Chris Sabato
@chrissabato.com
Video Production | Graphic Design | Photography | Coding | Athletic Comms Director for @wubearcats@bsky.social
chrissabato.com
chrissabato.com
I built a review interface to streamline the use of the live stream for official reviews.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6S...
Official Review Interface
YouTube video by Christopher Sabato
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I built a review interface to streamline the use of the live stream for official reviews.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6S...
Follow me through a weekend during crossover season
YouTube video by Christopher Sabato
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Yesterday we produced four volleyball games and two soccer games. My office was 86° when I arrived at 8am, was above 90° most of the day and then down to 87° when I left at 11pm.
September 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yesterday we produced four volleyball games and two soccer games. My office was 86° when I arrived at 8am, was above 90° most of the day and then down to 87° when I left at 11pm.
I'm moving our comms infrastructure from an x32 to a Symetrix Prism DSP. It will be way more flexible and have more room for growth. The initial design has 2 productions with 2 PLs each and controls to switch each camera between production A and B.
July 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm moving our comms infrastructure from an x32 to a Symetrix Prism DSP. It will be way more flexible and have more room for growth. The initial design has 2 productions with 2 PLs each and controls to switch each camera between production A and B.
Reposted by Chris Sabato
Sabato Receives CSC ChangeMaker Innovation Award
https://www.wubearcats.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250521m8uukg
https://www.wubearcats.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250521m8uukg
May 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sabato Receives CSC ChangeMaker Innovation Award
https://www.wubearcats.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250521m8uukg
https://www.wubearcats.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250521m8uukg
I created an Athletics Communications Discord. If you work in the field, please consider joining.
chrissabato.com/blog/discord
chrissabato.com/blog/discord
Chris Sabato, Small College Athletics Creative
A dedicated discussion space for athletics communicators to connect, share ideas, and ask questions.
chrissabato.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I created an Athletics Communications Discord. If you work in the field, please consider joining.
chrissabato.com/blog/discord
chrissabato.com/blog/discord
Rough day... Softball TD bailed, Lacrosse TD bailed, I had to do PxP and TD for our final Lacrosse game of the year
April 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Rough day... Softball TD bailed, Lacrosse TD bailed, I had to do PxP and TD for our final Lacrosse game of the year
Remote baseball production, 7 tennis streams and about to start a Lacrosse production. Organized chaos.
April 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Remote baseball production, 7 tennis streams and about to start a Lacrosse production. Organized chaos.
One remaining home match for each tennis team and the weather looks good, so I guess it's time to install the cameras for a live stream.
April 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One remaining home match for each tennis team and the weather looks good, so I guess it's time to install the cameras for a live stream.
Tackling neutral site baseball broadcasts with a remote kit. The core is a JVC HC500, streaming SRT through a Haivision Gateway on AWS to vMix on campus. I'm using SpaceCommz.io for comms and Dolby.io for return video and mix-minus for PxP.
March 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Tackling neutral site baseball broadcasts with a remote kit. The core is a JVC HC500, streaming SRT through a Haivision Gateway on AWS to vMix on campus. I'm using SpaceCommz.io for comms and Dolby.io for return video and mix-minus for PxP.
Doing play-by-play for women's lacrosse. Here's my spotting chart. It's fully automated and only takes 60 seconds to update.
March 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Doing play-by-play for women's lacrosse. Here's my spotting chart. It's fully automated and only takes 60 seconds to update.
Sometimes I spend my day programming, sometimes it's graphic designing, sometimes it's producing live broadcasts, and sometimes it's spending time in a muddy field trying not to get hit by a medieval war weapon
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Sometimes I spend my day programming, sometimes it's graphic designing, sometimes it's producing live broadcasts, and sometimes it's spending time in a muddy field trying not to get hit by a medieval war weapon
Last year, I built a live tennis results web app to drive broadcast graphics. I've slowly been adding to it. It's easy to update score from a phone. It can export stat crew XML files. As of today, it uses AI to generate a recap release.
