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15/09/2026

Another cracking weekend, this time at Reminisce Festival with the team from oXyFire Media.

We delivered the full camera and video package on the Bounceback Arena, producing the stage's live output on site and sending it back over fibre to the main control room, where it was mixed into the wider Reminisce arena stream.

The kit list on the day:
• 24ft jib
• 3 cameras at FOH
• 6 cameras on and around the stage
• 1 RF camera for pit and crowd work

3 operated positions, 4 PTZs, one stage, and zero drama. Huge credit to the crew who made it look easy, and another great collaboration with oXyFire Media. Onto the next one!

08/09/2026

Streaming outdoors brings extra challenges: weather, power access, and connectivity all need careful planning.

With the right setup and redundancy in place, outdoor live streams can be just as reliable and professional as indoor broadcasts.

Learn more here - https://thedwmedia.co.uk/reliable-live-streaming-outdoor-events/

03/09/2026

Live production is where planning, technology, and teamwork come together in real time.

From IMAG and multi-camera coverage to live switching and graphics, every element needs to work seamlessly while the event is happening.

There’s no pause button, which is why experience matters.

02/09/2026

We have started on Paul Smith's
HAPPY UK tour with UK Events Group Ltd!

It is his biggest run yet, taking in the UK, Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

On a comedy tour the audience is half the show, so the cut has to be ready for something that was not in any running order, because it happens every single night and never twice the same way.

Same show, different room, night after night. That consistency is the actual product.

01/09/2026

Strong live productions aren’t built on the day.

They’re designed in advance, tested, and rehearsed so when the event starts, everything just works.

That preparation is what keeps shows calm behind the scenes and professional on screen.

27/08/2026

The Diaspora Calling made its UK debut at Milton Keynes National Bowl a couple of weeks back, with Ms Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean performing The Score in full.

We were there with Buzz Drones providing drone ops for the main stage.

Aerials at a bowl are worth the planning. It is one of the few UK sites where the shape of the venue is part of the story, and you only really see that from above. Getting it safely is the bit people do not see. Permissions, flight windows, crowd overflight rules and a plan that survives a running order moving around.

27/08/2026

We’re really looking forward to this one in collaboration with oXyFire Media 🔥

Join the live broadcast from 6:00pm for historic footage, the build-up to 2026 and live coverage from around the route before the full procession reaches the town-centre broadcast area.

26/08/2026

Live streaming is about more than just hitting “Go Live”.

It requires stable connectivity, clean audio, reliable power, and contingency planning so the stream stays live even if something changes.

That’s why we design live streams around the environment, not a one-size-fits-all setup.

25/08/2026

Symphonic Ibiza in Harrogate a last week. A 40 piece orchestra playing dance anthems outdoors, with Heather Small, Rebecca Ferguson and Alison Limerick on vocals, a DJ warm up and Vernon Kay bringing his Radio 2 Dance Sounds of the 90s show along as the support set.

We were there with the trailer, four PTZs and a FOH camera with an operator, cutting live on the night for Bristol-based Okoru Events.

Orchestral shows are a different cut to a band. Forty players means the interesting thing is constantly moving around the stage, and the PTZs earn their keep covering sections you would never get an operator into once the audience is in. The FOH camera holds the wide and the soloists, and everything else fills in around it.

A proper night. Big anthems, string section, Yorkshire sky. 🎶

20/08/2026

IMAG and recording at the British Airways Flight Ops Summer Fly-In a few weeks back. Scouting for Girls and The Hoosiers on the bill, outdoors, with air displays through the day.

One FOH operator, one RF operator, plus vision and graphics from us.

The air displays were an interesting challenge. They happen once, they happen fast, and the screens need to be on the aircraft before the crowd has finished looking up. So the RF camera is roaming and ready rather than parked, and whoever is cutting has to be watching the sky as well as the stage.

Then it swaps straight back to a band set, and the screens return to faces and guitars. Two completely different jobs, same afternoon, same four people, and we really enjoyed it!