to digital grading in 2001. Since then, Ensby has notched up an impressive credit list, including Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E, As…

With TV studios on lockdown, Eurosport presenter Orla Chennaoui turned to Zoom to film interviews with a who's who of British athletics for Eurosport's re-runs of the London 2012 Olympics next week (24 May-31 May). Her interviews, with the likes of Mo Farah, Adam Peaty, Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Greg Rutherford and Bradley Wiggins, were all rec…

Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton talks to freelance lightning cameraman Graham Howe about what he’s doing to keep busy during lockdown. With the Covid-19 pandemic cancelling almost all his future bookings, Graham decided to make the most of his new-found free time to learn new skills that would be useful for his job. So, he’s learned how to li…

Sebastian Gray, co-founder and SVP of football content platform Dugout talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about what the company does, how it does it, and the growth in demand for previously undiscovered archive football clips. Dugout is co-owned by 10 world-leading football clubs (including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liv…

Mark Benson, CEO of Academy Award winning VFX house/creative studio, MPC, talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the changing needs of commercials producers during lockdown. With Covid-19 severely limiting options for live shoots and with the tone of advertising messages necessarily adjusted to be appropriate for the global circumstanc…

Gorilla TV managing director Rich Moss and Jigsaw24 sales director Rupert Watson join Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton for a chat through the tech enabling post-production houses to transition overnight from office-based to cloud-based remote home working. The companies work together at the cutting edge of post-production, with Gorilla having a…

Blast Premier esports CEO Robbie Douek talks to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about the appeal of esports – what draws fans to the games, and how esports can capitalise on the cancellation of live conventional sports. Blast Premier runs a year-long series of tournaments that are typically held in huge arenas with thousands of fans watching th…

BT Sport chief operating officer Jamie Hindhaugh explains how the broadcaster has created a 'virtual BT Sport studio', taking 400 people out of its physical studios in Stratford and replacing the studios with decentralised production to enable home working. With the system up and running, BT Sport is able to continue to broadcast presenter-led live…

Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker superstar and Eurosport pundit joins Eurosport UK senior director of production and broadcast Jamie Steward to discuss the snooker content Eurosport is rolling out to replace the postponed World Snooker Championship. It includes exclusive vodcasts from O'Sullivan and fellow snooker players, re-runs of classic matches and …

In this revealing and insightful interview, LADbible Group's head of programming, Ben Powell-Jones talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the content his team is creating for the world-leading social media group. Powell-Jones discusses the innovative use of data by the LADbible Group to determine success and to influence future edits a…

Renowned colourist Jet Omoshebi (senior colourist at Goldcrest) talks with Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about working in a near empty Soho facility during the coronavirus pandemic, and about how the crisis could lead to long-lasting changes in the post-production industry, and TV production in general.…

BBC presenter Gavin Ramjaun talks with Broadcast Sport and Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how his role has changed during the coronavirus pandemic. He also talks about his men's health and positivity podcast Manzilla and how as a tech novice he managed to set up his own recording studio. Ramjaun also offers his own words of wisdom on ho…

Football statistician, broadcaster and author Duncan Alexander talks to Broadcast Sport and Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about how data never fails to unearth new stories from the football archives; how Stats Perform is ramping up its engagement with football fans through its immensely popular OptaJoe twitter account, during the coronavirus…

Grant Phillips, executive producer and director at Sunset+Vine talks to Broadcast Tech/Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about how weekly BT Sport series Scottish Football Extra has morphed into Scottish Football Extra From Home during the coronavirus outbreak. The series is being produced remotely, with content captured on mobile phones, sent to…

In this short (10-minute) podcast, Broadcast Tech magazine editor Jake Bickerton talks with Derek Moore, CEO of visual effects house Coffee & TV, about the processes the company has undertaken to cope with the impact of coronavirus. Moore explains how Coffee & TV had to quickly transition from most of its staff being based at its central London off…