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MLB NETWORK Tab Butler MLB Network Sr. Director Media Management & Post Production

Hitting It Out Of The Park:

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 Largest debut in cable TV history by nearly 2X  50 Million Households Launch – January 2009  65 Million Households – September 2011  Over 70 Million Households – July 2013  Production of NHL Network – Oct 2015  Consolidating MLB Production – March 2019 NHL Network Move

 August 2015: BAM purchases NHL streaming rights

 September 2015: Edit systems and feed acquisition completed

 October 2015: Live NHL Network programming originates from NJ

 February 2016: Dedicated control room (PC-3) completed

 March 2016: Dedicated GFX control rom (GCR-3) completed.

 May 2016 Dedicated studio “The Rink” debuts MLB Network Studio 3 MLB Network Studio 42 Studio K

MLB Network NHL Network MLB Network Studio 21 MLB Network Studio 21 NHL Network – The Rink 2008 PRODUCTION SYSTEM – THE WORKFLOW The Architecture DIAMOND Asset Management System Application Level Aurora & Final Cut Pro Edit Systems

Infrastructure Level

Grass Valley Omneon Digital Production System Play-to-Air Finished On Air Playout Live Feeds Programs (Game HD Video for MLB HD Broadcast Server MLB Network Broadcasts) Storage Network

File Feeds (Game Records) Commercial HD Play out to Control Rooms, Content other Facility areas...

Archive Front Porch Digital Content DIVA SUN SL-8500 Archive Level

Warehouse

Off Site Data Tape Storage HD Video Stored On DataData Tape MLB Network - 2013 The Vision…

Expanding to the Data Center MLB Network - 2013 Why Expanding…?

Current Space and Power Limitations MLB Network - 2018 Expanding Again…

More People, More Content, More Outlets… Off-site Data Center @ CoreSite

28 Racks Expanding to 37 Racks 2014 PRODUCTION SYSTEM – THE WORKFLOW

MLB Archive CoreSite MLB Network System 2 Emerson Lane 40 Hartz Way DDN 15 DIVA Actors Oracle GS7K GRIDScaler Multiple 40 on FC SL-8500 950 TB Disk Cache Gig Ethernet C-240's 32 T10KD / 15 LTO-4 Multiple 40 Gig Ethernet

Cisco UCS Platform MLB Network 40 Hartz Way VMware MLBN / NHLN Environment Cisco Oracle Cisco Edit Workstations C-240's B-200's ACSLS / DIVA MultiDyne 1 Single Edit MultiDyne DIAMOND / KVM TX Mode Fiber KVM RX Blade Engines GV STRATUS DASH Workstations 86 Units 20 Currently 86 Currently DIAMOND DIAMOND SCHEDULER Workflows

Multiple 10 Multiple 10 Gig Ethernet Gig Ethernet FC FC GV Summits – X SAN FC Quantum Tegile Quantum FC GV Summits – Y SAN 80 Record Channels StorNext StorNext 80 Record Channels Primary Back Up

NetApp Boot from SAN NetApp X- SAN User Profiles Y- SAN 2.88 PB Storage Boot Images 2.88 PB Storage MLB Network MLBN Production Expectations Video Archive • Content Requests are fulfilled within 5 - 10 minutes Overview • Content required is short in nature… (Walk off home run... Etc. )

• Collections of disparate content is built in DIAMOND and restored automatically and quickly, with Media Management inserting tapes in robot, if necessary.

• Show records and game records can be 125 GB to 300 GB at 50 Mb/s

• A 307 GB file, on LTO-4, took 2 Hours and 7 Minutes to Restore

• A PFR from the same file took 3 minutes to Restore

• Current Tape Stock in Library • 20,046 LTO-4 Tapes (16 PB) • 6,006 T10KD Tapes (51 PB) MLB Network Oracle DIVA Architecture Workflows Video Archive LTO-4 Drive File Read (Read Only) Overview File Write 950 Mb/s MAX DDN Disk Cache 870 TB Usable File Write File Read T10KD Drive File Read (Read Write) 1,850 Mb/s MAX

DIVA Migration LTO-4 to T10KD LTO-4 Drive File Read (Read Only) 950 Mb/s MAX

DDN Disk Cache File Write 870 TB Usable Copy 1 T10KD Drive File Write (Read Write) Copy 2 1,850 Mb/s MAX

DIVA Archive LTO-4 Drive (Read Only) File Write 950 Mb/s MAX

DDN Disk Cache File Write 870 TB Usable Copy 1 T10KD Drive File Write (Read Write) Copy 2 1,850 Mb/s MAX MLB Network Oracle DIVA Restore Workflows Video Archive DIVA Restore / Partial File Restore Overview From DDN Disk Cache LTO-4 Drive (Read Only) 950 Mb/s MAX DDN Disk Cache File Read 870 TB Usable T10KD Drive (Read Write) 1,850 Mb/s MAX

