Live Streaming

Here is how the work lines up. Live streaming in Canada draws on the same broadcast lineage that powers CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV Bell Media, Global, Citytv and the TVA/Noovo French-language networks — and our crews handle production through the NewTek TriCaster TC2 Elite and TC Mini 4K, Blackmagic ATEM Constellation 8K and Constellation 4K switchers, and the LiveU Solo Pro and LU800 bonded encoders that festival and corporate accounts demand.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Bonded cellular runs on Rogers, Bell, Telus and Videotron 5G SA networks across all major venues, with fibre uplinks at Rogers Centre Toronto, Scotiabank Arena, BC Place and Rogers Arena Vancouver, Bell Centre Montreal, Saddledome Calgary, Rogers Place Edmonton and Bell MTS Place Winnipeg pre-provisioned through the venue tech departments — and Starlink Roam and Hughes satellite redundancy for Banff, Whistler, Yukon Aurora retreats and Iqaluit Arctic shoots where terrestrial signal disappears.

Here is how the picture comes together. Multi-cam capture stacks Sony FX9, FX6 and PMW-300 with PTZ Optics 30X-NDI and Panasonic AW-UE150 PTZ heads, plus NDI-over-IP routing for clients who want web encoder plus broadcast feed plus IMAG screen feed running at once without losing latency on the floor.

Festival broadcast and corporate live events drive the calendar. TIFF in September fields red-carpet and Roy Thomson Hall premieres through Bell Media's CTV.ca platform and YouTube. Hot Docs in April and May runs through CBC Gem. The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema's streaming partners. The Calgary Stampede in July streams chuckwagon and rodeo through Sportsnet and CBC Sports. Just for Laughs Montreal in July goes out through TVA, Crave and YouTube with bilingual feeds. The Toronto Caribbean Carnival in August and Carnaval de Québec in February both run multi-platform streams.

Here is what we have to work with. CRTC broadcast spec applies to feeds delivered to Canadian linear channels — including SMPTE 2110 IP routing, Dolby E embedded audio, closed-captioning for English and French, and called video where needed — and Netflix Canada's Toronto office QC specs govern dailies-style live-to-VOD pipelines. Our coordinators handle ISED range planning for wireless cam and IFB, CRA-side withholding forms for visiting US directors, and IATSE 667 camera-op and 514/873/891 grip-lighting calls that CRTC and CPTC compliance demand on each broadcast-spec live show.