LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2025--
NEP Europe, the region’s leading media services provider for sports and entertainment and part of NEP Group, today announced the launch of new remote broadcast facilities supporting Sky Sports’ coverage of the English Premier League.
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The new units—named Nucleus 1 & 2 and Era 1 & 2, add to NEP Europe’s growing fleet of customer-driven IP facilities—are deployed to Premier League stadiums to provide a remote system supporting Sky’s UHD/HDR coverage.
The Nucleus units serve as the technical hubs for producing the high-level audio and video HDR output for Sky’s largest productions. The Era units were built with comfort and space in mind for engineering and talent teams, featuring a private production pod for Sky’s onsite team, separate from the main technical area.
NEP’s TFC broadcast orchestration platform, used on the biggest productions around the world, is integrated across each unit serving as the all-in-one platform tying together hardware and software from multiple vendors into one interface and simplifying the use of IP 2110. The non-expanding broadcast trucks remain compact in size and can quickly establish connectivity with Sky Studios.
The new remote facilities were designed and integrated by NEP working closely with Sky’s engineering and production teams. They debuted with the start of the 2025-26 Premier League campaign on 15 August in Liverpool, and this season marks NEP’s 25 th supporting Sky’s coverage of Premier League football.
“We’re incredibly proud of our decades-long partnership with Sky Sports and their coverage of the Premier League, as they bring all the excitement of professional football to audiences around the world,” said Lise Heidal, President of NEP Europe.
“We’re delighted to equip their production teams with new facilities featuring the very best broadcast technologies. This demonstrates our long-term investment in solutions and infrastructure providing our customers the tools they need to deliver for their audiences.”
Gordon Roxburgh, Head of Production Technology for Sky Sports, said:
“Our teams are thrilled with the next generation of bespoke remote facilities that NEP have built for Sky, off the back of our long-term Outside Broadcast partnership on Premier League football and remote production. These new UHD HDR remote production units and their IP technology platforms are set to deliver for years to come.”
Dafydd Rees, Head of Engineering & Technical Solutions Architecture for NEP UK, said:
“In collaboration with Sky Sports, we integrated the Nucleus 1 & 2 and Era 1 & 2 units with best-in-class technologies, led by our TFC broadcast control and networking solution which makes the use of IP 2110 fast and intuitive across a production site.
“What makes these new remote facilities truly unique is their layout. Remote production units are getting smaller and smaller, and the challenge is getting all of the equipment on board while also maximizing operating space for the people working in them. We’ve accomplished this by housing the equipment in the Nucleus units and the technical teams in the Era units. The Era units feature enhanced amenities including a quieter atmosphere and better temperature control. We’re very proud of what we accomplished together with Sky Sports, and we’re excited to see the facilities in action at Premier League stadiums across England.”
The Nucleus and Era units follow NEP Europe’s launch of Neo last year, a first-of-its-kind OB facility that can operate entirely on battery power supported by solar panels. Neo’s battery pack has significantly reduced the use of diesel generators for Sky’s coverage of the English Football League (EFL). For the 2025-26 EFL season, the majority of productions will run with stadium power supported by Neo’s battery pack. Like Nucleus and Era, Neo is also fully equipped with NEP’s TFC platform for managing IP in a broadcast environment.
In addition to the Premier League and EFL on Sky Sports, NEP Europe’s media services power many major productions in the region across sports, entertainment and news, including The Championships, Wimbledon, the Eurovision Song Contest, the NATO Summit, DAZN’s coverage of the Club World Cup, the Tour de France and more.
Visit nepgroup.com to learn more about NEP’s full range of media services and connected production solutions.
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NEP Europe's new outside broadcast facilities were built with comfort and space in mind for engineering and talent teams, featuring a private production pod for Sky’s onsite team, separate from the main technical area.
BEIRUT (AP) — President Donald Trump acknowledged criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy” in a phone call that involved expletives, saying he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon was holding back peace talks with Iran.
But even as the U.S. president conceded the tensions in an interview released Wednesday, he insisted that his relationship with Netanyahu was solid and that they connected, in part, because they are both “wartime” leaders.
“We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One.”
In an interview on the American business-news channel CNBC, Netanyahu responded that he and Trump sometimes have “tactical disagreements” but have “common goals” and “agree on the main things.”
“He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences,” the prime minister said.
The president's comments about the Monday call offered a sign of the growing pressure he faces to resolve the Iran war as higher energy prices and economic uncertainty threaten Republican prospects in the midterm elections and hamper global commerce.
Talks have dragged on for weeks as mediators seek to extend a fragile ceasefire into a more enduring truce. The negotiations are further strained by Israel’s broadening war with the Iranian-backed militia group in Lebanon. The conflicts have become increasingly intertwined as Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell the fighting in Lebanon.
