NEP Group has added two mobile production units to its U.S. fleet, with one aimed at large HDR sports events and the other built for REMI, or remote integrated production.
Supershooter 11 is the higher-end truck. NEP says it is built on a fully IP-based 1080p and HDR infrastructure and powered by the company’s TFC broadcast-control system. The unit debuted in April on golf coverage, is scheduled for a major international soccer tournament this summer and is expected to support NBA on NBC coverage.
Supershooter 65 is built around a different production problem: how to cover more live events without sending every part of the production team and technical stack to the venue. NEP says the unit is already supporting broadcasters including Turner Sports and Major League Soccer, with a REMI design intended to support distributed production workflows.
The split between the two trucks is the useful part of the announcement. Premium sports still need large mobile facilities with high-end routing, monitoring, control and HDR capability. At the same time, rights holders and broadcasters are looking for ways to make regular-season, regional and high-volume coverage more efficient by centralizing more production work away from the event site.
NEP says the launches are part of a wider fleet investment that includes HDR upgrades, more than 100 new Sony HDC-5500 cameras, new builds for customers including WWE and a plan to introduce multiple new mobile units each year while retiring older vehicles.
For live production teams, the direction is clear enough: the truck is not disappearing, but its job is changing. Some units are becoming premium IP/HDR hubs for major events, while others are being designed as field extensions of a more distributed production workflow.