As the tennis-loving world tunes in for Wimbledon 2025, CMSI and Remote Picture Labs (RPL) are back behind the scenes. Together, they are transforming the way ESPN manages post-production during one of the year’s biggest sporting events. Building on their successful work at Wimbledon in 2024, CMSI and RPL have expanded their support for ESPN. They’ve now moved all of ESPN’s editing operations to CMSI’s fully cloud-based platform for Wimbledon 2025.

This year, the editing infrastructure is fully decentralized, with systems deployed in Connecticut, Los Angeles, the UK, and Canada. However, multiple teams collaborate across those locations to ensure seamless cloud-based editing for ESPN’s Wimbledon 2025 coverage. Editors are collaborating from ESPN headquarters, regional editing houses, and their own homes (in their boxer shorts, with dogs supervising, probably). Every edit system is connected through the RPL cloud, enabling seamless global coordination.

At the heart of the workflow are Avid Media Composer and Avid MediaCentral. These tools are among the most trusted in the broadcast editing industry. File transfers are handled by Signiant, while transcoding and quality control rely on Telestream Vantage. ESPN’s ingest and playout operations are managed with EVS IPDirector, and editors connect securely through HP Anyware, which ensures high-performance remote access across the board.

The power of CMSI’s cloud-based approach, combined with RPL’s proven platform, gives ESPN the flexibility to build teams that span continents while still maintaining the speed and precision required for live-event storytelling. By running all editing systems on the RPL cloud, ESPN can meet the tight turnaround times of a Grand Slam tournament without sacrificing creative quality.

Once again, CMSI and RPL are helping redefine what’s possible in remote broadcast production. And those supervising work-from-home dogs are finally getting paid to watch tennis balls for a whole different reason.