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Why SimplyLive Flex is actually flexible: storage is a workflow feature “Flexible” is one of those words that gets overused in broadcast… until you hit day 3 of a tournament, the producer asks for another long-form supercut, and you realize your real bottleneck isn’t the UI — it’s time on disk. That’s why I love this simple thought: Flex is flexible because it can hold your show. Not 2 hours. Not “maybe 6 if we’re careful.” Hundreds of hours — depending on your storage config

In the fast-paced world of live broadcast, technology is shifting beneath our feet. We are moving from a hardware-centric industry to a software-defined one. As we navigate this transition, I have been reflecting deeply on what it means to be a true expert—and more importantly, a true educator—in 2025. As the founder of the University of Television, my primary loyalty is not to a specific logo or a manufacturer’s stock price. My loyalty is to the operator in the truck, the st

Riedel SimplyLive: the compact “all-in-one” live production idea that actually makes sense There’s a reason I keep circling back to Riedel SimplyLive when people ask me, “What’s genuinely different in live production right now?” In a world where we usually stack separate boxes for vision mixing, audio, graphics, replay, and (in many environments) VAR, SimplyLive is one of those rare systems that can bring multiple key roles together in a single 4U chassis — without turning th

I took a moment during the SailGP Grand Final in Abu Dhabi and thought: this is not just sport coverage — it’s an industrial-level live production machine running on water, in the air, and across an RF mesh that has to behave like a fiber backbone.   From the spectator side, it looks beautiful: foiling catamarans, perfect framing, dramatic angles, fast cuts. From the broadcast side, it’s almost absurd (in the best possible way): 1) The helicopter isn’t a “nice extra”. It’s a