NEP Group soccer productions surpass 1,100 matches across North American leagues

The massive volume of matches managed by NEP Group demonstrates that centralized, software-defined infrastructure has moved from a niche efficiency play to the primary engine for professional sports broadcasting. By leveraging the NEP Platform and remote hubs, leagues like MLS and NWSL can maintain high-tier production standards across hundreds of matches without the linear cost of traditional onsite mobile units. This shift signals a broader industry transition where connectivity and data center capacity, rather than just truck counts, define a production partner's value. Watch for how NEP integrates AI and automated production tools into these IP workflows to further lower the barrier for secondary league tiers.

NEP Group has extended its centralized production model well beyond domestic soccer, positioning its Connected Solutions division and Total Facility Control platform as the backbone for major North American sports events. For the 2025 NWSL season, NEP Connected Solutions' South Florida facility handled remote productions for 190 world-feed matches and more than 60 additional local broadcasts, serving CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ION, and the league's NWSL+ direct-to-consumer platform simultaneously. The league worked with NEP to expand the South Florida facility with new control rooms, enhanced replay and audio capabilities, drawing on personnel across the broader NEP ecosystem. This multi-rightsholder model mirrors the approach NEP now applies to its 1,100-match soccer slate, where a single centralized hub feeds FOX Sports, Apple, and other distribution partners from shared IP infrastructure. The business case for NEP's centralized approach is reinforced by its selection for the highest-profile live events in American broadcasting. At Super Bowl LX in February 2026, NEP's TFC routing and control fabric underpinned a fully SMPTE ST 2110 compound-wide IP architecture for NBC Sports, allowing any signal to be accessed anywhere in the compound through a centralized routing layer rather than traditional truck-to-truck connections. NEP Supershooter 71 functioned as an ingest, distribution, and management hub for the entire site, connecting to NBC's domestic production trucks, the international compound, and world-feed operations via 100-gig and 400-gig IP links. Weeks later, NEP provided media services, mobile units, flypacks, and remote-operation support for NBC's coverage of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, deploying TFC-powered flypack systems with fully 1080p HDR workflows at the Milano Ice Skating Arena and the Duomo TV Tower broadcast hub. NEP Specialty Capture, the division formerly known as Fletcher, has become a key differentiator in the company's high-volume production strategy. At NBA All-Star 2026 in February, NEP deployed seven mobile units alongside specialty cameras including Antelope Nucleus 4K high-frame-rate systems and Proton POV cameras on micro robo heads, combining TFC orchestration with nearly three times the EVS replay systems of a standard NBA on NBC game. The Nucleus camera functions as both a continuous live feed and a replay source, reducing the need for dedicated replay operators. For NEP's soccer operations, this same Specialty Capture toolkit enables automated multi-angle coverage from remote hubs, directly supporting the cost efficiency required to scale beyond 1,100 matches across MLS, NWSL, and USL without proportional crew increases.