To The Skies: How Collegiate Athletic Departments are Adding Live Drones to Their Game Broadcasts

Across all levels of sports broadcasting, live drones are delivering truly unique visuals and providing eye-catching images to integrate into live game coverage. Even collegiate athletic departments, tasked with producing their own live events for platforms like ESPN+, are finding ways on a tight budget to enhance their game coverage with these angles.

What technologies are needed to make the shot possible and, most importantly, what steps does one need to take to ensure drones are used safely – and legally? Byron Abt, Assistant Director of Athletics for GATA Productions at Georgia Southern University, Imry Halevi, Associate Director of Athletics – Content & Strategic Communications at Harvard University, and Doug Schantz, Senior Director, Field Production at CNN share examples of their work and break down their workflows in a panel conversation with SVG’s Director of Digital Brandon Costa.