LAS VEGAS—PSSI Global Services, a provider of live event transmission solutions, has acquired Beagle Networks, a developer of mission-critical IT infrastructure and onsite technical support for media and enterprise customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

For more than a decade, Beagle has helped develop bespoke, robust IT and networking solutions for some of the largest live broadcasts in North America, including the World Series and the Super Bowl. Beagle has built its reputation on designing secure, resilient networks with both onsite and remote support, along with immediate, 24/7 responsiveness to its customers, PSSI said.

Ryan Werber, Founder and President of Beagle Networks, will continue to lead the team of network engineers and field technicians.

“We could not be more excited about PSSI’s investment in our company,” said Werber. “We’ve been working alongside PSSI for years on TV compounds, and their reputation in the industry is second to none. Combining PSSI’s transmission engineering and project management expertise with Beagle’s IT and network capabilities creates an impressive solution platform for the live events industry.”

One early initiative of the PSSI and Beagle teams will be a consolidated effort to more comprehensively support Fox Sports, a legacy customer of both companies.

“Complexity and innovation are standard across live productions, which is why Fox Sports trusts Beagle Networks and PSSI," said Brad Cheney, vice president of Field Operations and Engineering at Fox Sports. "We’re excited to see how this partnership evolves to navigate the increasing demands of today’s broadcast landscape."

In addition to its service to existing customers, including INDYCAR, NASCAR, and numerous enterprise customers, Beagle will leverage PSSI’s extensive engineering and project management expertise to expand its service capabilities. Beagle will also lend its know-how to ongoing IT upgrades at the PSSI International Teleport (PIT) and PSSI’s professional services portfolio.

“As soon as we met the team at Beagle, we knew they would be a perfect fit for the culture and spirit we have at PSSI Global Services,” said Derek Blount, CEO of PSSI Global. “We’ve been looking for the right opportunities to expand PSSI’s reach in the live event marketplace and beyond. Bringing Beagle into the family will enable us to provide so much more to our customers and their valuable content, from the TV compound to the teleport and to their viewers around the world.”

The PSSI/Beagle team will be in Booth W1543 of the West Hall of the LVCC at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 19-22.

LAS VEGAS and OSLO—PSSI, a global provider of live media production services announced a new phase in its collaboration with Appear, deploying Appear’s X Platform to upgrade its mobile fleet and PSSI International Teleport in advance of live coverage of the FIFA World Cup, which takes place in North America, June 11-July 19.

PSSI also deployed Appear X for its coverage of the FIFA Club World Cup Cup in 2025. The company said it selected Appear’s solutions “due to their high density, integrated functionality and advanced security, enabling PSSI to build a more flexible and future-ready contribution infrastructure.”

“Upgrading the PSSI trucks and our teleport in Pittsburgh with Appear’s X Platform puts us in a strong position for an extremely demanding summer of live sports,” says Derek Blount, CEO of PSSI. “The combination of Appear’s high-density deployment and our own operations and engineering expertise enables us to exceed our customers’ requirements in premium live events. As an early adopter of this platform, PSSI has years of experience proving the reliability of both the Appear technology and the support team behind it.”

Appear is providing PSSI with multiple X20 chassis and a range of integrated functionality including encoding, decoding, satellite modulation and demodulation, ASI and Secure Reliable Transport (SRT).

As part of this project, Appear has enabled PSSI to upgrade its video transport security to BISS-2, giving customers confidence that their premium sports feeds are highly secure, leveraging AES-128 encryption, dynamic key rotation and real-time receiver control.

“PSSI operates in some of the most challenging live production and transmission environments in the broadcast market, with its customers demanding flawless performance, strong security and total operational reliability,” said Ed McGivern, President & General Manager, Appear US. “This deployment helps ensure that PSSI delivers for its customers with greater efficiency, more flexibility and the confidence that premium live sports feeds are protected at every stage.”

