As the first local radio station in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, WMBS has been keeping its local community informed of news, weather and local sports since 1937. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the station recognized that in-person spectators would be limited, and entered the world of video broadcasting in order to live stream local high school and college sports games to the community and beyond. In order to accomplish this, WMBS purchased a GY-HC500SPC CONNECTED CAM™ Camcorder from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation.

With 42 sports teams, the athletic department at Harvard University has one of the largest and most historied programs in the country. From football, basketball, hockey and rubgy, to skiing, swimming and rowing, among others, the school’s sporting events draw attention from spectators, alumni and professional scouts, alike. The university broadcasts approximately 300 live and recorded events in a typical year, the majority of which they now live stream on ESPN+, ESPN’s direct-to-consumer platform. The school also presents footage from its sports teams across its various social media channels, such as Facebook and YouTube.

The Ryan Seacrest Foundation recently opened a new “Seacrest Studio” at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, complete with state-of-the-art video and audio equipment. The gear installed at the studio includes KY-PZ100U PTZ cameras, an RM-LP100U IP PTZ Controller and a KM-IP Switcher, as well as a GY-HC500 CONNECTED CAM camcorder, from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation. JVC equipment has also been installed at existing Seacrest Studio locations in Dallas, Denver and Washington DC. These solutions help the foundation fulfill its mission of contributing positively to the healing process of children and their families through radio and TV programming.

A family run business for 75 years, Bozzuto’s Inc. is the leading family-owned total service wholesale distributor of food and household products to retailers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Bozzuto’s Inc. continually supports the communities it serves through its charitable arm, The Hometown Foundation Inc. The foundation hosts a variety of events at the Farmington Polo Club,  the company’s  80-acre property and multi-purpose facility located in Farmington, CT. To ensure a total event experience, Bozzuto’s also implements a wide array of live streamed and recorded video services for the events it hosts, made possible by the CONNECTED CAM™ system from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation.

Since 1986, Access Sacramento has been providing community members with the technology and guidance to produce local television programming and content for the greater Sacramento area. A public access station that operates two channels across three cable systems, Access Sacramento offers state-of-the-art equipment and tools through its TV studio, digital media lab and equipment loan program. Among these is a trio of GY-HC900 CONNECTED CAM^™ cameras from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation.

Social distancing guidelines have impacted everything from everyday life to television production and worship services. O’Fallon First United Methodist Church in Illinois has looked for alternate and creative approaches to reaching its congregation and has offered pre-recorded services and live-streamed worship for its parishioners. In doing so, the church chose to upgrade its camera solution to the 500 Series CONNECTED CAM™ handheld camcorder from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, for recording and streaming its worship services.

As manufacturers, dealers and installers, the team at ACE Sports knows their way around live sports video production. The company, which not only manufactures arena-sized video boards and scoreboards, also helps integrate the third-party equipment necessary to feed content to live audiences. Recognizing that top-of-the-line video boards need to be fed with high-end video, ACE Sports has appointed JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, as its standard brand of cameras and switchers.

Grace Community Church has provided reformed Baptist worship services to the Glen Rose, Texas community for more than 20 years. In light of the COVID pandemic, Grace Community recently began live streaming its Sunday service for the benefit of infirmed and elderly members. This was made possible through a pair of KY-PZ100 PTZ cameras and an RM-LP100 controller from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation.

JVCKENWOOD furthers its commitment to providing the video production industry with the highest quality streaming solutions in a complete, plug-and-play package with its latest CONNECTED CAM firmware update. Using the open source Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) technology, JVC adds Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Stream Identifier (ID) to its 500 Series and 900 Series CONNECTED CAM cameras. The new firmware reinforces JVC’s standing in the industry as the leading provider of high-quality end-to-end streaming-capable camera solutions.

The ProHD Studio 4000S, a self-contained, four-channel live streaming studio system from JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, has proven to be the right solution for the 48 Now Center digital studio at WAFF-TV. The Gray Television-owned NBC affiliate serving Huntsville, Ala., has deployed the ProHD Studio 4000S, complete with two robotic JVC KY-PZ100 pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) cameras and the company’s RM-LP100 PTZ camera controller to increase its ability to live stream original content and replays of its newscasts.