Rolling In It
August 2020
August 2020
dock10 deliver remote gallery solution for FA Cup Final
dock10 have delivered the FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea with a remote gallery solution.
The system was first used during the fourth round of the FA Cup for BBC Sport back in February 2020 and proved to be a successful demonstration of the remote gallery technology.
With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing a new urgency to remote production solutions, it has been used and further refined at every round since. For the Final, the remote gallery enabled BBC Sport's production team to be based in a gallery at dock10 in Media City, Salford, and a reduced amount of crew and kit sent on location to the match that took place at a socially-distanced Wembley Stadium.
Andy Waters, Head of Studios at dock10, said: "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated new workflows right across the broadcast industry. We have spent a couple of years now testing and developing a new solution that would change the way sport is delivered to our screens. When it was announced that football could return to television, we knew that we had already successfully delivered a safe remote solution for the FA Cup and could roll this out to a wide range of sporting events. It was a real honour to deliver the FA Cup Final".
