Quote from: mnagowskiDoes Team RPI get paid? Or are they student volunteers? I think that's the difference right there.
RPI TV doesn't make a dime for their hockey game filming; everyone involved in the past weekend's streaming operation is a student volunteering to stick around their first weekend of spring break. The club has been filming RPI hockey games for 5-6 years now and has developed a lot of pretty neat tools (like Andrew mentioned) to make it look as good as possible.
My limited interactions have been that Athletic Departments tend to partner with a video provider like Redcast/Sidearm, B2, or alike based on a sales pitch and the potential to earn a very small amount of revenue. Only afterward do they figure out exactly who's going to get stuck moving the camera. RPI TV approached it backwards: they've been filming hockey for a long time (regardless of if the Athletics Dept wants to stream it) and had gotten pretty good at it. This weekend they decided to try streaming it online to see how that worked out...
