PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 31, 2025--
NEP Group, the leading media services provider for sports and entertainment worldwide, announced today its latest innovations and technology investments supporting broadcasters, rightsholders, leagues and content creators around the world ahead of the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas.
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From connected production solutions and industry-leading mobile units to groundbreaking specialty capture technologies and a visionary TFC platform, NEP continues to redefine the future of live production.
“Innovation isn’t just a goal at NEP—it’s who we are,” said Mike Werteen, President of NEP Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer. “Whether it's delivering Netflix’s NFL Christmas Day broadcast across our connected facilities, supporting the launch of the new PGA TOUR Studios driven by our TFC technology, or delivering new high-speed specialty capture solutions to the NBA for their above-the-rim shots—our teams are building smarter, more flexible and more advanced solutions designed to meet the needs of our customers around the globe.”
Building Forward-Thinking Connected Solutions
NEP launched its first production hub over a decade ago and has continued to expand and evolve what is possible for connected facilities.
“We have grown our capability to seamlessly link client facilities, our production hubs, and venue sites around the world. This year, we’re adding large-scale production control rooms in our South Florida Production Hub and expanding our network operations center in Dallas. This is enabling us to connect our customers with a unique set of solutions delivered through multiple channels. In addition, signal acquisition and transmission, multi-language commentary and dynamic ad insertion—these are all solutions we offer,” Werteen said.
Continued Investment in Mobile Unit Innovations
NEP’s commitment to its roots continues, having launched seven new mobile units over the past 18 months, and additional mobile facilities coming online throughout 2025. These will range from large-scale, multi-trailer units to agile remote production-ready units.
“Mobile units are the heart of our business, and that isn’t changing. We launched several new trucks around the world recently and we’re excited to now offer a new IP-based truck to our customers in the Middle East. This pace will continue in the next 18 months with the launch of multiple next-generation IP trucks, enabled with TFC, debuting this fall to support the NBA on NBC,” Werteen said.
Specialty Capture Technology Covering Every Angle
NEP’s Specialty Capture team continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible with specialty cameras and RF technology through ongoing investments in 5G, 4K and AI technologies .
“Our specialty capture team is integrating the latest innovations to drive camera technology forward, in particular with AI,” Werteen said. “We have made great advancements with our AI-driven automated camera solutions after pioneering the use of this tech for tennis coverage. We’ve also successfully developed a new solution of automated camera tracking for hundreds of greyhound races in the U.K.”
New Innovations from NEP’s TFC Broadcast Platform
NEP has also made significant developments within its TFC platform. Designed to make IP/2110 fast, simple, and easy-to-use, TFC is an all-in-one solution for broadcast control, purpose-built SDN, real-time monitoring, and global 24/7 support, all combined into one unified platform accessed through a single intuitive user interface.
“We’re connecting, capturing and creating in ways that weren’t possible before, like in our use of TFC to deliver groundbreaking virtual workflows at a major sporting event in Paris last summer. We’re continuing to develop TFC and are excited to share these developments with our clients and the industry at this year’s NAB Show,” Werteen added.
“Our clients expect solutions that are fast, flexible, and future-ready—and we’re proud to deliver.”
Visit NEP Group at the NAB Show
NEP will have nearly 100 technical and commercial staff members onsite at NAB in Las Vegas (April 5-9). Staff will be available by appointment, and NEP’s talent acquisition team will be onsite to talk about exciting career opportunities for mobile unit engineers, engineer apprentices and more.
NEP’s presence at the 2025 NAB Show also includes expert panel appearances, featuring : Casper Choffat, SVP of Global Product, Justin Pohlman, Director of Solutions Architecture, John Guntenaar, CTO of NEP Europe, Dan Murphy, VP of Product Management, Dan Turk, CTO of NEP Americas, and Mike Werteen, President of NEP Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer.
For more information on connecting with NEP at NAB and our speaker appearances, visit NEP’s 2025 NAB Show page. Visit nepgroup.com to learn more about NEP’s full range of media services.
About NEP
NEP is the world’s most trusted media services partner in live sports and entertainment. With a worldwide network of experts, cutting-edge technology, and expansive portfolio of customer-driven, innovative solutions, we empower our customers to tell their stories in breakthrough ways.
Headquartered in the United States with operations in 25 countries, we’ve supported thousands of major productions and events on every continent with excellence and reliability. See how we bring content to life at nepgroup.com.
A production control room (PCR) in NEP's Production Hub South Florida, part of NEP's global network of connected facilities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had another medical exam on Tuesday, putting his health under renewed public scrutiny as he has worked to dismiss concerns over his age and stamina.