Trump remained noncommittal about a timeline for settling the Iran conflict, saying the Strait of Hormuz might stay blocked through the Labor Day holiday on Sept. 7. He has insisted that Iran stop any efforts that could lead to a nuclear weapon and that the strait be reopened for shipments of oil and natural gas.
“I don’t know. I mean, I think it could be (closed through Labor Day), but I think it’s unlikely. I think that we’ll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly,” Trump said.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his late father, is “involved” in peace talks, Trump added.
“They have a lot of respect for him,” the president said in the interview.
Trump said that Khamenei is not doing well due to wounds sustained in an airstrike, but “they say he’s giving approval because that’s the way it has been for a long, long time." Khamenei's father was killed in an airstrike when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February.
Meanwhile in the Persian Gulf region, Kuwait briefly shut its main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones hit a passenger terminal building, killing one person and wounding dozens. It was the latest in the back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested the ceasefire.
The strike again brought home the risks to residents and travelers in Gulf countries that had considered themselves relative safe havens before the war, now in its fourth month.
The path toward a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah remained unclear as hostilities continued in Lebanon.
An Israeli strike Wednesday hit a car on a busy highway just south of Beirut, hours before the second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington were set to take place.
The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, and it was not immediately clear if the person targeted was killed.
Israel and Lebanon on Monday reached a U.S.-brokered agreement in which Israel would not strike Beirut's southern suburbs and Hezbollah would end its attacks on northern Israel.
The agreement was made hours after Israel announced that it was going to launch strikes across the sprawling urban neighborhoods near the Lebanese capital in what would have been the most intense strikes since a nominal ceasefire went into effect on April 17.
The State Department said progress was made during the first day of talks on Tuesday. Lebanon hopes to widen the scope of the ceasefire so it becomes comprehensive across the country. Israel wants to disarm Hezbollah immediately before the Israeli military ends its operations in Lebanon and withdraws its troops from dozens of villages and towns.
Not long after the strike on Khaldeh, the Israeli military said it intercepted what it called a hostile aircraft coming from southern Lebanon, but it did not immediately blame Hezbollah. Hezbollah has not claimed a cross-border attack since the agreement.
Israeli strikes over southern Lebanon continued, especially in and around the battered cities of Tyre and Nabatiyeh. Two overnight strikes near Tyre, a coastal city, killed four Syrians and two Palestinians.
Israel warned the Christian neighborhoods in Tyre that Hezbollah members were among them. Many Lebanese Shiite Muslims fled to those areas in recent days because they were spared from the aerial bombardment along the Mediterranean coast.
After the warning, the Lebanese army deployed to the Christian district of Tyre in an effort to prevent Israeli attacks there and to show that Hezbollah has no armed presence in the area.
Israel launched an invasion of southern Lebanon days after the latest war was sparked on March 2, when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets toward northern Israel in solidarity with Iran. Israeli troops have pushed deeper into Lebanon over the past week, as Hezbollah continues to claim rocket and drone attacks.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has killed 3,468 people in Lebanon and displaced 1.2 million people. According to Netanyahu’s office, at least 27 Israeli soldiers and a defense contractor have been killed in or near southern Lebanon. Two civilians have also been killed in northern Israel.
Many residents of southern Lebanon remained in villages near the hostilities or returned to areas where strikes occurred after evacuation warnings.
The Al-Abdallah family returned to their home in Marwanieyh, which they left because they thought the village was unsafe following earlier strikes. A day later, two rockets hit the home, bringing down the three-story building and killing six family members, said the brother of Hassan Al-Abdallah, who was killed.
Ahmed Al-Abdallah, 13, was thrown away from the building by the force of the blasts and was the only member of his family to survive. His uncle, Eissa Al-Abdallah, said the boy has two broken legs and shrapnel wounds all over his body.
“What good is talking now? They are gone, and nothing will bring them back,” the uncle told The Associated Press in a phone call Tuesday. “This land costs blood.”
Boak reported from Washington.
This version has been updated to correct that the Iran war began at the end of February, not March.
United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, second from left, is joined by third from left: State Department Chief of Staff Dan Holler, Sr., State Department Counselor and Director, Office of Policy Planning Michael A. Needham and United States Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, as they meet with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh, at the State Department, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Israeli troops gather on the border with Lebanon in northern Israel, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A nurse treats an injured man at the damaged Jabal Amel Hospital, following Monday's Israeli airstrike that was hit a nearby building, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
A man removes debris of a building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Rescue workers use an excavator, as they search for victims under the rubble of a building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, left, is joined by second from left: State Department Chief of Staff Dan Holler, Sr., State Department Counselor and Director, Office of Policy Planning Michael A. Needham and United States Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, as they meet with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh, at the State Department, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit Burj al-Shamali village near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
