
What Is Broadcast Automation?
Broadcast automation uses software to run production tasks — playout, graphics, clipping, tagging — that crews once did by hand.

Thoughts on AI and ML, sports broadcasting, and the future of automated content creation.

Computer vision in sports is AI that interprets video — finding the ball, players and events — to power tracking, highlights, stats and graphics.

Broadcast automation uses software to run production tasks — playout, graphics, clipping, tagging — that crews once did by hand.

AI is used in football for event detection, automatic highlights, player tracking, performance analysis and officiating support.

AI creates automatic sports highlights by detecting key match events, ranking them for editorial relevance, then assembling and delivering clips.

Working in live broadcast teaches you a useful kind of intolerance. You stop caring about theory if the workflow is awkward. You stop admiring features that nobody needs.

A lot of AI messaging in media is built around replacement. Fewer people. Less human involvement.

RISE did not start because I wanted to chase an AI trend. It started because I got tired of seeing good people lose time on the wrong tasks.

Not every change in live sports production matters equally. Some are noise. Some are incremental. A few genuinely reshape how work gets done.

Not every broadcast workflow is ready for automation. Some are too inconsistent

The question is not whether AI can save time somewhere in live sports production. It can. The real question is where the time savings are genuine rather than cosmetic.

People often assume the biggest broadcasters will lead every meaningful technology shift because they have the money, the profile, and the engineering depth. Sometimes that is true.

A lot of sports AI demos look impressive for the first two minutes.

This is one of the biggest misunderstandings in sports AI. People think once you can detect an event, you are close to solving highlights.

“Real-time” is one of the most abused phrases in sports technology. It sounds clean. It sounds decisive.

Sports production does not only lose time on giant failures. It loses time on friction

There is a lot of noise around AI replay and highlight tools. Most of it focuses on feature count, model names, or big claims about automation.

Why the Future of Sports Production Is Smaller Teams With Smarter Systems

Speed gets attention. Trust gets adoption. That is the part many AI conversations skip. In sports broadcasting, the real test of an AI system is not whether it can produce a flashy demo. It is whether a live production team can trust it...

In broadcast, 'real-time' isn't a marketing term — it's a hard technical requirement with specific latency budgets that determine whether your system is useful or not.

The market is growing, but production budgets aren't keeping pace. That gap is where AI-assisted broadcast tools become essential, not optional.

Generic computer vision works great on clean data. Real broadcast feeds — with overlays, replays, ad breaks, and camera cuts — are a different challenge entirely.

Fans want clips in seconds. The current production pipeline takes minutes to hours. Here's where the gap is — and what it would take to close it.

A behind-the-scenes walkthrough of live sports production — from 6am load-in to final whistle — and why so much of it is still done by hand.

Domain experience isn't just a nice-to-have — it changes what you build, how you build it, and what you refuse to promise.

AI-driven event detection isn't just about technology—it's about redefining how broadcasters analyse, produce, and deliver sports content, turning real-time coverage into highly personalised experiences tailored to their audience's prefe...

Welcome to the first post in a new series where we'll dive deep into the intersection of sport, technology, and innovation, exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionise the way we experience sports—both on and off the f...