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The media operation has to keep up from the opening of competition through the closing ceremony, and then turn what it produced into something that lasts.",[17,21,22],{},"Most events at this scale handle their media operations with a patchwork: one tool for broadcast distribution, another for press access, a third for internal asset management. Each tool has a different login, and each archive decision lands months later, often with content that's already been lost track of.",[17,24,25],{},"With so much action and excitement captured in just two weeks, EPC faced a tremendous challenge: managing, organizing, and sharing terabytes of media content. This included managing thousands of files uploaded in a single day, hundreds of hours of video content, and an active user group of over 100 people all  while maintaining a hosted broadcast solution for viewers to tune in to.",[11,27,31,34,38,41],{"heading-html":28,"id":29,"num":30},"\u003Cspan class='accent'>One platform\u003C/span> for broadcast, press, and archive","story-section-2","02",[17,32,33],{},"The platform had to do work that's normally split across multiple tools:",[35,36],"story-checklist",{":items":37},"[\"Serve as a hosted broadcast hub during the event\",\"Function as a press portal for media organizations across Europe\",\"Hold a structured archive of every asset produced\",\"Carry a custom metadata system so tens of thousands of files stayed findable\",\"Integrate with the PR.co newsroom so press access could run through one public link\",\"Transition into a long-term archive after the event without a migration\"]",[17,39,40],{},"The result had to scale into a two-week intensive use window, then settle into a long-term archive without losing the through-line. The same platform that handled live broadcast had to be the one teams could come back to in three years.",[17,42,43],{},"MediaLab had one property that ruled out most alternatives: a single deployment could be configured as the working hub during the event and the archive afterward. It offered a single system covering the full lifecycle of the event's content.",[11,45,49,52,55,58],{"heading-html":46,"id":47,"num":48},"How the \u003Cspan class='accent'>rollout went\u003C/span>","story-section-3","03",[17,50,51],{},"Implementation was done in close collaboration with EPC ahead of the event. The MediaLab deployment was configured around EPC's specific shape: a clear folder structure to organize content as it came in, and a customized metadata system to keep individual files findable across what would eventually be tens of thousands of assets.",[17,53,54],{},"A PR.co newsroom integration sat alongside the platform, giving press a single public link to access event content as it became available, without separate credentials or additional vendor in the chain for journalists working to a deadline.",[17,56,57],{},"By the opening of competition, the platform was live. 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Thousands of files arriving each day, a hosted broadcast feed running through it, and a press operation across the continent waiting on access. EPC chose not to stitch broadcast, press, and archive across separate tools. Instead, they ran all three through MediaLab.","md",true,[],"/images/content/customers/para-story.1.3.png","Live Events",{},"/customer-stories/para-champions","A configured MediaLab deployment served as a hosted broadcast platform, press portal, and structured archive for the European Para Championships.\u003Cbr> \u003Cbr>Used by production teams, communications staff, and press across Europe during the event, it persisted as a long-term reference archive afterward.",[104,108,112,116],{"icon":105,"title":106,"desc":107},"upload","7+ Terabytes","of content uploaded",{"icon":109,"title":110,"desc":111},"share","130+","active users",{"icon":113,"title":114,"desc":115},"check-circle","~ 1000 hours","of processed video content",{"icon":117,"title":118,"desc":119},"eye","25,000+","files distributed and stored","BUILT ON MEDIALAB","IN PRODUCTION","The European Para Championships media hub"," ","European Para Championships","Niels van Boheemen, Head of Broadcast & Content, European Para Championships","MediaLab empowered us to archive and structure content for a multi-sport event, including media rights management and efficient distribution to press and broadcasters. A central hub for lasting content legacy.",[128,129,130,131],"The challenge","The decision","The implementation","The outcome",{"title":5,"description":94},{"loc":101},"European Para Championships (EPC), multi-sport para-athletics event series","2023","A configured MediaLab deployment serving as hosted broadcast hub, press portal (integrated with PR.co newsroom), and long-term archive in Azure Cold Storage.","The Netherlands","A two-week event producing content faster than any single-purpose tool could keep up with, across broadcast, press distribution, and post-event archive.","Two-week multi-sport event. 7+ TB of content uploaded, more than 1,000 hours of broadcast video, 25,000+ files distributed and stored, 130+ active users.","11-50 employees","customer-stories/para-champions","How European Para Championships \u003Cspan class='accent'>ran broadcast, press, and archiving\u003C/span> with MediaLab","https://info.medialab.app/share/embed/8mj48/65bf18ffdb469089e224e356ae710013b9ab784d9dd9981fe05c28b9b8b930b6?player_nolabels=1","Sustainable archiving \u003Cspan class='accent'>for the future\u003C/span>","05",[147,148,149],"For most major events, the working media platform ends with the closing ceremony, and what gets kept becomes someone else's problem in someone else's system.","EPC's setup runs the other way. The platform that handled broadcast and press during the championships is the same one teams log into three years later for a clip. Source files sit in Azure Cold Storage so long-term costs stay low, but they remain part of the same searchable archive.","Production teams may change between editions, and host cities may rotate. But the platform holding the event's history doesn't. For a series whose continuity would otherwise rest on which people stay, that's no small thing.","BkU1N3KdGYq8fJ3bcVbYy5OwZJPYsjfkIwrC1nDGuSI",1784272445609]