In 2025, BCC Live counted up one of its biggest—and busiest—years of work to date! Our team has flown, driven, and bicycled all over the world in the pursuit of producing unbeatable events for our clients. But unless you’re on this side of the keyboard, you might not know everything we got up to! Let’s have a good look at our year.
IRONMAN
IRONMAN and BCC Live have been working together for over 20 years, and our collaboration continues to reach new heights! We provide sound, power, IT, video, and livestreaming services to every single IRONMAN event in the US, as well as two in Canada, for more than 40 events! But nowadays, that’s the simplest part of our work.
As IRONMAN’s global broadcast studio, every broadcasted event goes through our studio where our team adds graphics, voiceover from our professional announcers, and top-of-the-line data tracking, before being streamed back out to the whole world. We have been the broadcast studio with IRONMAN for several years now, with 17 shows this year alone, but we’ve recently ramped up our involvement with the use of GPS and other tracking devices to improve the data the viewer sees. Of course, that meant further hands-on involvement, so our team flew all over the world to interface with the IRONMAN team worldwide! Talk about earning your frequent-flyer miles: the BCC team worked events in 9 countries besides the US this year, with one more on the way later in November! We really showed our “we can do anything” mentality with one more project we picked up for IRONMAN. Hearkening back to our days as a cabling and IT company, we designed and deployed a mobile security camera system for the IRONMAN World Championship events, ensuring that there was always a watchful eye over the athletes’ beloved bikes.
Cycling Races
The BCC team have always been enthusiastic fans of gravel and other off-road cycling, and this year we made our passion pay off: we took on live and post-production coverage for a whole series of cycling events for multiple clients! BCC Live was responsible for coverage of the Life Time Grand Prix series of off-road races, the FoCo Fondo, Levi’s GranFondo, the Littleton Twilight Criterium, and the Lauf Gravel Worlds events this year. That’s a lot of cycling to cover, but we were overjoyed to take on the challenge! Though we’ve used LiveU transmitter backpacks with cellular coverage for a couple years now, we’ve recently ramped up our usage of Starlinks to add upload speed in remote locations—including on the backs of motorcycles and in airborne helicopters.
More than once this year, a client has told us that their race course was impossible to livestream from, and we came back with crisp footage to fans around the globe. The technology to livestream anywhere is advancing every year, and we’re committed to staying on the cutting edge. And, of course, every team member will jump at the opportunity to go on more bike rides as a part of our event prep!
More Sporting Events
In addition to our work with Life Time for their Grand Prix of cycling events, BCC Live also livestreamed their inaugural LT Games, a hybrid athletic competition involving 17 different exercises that competitors must complete. And you thought a triathlon was complex! This was an interesting opportunity for us to tackle a new type of event, and makes us want to try more new things!
And on that note, BCC Live kicked off a second new type of event in conjunction with Twitch.TV: Expedition streams, with the Race the Ranch inaugural event taking place on October 22nd. This pitted Twitch streamers in teams of two against a series of real-life challenges out on a ranch near Hollister, California. It was a fun event all around—but critically, there was absolutely no cell service, so everything was run through Starlink! This was a great way to prove our hardware setup, as well as coordinate a gigantic team for us, with 14 team members on the ground and 5 more in the studio. Luckily, everything went smoothly, so we have renewed confidence that we can tackle huge events anywhere in the world.
Earlier in the year, BCC supported local sports by once again livestreaming the games of the Colorado Storm, a women’s soccer team based just down the road. This is definitely the most “conventional” of the sports we cover, so it’s actually a challenge in and of itself! But we love working with the Storm and covering their games with a close-knit team, and love building our skills in sportscasting to hopefully take on more in the future!
And while we started our livestreaming career in triathlon, and now take on more cycling races, we also cover the other two segments of triathlon. This year, BCC Live also provided coverage for the BolderBoulder 10K, one of the largest running races in the world! Being based in Boulder just like us, we’ve been around the BolderBoulder for years, so this was an excellent opportunity. In March, we returned to one of our other favorite towns, Chattanooga, to run audio and video for the annual Chattanooga Marathon once again. Finally, just this weekend, the BCC Live team set out to Florida to cover the Flanigan’s Rockin’ Rib Run 10K and—a first for us—a swimming-only race at the Miami Oceanman!
Conferences, Videos, and More
Sound like a lot? We’re not even getting to most of what we do back home! A/V and video production for non-sporting events is another one of our tentpole jobs. This year, BCC Live showed up for 10 more non-sporting events to lend a hand, including at the 40th annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, the IRONMAN North America conference just down the road, and the 6th annual Safety Summit with our friends at the Construction Safety Research Alliance. While you may think these events aren’t as pulse-pounding as covering sporting events, they’re often just as interesting! We get great opportunities to learn while we work at these events, while of course making them as great as possible.
And in our day-to-day? Well, apart from planning for upcoming events, we create and edit videos and podcasts for any client who needs us, including “the Voice of IRONMAN” Mike Reilly, the Colorado Rapids youth soccer team, and… ourselves! An occasional treat for us is to record our own podcast, 500 Cats, where we talk about the goings-on in the world of events and the unique stories we’ve encountered. Check it out—you’ll get a lot more of our story there than anywhere else!
What’s next for us? Just a few events remain before the end of the year, then we have a month or so of offseason before we get right back to it! We’ve already got some fun new events in the works for 2026, so stay tuned!