As a global leader in the media services and broadcast solutions industry, NEP Group has built an extensive track record of reliability supporting the world’s biggest broadcast productions, showcasing our commitment to excellence in bringing large-scale sports and entertainment events to life for millions of people.

Working closely together as One NEP, collaborating with our experts around the world, NEP has delivered several high-profile events this summer.

From providing connected production solutions for the FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) 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 (EFG) for the Esports World Cup (“EWC”) in Riyadh, our teams are working together as One NEP across geographies and time zones, committed to the success of our clients.

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NEP and DAZN: Innovation Meets Efficiency for an Extraordinary Global Delivery of the Club World Cup

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In support of DAZN, NEP managed the Match Center operations for coverage of the Club World Cup from three NEP facilities spanning two continents, and supported the distributed and remote workflows for live commentary in different languages across Europe.

In total, NEP teams created 24 separate versions for all 63 matches, totaling 1,500+ derivatives of productions over 29 days, including the creation of live commentary in 24 languages. NEP’s support included:

• NEP Production Hub South Florida – Match Center operations
• NEP Dallas Datacenter – Acquired and managed all World Feed signals
• NEP Production Hub Hilversum – Network Operations Center and live commentary operations management
• All connected by a fully redundant, transcontinental, private 100G wave network
• Cut between pregame, halftime, postgame studio shows and game coverage
• Added in 14 different graphics and sponsorship elements per game, per territory
• Supported live commentary creation in multiple languages
• All managed for latency to deliver across multiple geographies, time-synched perfectly

We’re incredibly proud of the One NEP team around the world and our fantastic client, DAZN.

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NEP and Sunset+Vine Dive into World Aquatics with Host Broadcast Partnership

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Comprehensive live coverage of the World Aquatics Championship - Singapore 2025 took place this July and August, with NEP teams partnering with Sunset+Vine to deliver world feed coverage across six events at multiple venues.

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The 25-day event included six sport disciplines: Water Polo, Diving, Artistic Swimming, Swimming, Open Water Swimming and High Diving, all taking place across multiple venues where NEP supplied 68 cameras and 15 EVS replay equipment. Media services support included:

• Centralized Venue Production via the International Broadcast Center (IBC)
• Venue broadcast facilities and crews
• Specialty cameras including underwater cameras, drones, 4 Point systems and rail cameras
• Host broadcast and rightsholder commentary including IP codec services
• IBC installation, operation and management
• All venue to IBC contribution circuits
• Archive and logging services
• Daily highlights and alternate content creation
• Streaming services
• Production crews

With a crew of 360, including freelancers from six different countries, experts brought this 25-day event to life for viewers around the world.

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NEP Middle East and Creative Technology Unite to Power the Esports World Cup

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NEP Middle East media services teams used NEP’s TFC orchestration platform to power the Esports World Cup (EWC) held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Creative Technology - Middle East also powered the Esports World Cup Opening Ceremony and after show concerts.

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Together, teams around the world brought a spectacular showcase of innovation and world-class coverage to life for this event. During the main E-games, NEP provided host broadcast services across 4 venues with over 200 experts onsite, representing 34 nationalities and supporting the games with teams from 14 NEP locations.

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Planned in under 50 days, this large-scale and highly anticipated production of EWC will continue through August 24, with crews seamlessly delivering live coverage and content to fans globally.

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NEP is providing media services in support of client EFG, including:

• 148 1080p transmission paths delivering content to global audiences across major streaming and OTT platforms
• Turnkey-host broadcast facilities and services (crewing, logistics, production management and transportation)
• 120+ cameras
• NEP Specialty Capture and Luna Remote Systems UK providing 10 specialty camera systems
• 40 12-channel EVS XT-VIA replay servers
• Purpose-built ST2110 installation powered by NEP’s TFC orchestration platform
• NEP-designed fiber optic backbone connecting all venues and facilities to one central area with 3000 individual cores
• NEP MediaGrid NAS interfacing with client and third-party content exchange networks

In addition, Creative Technology Middle East was at the forefront of the EWC Opening Ceremony, providing stellar visuals with cutting-edge technology.

NEP is proud of our many collaborations working as one team around the globe to support the world’s most watched sports and entertainment events of the summer.

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