HILARY HOSIA
A local media team compromising National Telecommunications Authority, College of Marshall Islands’ Media Center, V7AB Radio, Marshall Islands Basketball Federation and the Marshall Islands Journal made sport history by streaming live coverage of the BOMI 18th Ralik Ratak Basketball Shootout championship games earlier this month.
This teamwork provided multiple cameras allowing engineers to pan from angle to angle — a first in RMI sport history.
The idea behind this improved coverage of the national basketball competition finals was to feed hundreds of Marshallese fans spread across the globe, whether in Ebeye, Guam, Hawaii, Arkansas or an oil rig substation off the coast of Russia — yes, we have viewers following from all sorts of locations.
To make the streaming possible, the following had to be done: team up with CMI Media Crew for their cameras and NTA for its control board, which would connect cameras from CMI into its system — and voila!
Even with CMI and NTA onboard, a missing link was needed: V7AB broadcaster to be linked into live feed so that viewers would hear William Ring’s catchy narration.
What followed was coverage that put RMI right there with Yap’s broadcast of the Micronesian Games basketball championship between RMI and Guam earlier this year. Not bad when 2022 Micronesian Games is right around the corner.
Photos: Hilary Hosia.
Read more about this in the October 19, 2018 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal.