TV3Riga · Tallinn · Vilnius
Pitch
The host director
cuts 24 cameras
Uplink
A booked circuit,
opened 20 min early
Space
Up 36,000 km
and back down
Decode
Descrambled
off the satellite
Router
Lands on a port
SDI IN-08
Sync
Frame-locked
to 1080i50
Voice
Off-tube commentary
mixed over the crowd
EELVENG
Graphics
Scorebug, names,
in each language
TV31–0
Gallery
The local director
cuts the show: studio,
replays, idents
Playout
Into the channel:
idents, breaks, continuity
Encode
Compressed into
the channel feed
Broadcast
Satellite, cable
and IPTV
Television
+8s
Package
Cut into four-second
chunks, many qualities
CDN
Copied out to
edge servers
Phone
+32s
JOIN IN LIVE
TAP ONEreads the feed and the clock,
a producer approves
TAP TWOthe phone already in
the viewer's hand
Everything between the two
belongs to TV3 and does not change
+0.0sSince the ball crossed the line