February 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Last year, I built a live tennis results web app to drive broadcast graphics. I've slowly been adding to it. It's easy to update score from a phone. It can export stat crew XML files. As of today, it uses AI to generate a recap release.
Last basketball game of the year. Here are all the cables and converters that were in the score table.
February 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Last basketball game of the year. Here are all the cables and converters that were in the score table.
Something I've been testing... Dolby.io, Spacecommz, and Companion in iframes to create a single webpage to run a broadcast from my phone.
February 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Something I've been testing... Dolby.io, Spacecommz, and Companion in iframes to create a single webpage to run a broadcast from my phone.
I have a great crew helping produce tonight's basketball games. It's nice when I can just be an engineer.
February 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I have a great crew helping produce tonight's basketball games. It's nice when I can just be an engineer.
I've got four dead studio strobe batteries dead after only one use. Apparently the chargers don't like when they get too low. Trying to force a charge directly to the batteries. It's worked on one so far.
January 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I've got four dead studio strobe batteries dead after only one use. Apparently the chargers don't like when they get too low. Trying to force a charge directly to the batteries. It's worked on one so far.
I posted a video of our setup to broadcast swimming years ago and still get comments on it, so here's an update.
https://youtu.be/GYuJu46ohFM?si=aL3F7cQx9IuWt0nR
https://youtu.be/GYuJu46ohFM?si=aL3F7cQx9IuWt0nR
Swimming Broadcast Setup
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I posted a video of our setup to broadcast swimming years ago and still get comments on it, so here's an update.
https://youtu.be/GYuJu46ohFM?si=aL3F7cQx9IuWt0nR
https://youtu.be/GYuJu46ohFM?si=aL3F7cQx9IuWt0nR
Another proof of concept. This time I built a women's basketball play-by-play Spotting sheet in Google Sheets. It automatically updates roster, stat, schedule, and coaching info.
chrissabato.com/blog/20250103
chrissabato.com/blog/20250103
Automating a play-by-play call sheet in Google Sheets
As a proof of concept, I built a women's basketball play-by-play call sheet in Google Sheets that automatically updates roster and stat information from the NCAA database.
chrissabato.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Another proof of concept. This time I built a women's basketball play-by-play Spotting sheet in Google Sheets. It automatically updates roster, stat, schedule, and coaching info.
chrissabato.com/blog/20250103
chrissabato.com/blog/20250103
As a proof of concept, I built a women's basketball play-by-play call sheet in Excel that automatically updates roster and stat information from the NCAA database.
https://chrissabato.com/blog/20250101
https://chrissabato.com/blog/20250101
January 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
As a proof of concept, I built a women's basketball play-by-play call sheet in Excel that automatically updates roster and stat information from the NCAA database.
https://chrissabato.com/blog/20250101
https://chrissabato.com/blog/20250101
Helped out CC Media tonight. It's always fun to use professional equipment.
December 24, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Helped out CC Media tonight. It's always fun to use professional equipment.
We picked up a second eng camera so now we can have multiple manned cameras for basketball. I ran some more coax and cat6 and installed a box that's attached to the wall and clearly labeled. I even color coded the cables.
December 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
We picked up a second eng camera so now we can have multiple manned cameras for basketball. I ran some more coax and cat6 and installed a box that's attached to the wall and clearly labeled. I even color coded the cables.
Emailing Word rosters as attachments is dumb. It is insecure, inefficient, and antiquated. There are numerous ways to improve the process but in the athletic communications field, "this is how we've always done it" is the best reason to do anything.
December 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Emailing Word rosters as attachments is dumb. It is insecure, inefficient, and antiquated. There are numerous ways to improve the process but in the athletic communications field, "this is how we've always done it" is the best reason to do anything.
I refreshed my basketball scorebug and added score update animations.
November 30, 2024 at 9:44 PM
I refreshed my basketball scorebug and added score update animations.