The pandemic has suddenly created new requirements in media production, changed processes and helped new ideas to blossom. This was and is challenging, but very interesting. In less than a year, productions have emerged in areas that have little to do with classic broadcasting: Hybrid seminars, sports events with only online viewers, distributed radio talk shows, online meetings with elections, multi-day seminars over Zoom and LTE, trade show conferences with almost no on-site presenters, and parallel services from two churches simultaneously. Each event different, each a new challenge.
The presentation looks back at the months since May 2020 and describes experiences, challenges and possible solutions from Akamai to Zoom.
Christian Koch is a computer scientist and graduate of the Technical University of Ilmenau. With his software company, he is primarily active in the media sector (print, audio, media technology). Together with noxus.TV from Erfurt, he revived the topic of streaming for himself in 2020, after setting up the first streaming server for the student radio station Radiohsf at the TU Ilmenau in 1997.