LAS VEGAS—Live-event transmission solutions provider PSSI Global Services has hired Ben Bradshaw as director of product and network development.

The 20-year veteran returns to the company after five years at EA Sports, where he led a team in creating fully virtualized production platforms that have expanded the video game maker’s cloud production capabilities, PSSI said. He brings experience in transmission, network engineering, and cloud services to his second stint at PSSI, the company said.

“Ben has spent the past five years at the cutting edge of remote production, cloud-based workflows and IT networking,” PSSI CEO Derek Blount said. “His appointment is a big step toward expanding our company. While our best-in-class remote transmission solutions and event management remain the core of our portfolio, Ben will be bringing exciting new products and services to market while expanding the knowledge bases of our engineering and project management teams.”

Bradshaw will be tasked with evaluating and enhancing PSSI’s strategies for content distribution, storage and protection, the company said. He’ll bring a deep understanding of what content owners and rightsholders need to ensure seamless signal flow across multiple transmission delivery methods, the company said.

“I am thrilled to return to PSSI at such a pivotal moment in its expansion into exciting new frontiers of content distribution,” Bradshaw said. “Our field engineering and project management teams are the best in the world, and I’m excited to provide them with new tools and strategies to help our customers navigate the complexities of live content workflows. It’s great to be back!”

Clients can meet Bradshaw and learn more about his new role at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 19-22), Booth W1543.

LAS VEGAS—PSSI Global Services, a major provider of broadcast transmission solutions, has made another significant investment in state-of-the-art video delivery technology by purchasing transmission hardware from Appear.

The newest purchases include multiple X20 chassis, HDR HEVC encoder and decoder cards and multiple hardware-accelerated SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) cards, representing a notable expansion of PSSI’s IP and High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) infrastructure.

In addition, PSSI has procured corresponding BISS-CA addressable encryption licenses, enabling robust, secure, and scalable content protection for high-value live broadcasts, the companies said.

PSSI said the equipment from Appear will play a central role in supporting upcoming major live events, including the FIFA Club World Cup and FIFA World Cup.

PSSI is also designing and engineering new multi-path field transmission kits, built around the Appear X Platform, to enhance remote production capabilities for top-tier sports entertainment clients such as UFC, WWE, and Fox Sports.

“Whether over satellite, fiber or IP, this investment in Appear technology reflects our ongoing commitment to delivering world-class broadcast transmission solutions for the most prominent live events around the world,” said Derek Blount, CEO of PSSI. “Appear’s high-performance X Platform gives us the flexibility and scalability to meet the needs of our partners, from regional sports productions to the most complex international broadcasts.”

“One of the earliest industry pioneers to utilize the Appear X Platform in remote event contribution, PSSI’s senior engineering staff is recognized today as the foremost field experts in Appear technology,” said Ed McGivern, general manger, North America at Appear. “The joining of PSSI's service expertise, along with Appear’s advanced compression and processing technology, is a robust combination that holds tremendous benefits for technology-forward customers in the live events industry.”

For more information, visit: www.appear.net

BURBANK, Calif.—PSSI Global Services, a premier provider of cutting-edge transmission services, has appointed John Bright as its Director of Engineering Development. Bright brings over 25 years of experience in transmission and production engineering, including a distinguished earlier tenure with PSSI. His return to the company in this newly created position signals PSSI’s commitment to expanding its product and service offerings by strengthening its already best-in-class engineering team.

"We are thrilled to welcome John back into the PSSI family," said Derek Blount, Chief Executive Officer of PSSI Global Services. "John brings a wealth of industry knowledge to our company. He has owned his own uplink/production company, worked as a mobile unit EIC, and has extensive experience in broadcast facility design and implementation. On top of all that experience, I’ve never met someone who doesn’t love working with John. He’s already raising the bar for our engineering and customer service teams.”