DIVA Restore / Partial File Restore Order Check Cache, then T10KD, then LTO-4 LTO-4 Drive File Read (Read Only) 950 Mb/s MAX DDN Disk Cache File Read 870 TB Usable File Read T10KD Drive (Read Write) 1,850 Mb/s MAX MLB Network Oracle DIVA Migration Workflows Video Archive LTO-4 to T10K-D Overview • January 2016 – Install 32 T10K-D Drives in SL-8500

• August 2016 - Started DIVA Migration to T10K-D Tape Format • 45,352 LTO-4 Tapes In Archive • 870 TB DDN NAS Disk Cache Key to Workflow • 12 LTO-4 Drives Dedicated 7x24x365 to Migration • 3 LTO-4 Drives Available for File Restores • 32 T10K-D Drives Available for All Writes, and Reads

• September 2018 – Migrated 25,306 Tapes and Counting – 20,000 to go….

• July 2020 – Expected Migration Completion MLB Network Oracle DIVA Migration Workflows Video Archive T10K-D to LTO-9 / LTO-10 Overview • 2020 – Existing Migration Completes • Anticipate Over 12,000 T10K-D Tapes In Archive • MLB Network, MLB Archives, Plus MLB Digital Content

• Current Growth of Library is 150,000 Hours per Year

• 2022 or 2023 – Next Migration Effort Begins • Technology Rollout will Drive Deployment Schedule • Dedicated Pool of 16-20 T10K-D Drives for Migration

• Migration Completion Target by 2026 or 2027 Video Archive Facts

7,200 7,400 6,800

5,200 4,200 3,600 2,900 2,500 2,000

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Hours of Content Recorded per Week Video Archive Facts 1,000,000

750,000 625,000 475,000 275,000 150,000

2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Content Growth Over the Years - in Hours Video Archive Facts

86

66 52 40 30 22 15 6 10 0 3 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Content in Petabytes Added Per Year The DIAMOND Platform As Deployed at MLB Network

DIAMOND ON ICE

Digitized Content DIAMOND DIAMOND STAKEHOLDERS

Live Games

Television Coverage

Pitch -by-Pitch Information

Video Content DIAMOND Archives Legacy

Databases Baseball Operations Photo Content & Print (Umpires, etc.) Historical Data

Publishing & Photos Clubs Business Partners DIAMOND System Components • DIAMOND Core Server • DIAMOND Logging • DIAMOND View

• DIAMOND Game Logging • DIAMOND Media Management • DIAMOND Adobe Premiere Plugin • DIAMOND DASH DIAMOND System Components • DIAMOND Core Server • DIAMOND Logging • DIAMOND View

• DIAMOND Scheduler • DIAMOND Archive – Integrated with Front Porch • DIAMOND Cutter (UFTP Engine) • DIAMOND Watcher (Automated File Movement) • DIAMOND In The Cloud Platform DIAMOND System Statistics

DIAMOND – MLB Baseball

• Total Assets 1,154,886 • Total Hours Logged (Approx.) 1,021,000 • Total Individual Events 11,890,077 • Total ‘People’ Identified 18,990,935 • Total Categorizations 47,975,012 DIAMOND System Statistics

DIAMOND ON ICE – NHL Hockey

• Total Assets 217,753 • Total Hours Logged (Approx.) 150,000 • Total Individual Events 1,910,135 • Total ‘People’ Identified 3,232,102 • Total Categorizations 8,769,996 DIAMOND System Components

Twenty DIAMOND Logger Workstations DIAMOND Logger Interface

11:30:46;00 DIAMOND Game Logger Interface

11:30:46;00 DIAMOND Premiere Interface – Basic Game View DIAMOND Premiere Interface – Search DIAMOND Premiere Interface – ENPS Integration DIAMOND Scheduler

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DIAMOND Scheduler

Automates Records of 160 GV Summit Channels DIAMOND In The Cloud DIAMOND In The Cloud

Grass Valley X and Y SANs – Hi-res DIAMOND Platform (Secaucus) Transcode Hi-res games video to 2Mb h.264 proxy

Stadium Transcoder Farm DIAMOND Logger DIAMOND Loggers: Based on criteria for each Stakeholder the Logger will provide additional information DIAMOND and accurately mark the in- and out-points for each event

MetadataDIAMOND is checked/CLOUD into Video is searched and streamed DIAMONDView

User 2Mb proxy video files are copied to the DIAMOND Cloud Platform

DIAMOND CLOUD Staging Storage PEARL User Platform for videoRequest source made by PIA /Response and UFT SURE User +

POG User

Umpire Feedback Tool PIA + DIAMOND In The Cloud

AWS Cloudfront DIAMOND

1.5Mbps h.264 proxy 1.0Mbps h.264 proxy West 0.5Mbps h.264 proxy East

1.5Mbps h.264 proxy 1.0Mbps h.264 proxy Media Server 0.5Mbps h.264 proxy Media Server West East

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