How remote production is changing who can work in sport TV

The latest episode of the Broadcast Sport Podcast sees speakers from IMG, Whisper Cymru and Gravity Media discuss how remote production is democratising sport broadcast. 

Carys Owens, managing director of Whisper Cymru, IMG’s SVP of tech and operations for studios, James Clement, and Gravity Media regional CEO Jamie Hindhaugh speak to Broadcast Sport editorial director Jake Bickerton at MPTS 2026 about how they have created remote production hubs that open up opportunities for people who wouldn’t be able to work in OB vehicles to still secure great jobs in live production. You can listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the Broadcast Sport Podcast on all major podcast platforms.

The discussion explains how remote production works, and how centralising production teams in easily accessible, locally located production hubs has democratised who can work in live television production. It also talks about the challenges of creating remote production hubs and how to overcome these and debates the future of remote production versus ‘traditional’ outside broadcasts.

This episode was recorded at MPTS 2026, which took place at Olympia London, 13-14 May. Find out more about the event, which had almost 14,000 attendees from across broadcast, production, post-production, VFX, content creators, tech companies and more, here. 

You can listen to all episodes of the Broadcast Sport Podcast below. You can also subscribe to the Broadcast Sport Podcast on all major podcast platforms.