Bright has already hit the ground running, significantly impacting PSSI’s key customers and business efforts. In recent weeks, he has worked alongside PSSI’s senior engineering staff to familiarize himself with the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, gain expertise with PSSI’s expanding fleet of Appear encoding equipment, and help finalize an antenna installation at WWE headquarters in Stamford, CT.

Bright returns to PSSI from Take One Broadcast Solutions, a boutique video integration company for broadcast professionals. With Take One, he designed and implemented broadcast facilities for multiple entities, including a 2110 control room for a Division I university. Bright's facility integration experience will complement PSSI’s expansive knowledge of RF installation and maintenance services, an important Professional Services vertical in the company’s business portfolio.

"I couldn’t be more excited to return to PSSI at this moment in its history as North America's leading transmission services provider,” Bright said. “Our new leadership is growth-oriented and eager to expand PSSI’s reach in the industry. We already have the best engineers and facilities in the world. To be tasked with helping make us even better is exactly the challenge I wanted. It’s great to be back!”

PSSI will be in Booth W2149 in the West Hall of the LVCC during the 2025 NAB Show, April 6-9.

LAS VEGAS—Jason Land has joined PSSI Global Services in the newly created role of vice president of business development, the transmission services provider said.

The new role marks a return to PSSI for Land, a 25-year industry veteran who will be tasked with leading business-development efforts with a focus on expanding the company’s reach into new verticals, strengthening its client relationships and identifying strategic growth opportunities.

“We are thrilled to welcome Jason back to the PSSI family,” PSSI Global Services CEO and Chief Financial Officer Derek Blount said in a statement. “His wealth of industry knowledge, strategic insight and deep understanding of our business will be invaluable as we undertake major steps to grow and adapt to the ever-evolving media business landscape.”

Land rejoins the company from Intelsat, where he most recently was senior principal project manager for media services, tasked with shaping project strategy and driving innovation in media service delivery via that company’s global satellite, fiber and IP network. Land’s tenure at Intelsat broadened his expertise in the critical realm of managed media services, PSSI said.

“I am excited to return to PSSI and be part of this dynamic team under legacy and new leadership,” Land said in a statement. “PSSI has the expertise, engineering, assets and the nimble, entrepreneurial spirit to be an integral part of the success of its loyal and growing customer base, and I look forward to driving new business opportunities and contributing to its continued success. It’s great to be home.”

PSSI Global Services is a specialist in the coordination, production and distribution of domestic and international programming. For more on the company, visit psiglobalcom.

BURBANK, Calif.—PSSI Global Services is stepping into the ring with Top Rank boxing to bring the organization’s live broadcasts of fights to TV screens for the first time since the pandemic began. To support the broadcasts, PSSI is providing both traditional and IP-based transmission services from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

PSSI has both on-site and off-site engineering services, as well as off-site monitoring and management to meet the production needs and safety protocols amid COVID-19. This includes using Nextologies equipment to deliver primary pathways via IP transport.

Each fight has had PSSI generate an IP feed to Paragon Media, where the company’s engineering team is on-site providing two-way remote ringside commentary services. A separate feed goes to a Nextologies server for IP distribution to worldwide broadcast partners.

The PSSI International Teleport in Pittsburgh has been used as a gateway for live international distribution and as an oversight layer for the full network, including satellite, fiber and IP elements.

According to PSSI, the collaboration with Top Rank is the first all-IP origination for a major boxing event and the first IP live international distribution to several countries.

For more information, visit www.pssiglobal.com.  

VAN NUYS, Calif.—Helping to bring one of the first major live sporting events back to TV, PSSI Global Services used C-band transmission vehicles to provide primary and backup paths, data and internet via satellite for “The Match II” charity golf event.

PSSI worked with Turner Sports to provide C-band transmission and data services for the event. PSSI says that it provided 420 mbps of service simultaneously via four Eutelsat C-band satellite transponders and utilized earth stations at PSSI International Teleport to back up the Turner teleport due to bad weather on the day of the event.

