04 June 2026
Live TV Chaos, Championship Parades, & The Future of Sports Broadcasting with Tim De Lay
#Storyteller - An Insider's Look Behind the Scenes Across Sports, Media and Entertainment
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What does it actually take to broadcast over 250 live events a year, including back-to-back championship parades with thousands of fans jamming cellular towers?
In this episode of Storyteller we sit down with Tim De Lay, Senior Director of Operations at Altitude Sports & Entertainment. Tim takes us behind the scenes of live sports production, sharing incredible career stories from his early days freezing as an endzone camera operator to driving a $750k satellite truck through mountain passes.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:36 - Cold Open: Wisconsin Rose Bowl Memories
3:55 - Two Truths, No Lies: Running Camera in a Snowstorm
6:16 - Stories from the Satellite Truck Era
9:41 - Pulling Off the Avs & Nuggets Championship Parades
14:38 - Dealing with Bonded Cellular & Tower Jamming Challenges
18:26 - The Altitude Sports Production Playbook (250+ Broadcasts a Year)
20:51 - Production Flexibility, Scaling Budgets, & Tiered Events
22:10 - The Intersection of Linear & Digital Broadcasting in 2026
25:02 - Innovating with Skycam & Altitude Plus Subscriber Growth
26:09 - The Streaming Playground: Testing, Analytics, and Learning to Fail
In this episode of Storyteller we sit down with Tim De Lay, Senior Director of Operations at Altitude Sports & Entertainment. Tim takes us behind the scenes of live sports production, sharing incredible career stories from his early days freezing as an endzone camera operator to driving a $750k satellite truck through mountain passes.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:36 - Cold Open: Wisconsin Rose Bowl Memories
3:55 - Two Truths, No Lies: Running Camera in a Snowstorm
6:16 - Stories from the Satellite Truck Era
9:41 - Pulling Off the Avs & Nuggets Championship Parades
14:38 - Dealing with Bonded Cellular & Tower Jamming Challenges
18:26 - The Altitude Sports Production Playbook (250+ Broadcasts a Year)
20:51 - Production Flexibility, Scaling Budgets, & Tiered Events
22:10 - The Intersection of Linear & Digital Broadcasting in 2026
25:02 - Innovating with Skycam & Altitude Plus Subscriber Growth
26:09 - The Streaming Playground: Testing, Analytics, and Learning to Fail