Feld Entertainment, family owned and operated, is the worldwide leader in producing and presenting live touring family entertainment experiences that bring people together and uplift the human spirit.

Properties include Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Monster Jam, Disney On Ice, Monster Energy AMA Supercross, and the SuperMotocross World Championship. Across the brand portfolio, Feld Entertainment has entertained millions of families in more than 80 countries and on six continents.

For nearly 60 years, Feld Entertainment has brought Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, The Greatest Show On Earth to audiences across the country. In 2026, the 148^th edition was introduced, reimagined for today’s families and touring nationwide, with the clear ambition to evolve the circus into a modern, high-energy experience built for a new generation.

Branded as The Greatest Party On Earth, this new production set out the audience into participants by creating a live environment that feels contemporary, interactive, and immersive, while still maintaining the precision and reliability required for a fast-moving arena tour operating in some of the largest and most technically complex venues in the world.

The Challenge
A key component of this vision was real-time audience integration. Feld aimed to capture and feature authentic, in-the-moment, fan reactions and audience participation during the show by streaming live video directly from the crowd and showcasing live reactions on the large arena (or IMAG) screens in the arenas. This required performers to move freely throughout the audience while seamlessly capturing and transmitting broadcast-quality video.

“To create this fun atmosphere for The Greatest Party on Earth, we wanted to encourage more audience interaction and get everyone up and dancing,” said Brian Hanley, Senior Video Operations Manager at Feld Entertainment. “We thought that by filming from that first person experience from a mobile phone, it would create that social media influencer vibe on the live screen for the whole audience to see.”

Delivering on this vision introduced a complex technical challenge. The solution needed to provide a stable wireless connection, ultra-low latency to ensure real-time synchronization with IMAG screens, and professional-grade video quality—all within highly dynamic, unpredictable environments.

With each performance taking place in a different arena with its own infrastructure, RF environment, and network limitations, Feld was faced with several significant challenges such as wireless congestion from thousands of audience members, varying venue layouts, and limited setup time. These challenges created a live production set up where traditional fixed cameras and infrastructure-heavy solutions were impractical for traversing the crowd and producing the immersive experience they were trying to create.

The Result
With the need for a reliable and portable solution, Feld Entertainment implemented a Haivision-based mobile live video contribution and streaming workflow to support and enhance audience interaction.

Performers now film with smartphones with the Haivision MoJoPro professional camera app installed, which captures live video and wirelessly streams it to the production control environment where a Haivision StreamHub receiver distributes it to the IMAG screens for the audience to see.

By deploying high-powered access points around the performance space, they were able to establish a controlled, high-priority WiFi environment within the venue, allowing for an effective point-to-point connection. This connection and solution enables live video to be displayed at low latency, allowing audience members to see themselves on the screen without delays.

“One of the biggest issues was latency and we did not want to deal with relying on the internet. We didn't want to have to deal with the stream coming back with too much delay. We wanted everything to stay local,” said Hanley. “We don’t always get internet in every arena, so we also needed something that could help with that.”

In addition to performers capturing footage from within the audience, trapeze artists take the experience even further—using MoJoPro-equipped mobile devices while soaring through the air to film breathtaking, first-person perspectives. These dynamic, never-before-seen angles deepen the sense of immersion and bring audiences closer to the action than ever before—something only possible with a fully flexible and highly reliable solution.

Ease-of-use was also important when choosing MoJoPro for the show. Performers are operating the app, so it’s vital that the solution is lightweight, and is very simple to use.

The deployment of the Haivision solution is enabling Feld Entertainment to deliver an immersive Ringling Bros. Circus experience that connects the audience directly to the performers and involves them in the storytelling, enhancing engagement without disrupting the flow of the performance.

As part of NEP Finland’s recent move to its new headquarters, the company built three new studios and five control rooms in Helsinki’s western Pasila district. One of the central goals in building these state-of-the-art, IP-based facilities, was to automate and streamline production for popular weekly shows such as the Finnish Lotto and Eurojackpot that NEP produces for Veikkaus, the Finnish national betting agency.

The Challenge
Jyrki Lepistö, deputy managing director at NEP Finland, oversaw the search for new technology that would not only achieve the company’s automation goals, but also reduce expenditures while future-proofing productions for maximum flexibility including remote and higher resolution workflows. 

To maximize their investment, Lepistö’s team wanted a system with flexible resources that could be easily redeployed and customized to suit the production. As remote productions have become increasingly popular, the team also wanted a system that could be potentially controlled from any location using the open internet and a browser-based user interface. 

The system should be capable of running on non-proprietary, COTS hardware in a datacenter type environment. Resources should be easily sharable with the ability to spin up and spin down processes as required. Most importantly, operators wanted a low-latency system that was easy to transition to without a steep learning curve. 

Finding the Best Fit
Since NetOn.Live’s LiveOS platform is software-based and operates in a pure SMPTE ST 2110 IP ecosystem, it was considered the perfect fit to transition the Lotto and Eurojackpot productions into more streamlined and automated workflows. “LiveOS represents a tremendous value for us. It has all the features we were looking for with room for expansion.,” said Lepistö.

Lepistö’s team also liked the fact that LiveOS could be used remotely almost immediately giving the group a freedom of deployment previously impossible to achieve.

“Unlike purpose-built proprietary systems of the past, we simply bought a few computers with software and some network switches, installed them in the datacenter in the basement and we were ready to go,” said Lepistö. 

Integrations and Automation
NEP requested that SPX Graphics by Softpix, an HTML-5 based application, be the graphics engine to be used within LiveOS. The first significant task for the NetOn.Live team was to seamlessly integrate the graphics engine into the LiveOS platform. 

The flexibility and the shareability of LiveOS has enabled the production team to design production templates that can be instantly deployed. Switching from the Lottery production to Eurojackpot production simply entails spinning up the current project while spinning down one that is no longer required. 

The new production workflow requires fewer physical and human resources to produce a seamless production at a fraction of the cost. Operators can modify their layouts as they want to further streamline their views and tools.

“Being able to customize and share means we no longer require dedicated multiviewers for everyone,” said Jukka Keski-Loppi, CEO of Pipeline Media, a systems integrator specializing in broadcasts workflows. “We can share things like timers, so the director knows when the B-roll is ending, and we don't need to have dedicated clocks and timers in the galleries. Everything can be built into the user interfaces as required.”

In addition to automating cameras and setting shots, the production team is also able to automate graphics. For example, for the Eurojackpot production, the winning numbers are provided by the Veikkaus server and automatically populate the lower thirds, helping to provide a seamless and error free experience. 

A Template for the Future
As with most things, change can be difficult for people used to doing things in a certain way. Not unsurprisingly, some members of the production team were initially reluctant to learn a new system. “In the end, the transition for the team was surprisingly easy because the user interface is so intuitive and modern compared to the old software they were using,” said Lepistö. 

Lepistö and his team are confident they can automate even more capabilities as time goes on. “The system is now resolution independent, so we can do 1080p HD or even UHD HDR productions as required simply by changing some parameters in the configuration,” said Keski-Loppi. “In this way, we’ve provided NEP with a future-proofed system.”

If NEP wishes to expand their system, they don’t need to buy dedicated hardware for playback channels, recording capacity, multiviewers or graphics and no extra cabling. It’s simply a matter of adding more horsepower in the server cluster. Everything is under one umbrella and a single point of development, so there’s no need to worry about version mismatches between equipment and third parties. 

“We’re happy to report that the price of production is significantly lower with the NetOn.Live system,” concludes Lepistö.

For more information on LiveOS go to: https://www.neton.live/solutions/ 

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