There were two C-band transmission vehicles at the golf course that worked in collaboration with PIT to transmit two separate paths of video and 16 channels of audio from each of the vehicles. PSSI also provided 100 mbps of bidirectional data and 50 mbps of bidirectional internet.

All satellite capacity was provided by Eutelsat and accessed via PIT.

“The Match II” featured Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning playing against Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady over Memorial Day weekend. The even raised $20 million for COVID-19 relief and drew 6.3 million viewers.

For more information, visit www.pssiglobal.com.  

VAN NUYS, Calif.—PSSI Global Services was responsible for the set-up for an at-home transmission for NASCAR’s Rolex 24 event from Daytona Beach, Fla., to NASCAR headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. PSSI utilized 32 video paths and 150 audio paths through satellite and AT&T Global Video Services fiber for the production.

PSSI used two-and-a-half transponders and one amplifier to transmit three different modulation schemes simultaneously. The primary multiplex featured DVB-S2X/32APSK, while the secondary program multiplex was modulated using DVB-S2X/16APSK; each operated at 125 Mbps. The third multiplex was 40 Mbps and used DVB-S2/8PSK modulation.

Together the three multiplexes totaled 290 Mbps and occupied 90 MHz of satellite bandwidth.

PSSI International Teleport provided hub services between the racetrack and NASCAR headquarters.

PSSI says it also provided comms and internet for the production.

More information is available at www.pssiglobal.com.  

VAN NUYS, Calif.—Alongside the race cars revving their engines at a recent NHRA event at the Atlanta Dragway, PSSI Global Services had a single transmission vehicle that served as a center for event coverage. Via satellite, the truck provided high-speed internet, AWS/Sony web streaming and broadcast transmission services. To do so, PSSI used one of its large-aperture C-band trucks to transfer and receive across two transponders of Eutelsat 113.

Throughout the four days of the event, and without an available fiber infrastructure, PSSI provided video backhaul services via satellite for the broadcast on Fox Sports 1.

The high-speed internet needed for the event came through PSSI International Teleport (PIT) in collaboration with Eutelsat to create a two-way IP over satellite system. The internet provided NHRA with the desired bandwidth and customized upload and download speeds.

Encoders at PIT helped provide AWS/Sony web streaming, taking in the feed from the event and distributing it to the appropriate streaming platforms. The encoders were able to accommodate all video formats and protocols, received feeds from any delivery mechanism and push content to any CDN or streaming site.

This was part of a continued relationship between NHRA, as PSSI also works with AT&T Global Video Services for other races where there is fiber infrastructure.

VAN NUYS, CALIF.—PSSI Global Services has announced that it has acquired Brightlink HD/Music City Satellite, LLC. The deal was officially closed back on Sept. 15, according to PSSI’s press release.

PSSI is a provider of mobile satellite transmission services, offering a fleet of 45 mobile satellite uplink trucks. With the addition of Brightlink HD’s fleet, PSSI aims to further boost its support of multi-channel transmission services.

The acquisition includes a dual antenna 5.5 C-band/ 2.4 Ku-band satellite uplink truck, one Ku-band satellite uplink truck with HD production capabilities, and a multi-purpose HD production vehicle. Brightlink HD founder John Bright will also join PSSI as an engineer.

VAN NUYS, CALIF.—PSSI Global Services is teeing off with the Golf Channel, as the two companies have announced a new multiyear partnership. Under the agreement, PSSI will be the primary provider of satellite transmission services for Golf Channel news, live tournaments and entertainment programming across North America.

Among the services that PSSI will provide is the use of more than 20 C-Band satellite trucks and flyaway systems for covering tournaments, as well as encoding and transmitting live news, events and press conferences. PSSI and the Golf Channel will also collaborate on the development of new technologies to optimize transmission methods.

PSSI is a provider of mobile satellite transmission technology located in Van Nuys, Calif.