The 79-year-old president spent more than three hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House described as preventive medical and dental checkups. It was Trump's fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office for a second term, and it comes as he tries to project strength ahead of midterm elections that will test his sway with voters.
In a social media post after the visit, Trump said that he had just finished his “6 month physical” and that “Everything checked out PERFECTLY.”
For decades, administrations have released selected results from presidential physicals, offering the public a glimpse at the commander-in-chief’s health. But the results are filtered through the White House and must be approved by the president, raising questions about what the public does and doesn't get to see.
Trump, a Republican, turns 80 next month and was the oldest person elected U.S. president. His immediate predecessor, President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was 82 when he left office, dropping out of the 2024 presidential race because of widespread concerns he was too old for the job.
A Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted in April found that less than half of U.S. adults think Trump has the mental sharpness or physical health to serve effectively as president.
“I think concern for the president’s physical health is probably at an all-time high, and I think advanced physical age is the No. 1 concern,” said Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who served as a White House physician for more than a decade under Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
For a president of Trump’s age, a complete physical would be expected to include advanced heart testing, screening for common cancers and a cognitive assessment, along with basics like height, weight and blood pressure, Kuhlman said.
The White House has not disclosed what the visit entailed but expressed confidence in what it will show.
“President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises, and he remains in excellent health,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement.
In the weeks leading up to his visit, Trump has been saying he feels as good as he did five decades ago — even as he jokes about his fondness for fast food and his minimal exercise regimen. Yet he’s also sensitive to perceptions about his age, noting that he takes extra caution descending the steps from Air Force One to avoid headlines about a stumble.
There is no law requiring presidents to publicize their health records, and the degree of transparency has varied by administration. Trump’s past reports have been criticized for offering scant detail and providing statistics that some medical experts eyed with skepticism.
At public appearances, Trump is often seen wearing makeup to conceal bruising on his hands, which the White House attributes to handshaking and regular aspirin use. He has sometimes appeared drowsy during meetings and closed his eyes for long stretches, though he denies having fallen asleep.
Trump often boasts of having “aced” cognitive tests while frequently deriding Biden, who faced questions about his mental acuity. Biden and his aides pushed back aggressively against doubts raised about his fitness for office.
Some of Trump’s previous physicals have included the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, used to screen for dementia and cognitive impairment. His physicians reported a score of 30 out of 30 for him at 2018 and 2025 checkups.
Yet critics have pointed to Trump’s meandering speeches and sometimes bellicose rhetoric as evidence of cognitive decline.
Last month, a statement from more than 30 neurologists, psychiatrists and other medical experts — who acknowledged they’ve never examined him — said Trump was mentally unfit to serve and warned of an “increasingly dangerous decline” in his behavior based on what they called “objectively observable signs of serious medical concern.″
“Any so-called medical professionals engaging in armchair diagnosis or false speculation for political purposes are clearly breaking the Hippocratic Oath they’ve sworn to,” Ingle said.
Just like any other patient, presidents get to choose what’s disclosed about their health, said Sara Rosenthal, a bioethicist at the University of Kentucky who studies presidential health. Questions about transparency have become more acute as America elects aging presidents like Trump and Biden, she said.
“I think we can expect very little disclosure about the true health status of any president unless they’re in perfect health,” said Rosenthal, who has suggested an independent medical organization to review and report on the health of the president and those in the line of succession.
Trump's first medical report in his second term was released last April. In July, he was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins. Photographs have shown the president with swollen feet, ankles and calves, described by the White House as a symptom of chronic venous insufficiency leading to “mild swelling” in his lower legs.
Following his last publicly disclosed exam, described as a routine follow-up last October, Trump’s physician issued a one-page summary saying the president was in “exceptional health” without divulging many specific results.
The frequency of Trump's medical checkups is not uncommon for someone his age, according to S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois-Chicago, who has studied the health of past presidents. It's part of a strategy to catch problems while they’re still treatable, Olshansky said.
Olshansky says the public deserves to see more than White House medical summaries that “may be subject to editorial discretion.” Full, unredacted medical records should be made public, he said: “Nothing should be hidden.”
President Donald Trump departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - The left foot and swollen ankle of President Donald Trump are pictured as he sits with Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House, July 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Friday, May 15, 2026, at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump's right hand is seen as he speaks to the press after returning and stepping off Air Force One, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
CORRECTS DATE - President Donald Trump sits at the back of the presidential limousine as it drives outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from the White House, Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
