Not every sport gets a prime time slot. And not every production has the budget of a national network. But that doesn’t mean the broadcast experience should fall short.
Tier 3 and Tier 4 sports include regional college teams, semi-pro leagues, Olympic training events, club-level competitions, and other emerging sports that are growing in visibility but often working with limited resources. These productions still require the same attention to detail, the same level of professionalism, and the same goal; to reach and engage their audience with a great experience.
What these teams need is a way to elevate their broadcast without overspending to get there. That’s exactly where Protostream and our ARCA system come in.
Producing a high-quality broadcast can get expensive fast. Travel, gear, staffing, and logistics add up quickly. For smaller leagues or organizations, this creates a tough decision: either stretch the budget to try and compete, or settle for a lower-quality experience that doesn’t represent the event or the athletes well.
But there’s another way.
With ARCA, Protostream’s remote audio solution, you don’t need to build a broadcast the old way. You can send one box to site and control the full audio mix remotely, keeping your footprint small and your standards high.
We’ve supported broadcasts where the announcers were on-site, but the engineer was across the country, mixing in real time from a command center. We’ve provided crystal-clear, uncompressed audio using standard internet connections. And we’ve done it all with a trusted team that knows how to collaborate, adapt, and make the technology feel seamless.
And it’s not just about the gear. It’s in the way we work.
With ARCA, we can manage up to 128 channels of audio, while also transmitting up to 64ch channels of uncompressed audio, with ultra-low latency, from anywhere to anywhere. It’s a portable, self contained solution that can be dropped into any existing broadcast workflow.
Need to manage announcers, crowd mics, IFB, and more? Done. Need to reduce the number of people you fly in? No problem.
Need it to just work, without needing to become an audio expert? That’s where our team comes in.
We’ve built our service model around flexibility and dependability. You can keep your broadcast booth and production team on-site while our engineers handle the audio off-site whether that’s across town or across the country. The result is a streamlined, scalable workflow that saves money and maintains quality without compromise.
Tier 3 and Tier 4 sports deserve better than “good enough.” They deserve broadcasts that reflect the energy and professionalism of the people involved, without requiring a network-level spend.
Our team has decades of experience solving production challenges. We’re not just offering a product, we’re providing a full-service, people-driven solution designed to meet your team where you are.
If you’re producing sports content and looking for a better way to scale, simplify, and improve the audio experience, let’s talk. We’d love to show you what ARCA can do!
