Ivy league Sports with Imry Halevi

Imry Halevi, Associate Director of Athletics at Harvard University, has left an indelible mark on the world of sports broadcasting. His role in establishing the ‘Ivy League on ESPN’ network underscores his commitment to innovation. Halevi brings niche sports-sailing, rowing, skiing, and more-to the forefront, showcasing their unique stories and athletes.
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00:00 Intro
23:49 What are your thoughts on the future of remote control rooms and remote technical directing?
25:40 What has your experience been with augmenting your permanent staff with student workers? Do you draw from the communication/journalism department or from across the University as a whole?
28:02 How do you integrate educational curriculum into productions?
31:16 For the remote booth how do you configure this and stream to them with low latency?
33:28 How have you been able to solve challenges to tell the "Story" for some of your unprecedented coverages? Where do you derive inspiration?
Have there been any recent innovations to aid in capturing and displaying data for the audience?
36:15 Can you talk about that blackmagic setup for those smaller rooms?
40:19 What are the reasons that you have decided to standardize on JVC cameras? Are there any specific advantage or disadvantages for your usecase.
41:28 When are you planning to move some of your production to the virtual control room in the cloud?
42:20 What are your thoughts on high frame rates for sports? Say 120fps at 4K. Is that the future for that "feels like you're there" feeling?
46:40 What do you think of sudden success of the WNBA and the technical infrastructure for game coverage and post game press conferences?
47:51 Have you thought of adding immersive elements (4K/HDR, AR/XR overlays, etc) to your coverage?
48:46 How do manage onboarding new production help bringing them up to speed with procedures and best practices of your productions? Documentation, shadowing trainers, watching film, etc.?
51:05 When do you cover a sport with a single high resolution wide angle shot verses coverage with multiple angles?
53:13 How do you handle relations with Harvard IT? Do you control your own network infrastructure for Dante/NDI, or do you rely on central campus IT?
56:42 What has been the greatest failure you learned the most from?
58:13 How often are your looks and assets updated and reviewed? For our sports division it is Annual
59:55 Ever thought of packaging those training documents for smaller productions to learn eg ESPN examples of shots , where bugs will be on screen, etc. Harvard biz school creates learning courses, why couldnt the production team