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Celebrating a legacy of trust and innovation.
Throughout NEP's history, we've pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in live production and media technology, continuously evolving to meet the needs of our customers and their audiences. We think it's clear why our customers continue to turn to us as their trusted strategic partner:
- 40-year history of innovation developing many of the industry's "firsts"
- Proven track record of reliably delivering thousands of live events each year
- Perhaps most importantly, the skill, experience, and dedication of our people.
A strategic Partner
As the world’s leading media technology partner, NEP operates beyond traditional event services—we serve as an embedded strategic partner, designing and delivering innovative solutions and enterprise-grade, resilient infrastructurealigned with your long-term strategic vision.
Diversified & Financially Strong
NEP has evolved through many types of economic markets and trends. We are a diversified business offering a full range of services backed by leading private equity firms Carlyle and 26North Partners LP to support our growth.
Proven Delivery Worldwide
Bringing global scale with local precision and service, we've delivered thousands of major productions and events in more than 100 countries with customer-driven innovation, excellence, and reliability.
Employer of Choice
NEP employs more than 4,000 staff, with technical and operations roles accounting for nearly half. Our employees have a passion for what they do and they gain hands-on experience delivering premier events worldwide.
Our History
NEP marked its official beginning as "NEP Broadcasting" (later becoming "NEP Group") in 1986. What started as a single TV truck broadcasting Penn State University football games is now a diversified, global business.
From the beginning, our goal has been to deliver amazing live content for our customers, with a vision to be the leading global media solutions company. This remains our vision today.
NEP enters a joint venture with production services company TCS as Host Broadcasters for the Indianapolis Pan Am Games. NEP later acquires TCS with Deb Honkus and George Wensel of TCS joining Tom Shelburne to run NEP.
NEP moves its headquarters to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NEP's first truck under the new company structure, Supershooter 8, is built entirely in-house, spurring a reputation for excellence in systems and integration design.
Creative Technology Group (later acquired by NEP) delivers the first use of High Definition TV (HDTV) in the corporate meeting market to address the poor quality of U.S. and UK TV standards—7 years before a domestic HDTV system was offered in the U.S.
NEP acquires all assets from the NBC Sports remote operations and field shop, reflecting a new trend of networks outsourcing their remote production facilities and trucks.
Tragically, and suddenly, NEP loses Co-founder George Wensel.
NEP Group enters an intensive growth stage to expand its services and reach globally, acquiring companies over the next 12 years to form NEP’s broadcast and live events business units in the U.S. and UK.
NEP's U.S. mobile units business launches its comprehensive, hands-on U.S. Broadcast Engineer Apprentice Program to train the next generation of technical experts.
TV on Wheels: The Story of Remote Television Production by NEP CTO George Hoover and Jim Boston hits the bookstores.
The first extra-large HD mobile production unit designed for large-scale productions, NEP Supershooter 24, rolls out.
The company grows significantly during this period, especially in Australia & New Zealand and in Central, Northern and Southern Europe through acquisition.
In 2017, NEP acquired Creative Technology Group, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Middle East and Asia, to serve the global live events market.
Also in 2017, acquired Bexel, based in the U.S., to create NEP's robust equipment rental offering.
In 2018, the company acquired Fletcher Group and Broadcast Sports International, and one year later added Aerial Video Systems, to build what has become NEP's Specialty Capture business.
NEP delivers the first live 4K Cricket broadcast with a hybrid HD-4K solution for Star Sports India’s ICC Cricket World Cup coverage, in partnership with NEP Australia and BT.
Our first large-scale remote production hubs in Hilversum, The Netherlands and Oslo, Norway open, centralizing equipment and resources as a new way to increase efficiency, operate more sustainably, and expand the types of customers and locations we can serve.
NEP’s Live Events teams implement the first use of LED, with specially developed LED tiles designed to withstand a tennis ball hitting at over 100 miles per hour, to “wrap the court” in a Grand Slam Tennis tournament, the Australian Open. Today, this is a standard in many tennis events.
NEP Australia launches the world’s first ST2110 “Andrews Hubs” production hubs in Sydney, Australia to support scalable, redundant, and large scale events in remote locations.
Creative Technology Middle East is commissioned to build the largest interactive, immersive dome for the World Expo held at Al Wasl Dome in Dubai. The project wins numerous awards and recognition.
NEP acquires VISTA Worldlink, expanding NEP's remote production capabilities and ability to deliver connected solutions in the U.S. and worldwide.
NEP Australia partners with the Australia National Careers Institute to launch “Women in Broadcast”, a not-for-profit initiative brought to illuminate career pathways to for women within sports broadcast technology.
Martin Stewart begins his role as NEP Group CEO after serving as the company's CFO since joining in 2022.
Launched first virtualized cloud production "vOB" at scale, managed by the NEP TFC platform, to support the world's largest athletic competition held in Paris, with systems delivered to handle coverage at four venues.
NEP's Middle East & Asia region proudly launches the NEP India Academy, a comprehensive, 12-month learning and development program, with hands-on broadcast training, to prepare the next generation of engineers at NEP.
In the summer of 2025, One NEP teams deliver major international events, from providing connected production solutions for the FIFA Club World Cup in support of DAZN, to delivering the world feed of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, to serving as the main production partner for ESL FACEIT Group for the Esports World Cup in Riyadh.
NEP acquires Seven Production, significantly expanding its services and footprint in the Middle East.
NEP Europe introduces “Neo” the first outside broadcast truck of its kind with solar power backup capability.
NEP Group formally celebrates its 40th year in business as an independent media services, broadcast production and live events solutions company!
