recent work | live event production
Tubi/Fox Sports and E!
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In conjunction with Fox Sports and Live Digital Entertainment, the first ever pregame red carpet show for a Super Bowl. A 2.5-hour live broadcast from the Superdome in New Orleans, airing on Tubi as a lead-in to the game.
Sample video here are two Season Refreshes, written, produced and VO’d by Matt for the show’s non-sports audience.
Full show on Tubi here
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The exclusive, live Met Gala red carpet show, hosted by Maria Taylor, Zanna Roberts Rassi, Elaine Welteroth and Yvonne Orji. Produced with Live Digital Entertainment.
Augmented Reality implementation produced in conjunction with CGLA Studios.
executive producer, director of live production
Atmosphere TV
2024 Emmy submission for Outstanding Digital Innovation
2024 Atmosphere Sports Sizzle
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In 2022, I was hired to build and launch Atmosphere TV’s original 24/7 streaming sports news and highlights channel, Atmosphere Sports. Atmosphere TV is the world's largest out-of-home streaming network for businesses, in over 65k venues and 20+ countries. Atmosphere Sports is the only sports channel designed and produced specifically for the out-of-home viewing experience.
Without anchors or sound, Atmosphere Sports was able to be both a medium-optimized ESPN alternative and an ideal second-screen experience for a public setting. News, highlights, live boxscores, live odds, social, trivia, history, UGC and much more packaged into a 24/7 stream.
We had to completely re-think what a sports network was and how you’d build all the pieces completely without any traditional production infrastructure. What we created was unlike anything else technologically in the space.
the challenge…
build a 24/7 streaming sports channel from scratch…with no talent, no studio, no cameras and no sound. and make it have utility and be entertaining for an audience consuming it in public.
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the process…
build a production team, establish a daily workflow, create repeatable segments, make highlights deals with leagues, build automated scoreboards, oversee engineering team build of custom CMS, refine and perfect consistent execution.
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the results…
secured rights deals with the NBA, MLB, MLS, the PGA and the USGA.
in 2.5 years, went from 0 to over 100k streamed hours/day.
daily reach of 1.2M people.
Yahoo Sports
original shows and series
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A weekly digital baseball show during the 2019 MLB season hosted by Hannah Keyser.
Concept: Being a bandwagon fan is good, every week Hannah picks a new MLB team that deserves to be cheered for and tells you why they are interesting.
Format: <10 min episodes, 1x/week, 3 segments each episode: main topic (team) + positive/negative news segment + short commentary monologue
23 episodes over 1 season, with finale at the 2019 World Series in Houston.
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A digital and social video series in partnership with the NBA over two season.
Concept: Asking NBA players who and what were the Greatest of All Time in different categories, then intercutting with highlights of their answers.
Format: ~5 min episodes, confessional-style media day interviews + highlights + panel-style editing = curated youtube compilation with more production value.
12 episodes over 2 seasons, averaged >20k views per episode on a channel that rarely topped 1k per video.
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An original concept live, streaming mock draft show ahead of the 2019 NFL Draft…bringing together Yahoo Sports’ NFL, CFB and Fantasy talent - Charles Robinson, Terez Paylor, Kimberley A. Martin, Pete Thamel, Pat Forde, Eric Edholm and Andy Behrens.
Concept: Each talent submits their own mock draft, we reveal the consensus picks to them and the audience live as if it was a real draft. They react, analyze and project forward each team and pick.
Format: Live studio show that feels like a faster version of the actual draft show, 2 min clock between each pick reveal, leveraging our CFB video rights for breakdowns, 90 min total runtime
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A comedy sports debate show hosted by stand-ups Andrew Santino and Sarah Tiana.
Concept: Sports-fan comedians face off each week in a scored sports debate show about sometimes real and sometimes not real prop bets in sports that week.
Format: 25 min. episodes, 7 topics/props per episode, 1:30 per debate, scored by a judge (on-cam producer/judge and/or guest), winner each episode.
21 episodes over 1 season.
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Original podcast and video interview series with NBA insider Chris Haynes. Guests over two seasons included Adam Silver, Jimmy Butler, Steve Kerr, Damian Lillard, John Wall, Ja Morant, Trae Young and a ton of other NBA stars.
Atmosphere Sports
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A gameified sports trivia series made as interstitials for Atmosphere Sports.
Concept: expand on our channel’s sports trivia with gameified segments a sports audience at bars and restaurants will love.
Format: ~2 min per episode, 1 quantitative category that’s topical/relevant, 5 h2h matchups, :10 per answer, end with an extra piece of info about each winner
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Daily trivia inbump/outbumps to supplement our news and highlights for an out-of-home audience.
Concept: playable, topical sports trivia that makes the audience smarter about what’s happening in sports.
Format: individual questions. and this 3-level “Rookie, Pro, All-Star” version. :10 per quetions. + fun fact.
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In partnership with Opta, VizRT and Flowics, we built, designed and engineered live, automated scoreboards, box scores, gamecasts and league leaders across all four major sports, the WNBA, MLS, the Premier League and NCAA football and basketball.
For live streaming, connected television, this is the only technology of its kind.
showrunner, producer
Fox Sports/FS1
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A weekly half-hour sports comedy and commentary show hosted by Katie Nolan.
70 half-hour weekly studio shows, 10 live hour-long shows on-site at Super Bowls 50 and 51 and multiple special episodes over three seasons.
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A weekly hour-long audio+video podcast hosted by Katie Nolan.
Concept: build a podcast studio and lean into video to make the podcast its own show. Interview the athletes, comedians and media friends that exist within the Garbage Time universe. Connect the tv show + podcast + social channels to create a comprehensive experience for Garbage Time fans.
68 episodes over 2 seasons.
producer
ESPN
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A live nightly sports commentary show hosted by Keith Olbermann on ESPN2.
434 shows over 2 seasons from Time Square Studios in NYC.
2014 Emmy Award Nominee - Outstanding Studio Show Daily
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An hour-long, live nightly sports and comedy show at Midnight on ESPNU. ESPN”s first attempt at putting a social-media forward sports show on one of their networks.
2013 Emmy Nomination for Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming
