BCC Live provided extensive coverage of the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, including race-week production, press conferences, finish-line footage, international broadcasts, Multiview feeds, and highlights. The team also introduced a Sony PXW-Z300 camera and supported athlete bike security during preparation.
Ten hours after the Kona broadcast, BCC Live covered the Little Sugar MTB race in Arkansas using remote cameras, studio narration, and rapid horizontal and vertical social videos. The weekend required coordinated onsite and studio teams, international delivery, and real-time social production.
Eleven hours and 36 minutes of live coverage from Kona. Ten hours later, back in the studio for Little Sugar.
The October 10–11 weekend brought together two very different assignments for BCC Live: the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawai‘i and the fifth race of the Life Time Grand Prix in Northwest Arkansas. Between them were weeks of planning, a full week of onsite preparation, international broadcasts, new camera tools, and a quick turnaround from long-form race coverage to immediate social storytelling.
It was a demanding weekend. We also think it was our best weekend of broadcasting yet.
Kona starts long before the starting cannon
Five BCC Live teammates were onsite in Kona, arriving a week ahead of race day to begin setting up network infrastructure and preparing for the work ahead.
One of our newest assignments involved a different kind of camera coverage: installing security cameras to help keep athletes’ bikes safe during race week. Athletes arrive in Kona with an enormous amount invested in their preparation and equipment. Helping them sleep a little easier was a worthwhile addition to our role onsite.
From there, our cameras followed the conversations surrounding the championship.
We filmed the pre-race notable athlete press conference, hearing from some of the athletes preparing to compete on triathlon’s biggest stage. We also captured an age group ambassador panel, sharing stories with people in the room and watching online about what it means to take on this race—and why anything is possible.
Pre-race athlete press conference
Age group ambassador panel
After the racing, we returned for the post-race press conference with this year’s podium finishers.
And, as always, we ran the finish line camera, helping friends and loved ones everywhere see their athlete complete the journey. The professional race crowns the champions, but the finish line keeps telling stories long afterward.
Post-race press conference
Kona finish line
A new camera earns its place in the field
One standout from our work in Kona was our new Sony PXW-Z300 camcorder.
Over the years, we have moved from PX70s to PX90s, and the Z300 feels like another meaningful step forward. Its combination of 4K recording, 17x optical zoom, and AI-powered subject recognition autofocus gives our crew a useful set of tools for the variety of shooting a championship week demands.
The specifications matter because of what they let us do in the field. We need to move between panel discussions, press conferences, and finish line coverage while keeping the picture sharp and the subject in focus. In Kona, the subject tracking was particularly impressive.
We came away pleased with how reliably the camera performed—and with the images it helped us bring home.
“500 Cats” returns for season three
Somewhere in the middle of race-week preparations, our onsite team also found time to start season three of 500 Cats.
It is BCC Live’s occasionally wacky podcast about the work, people, and stories surrounding large events. We talk shop about races, interview the people behind the scenes who make them happen, and meet people whose experiences remind us why we love doing this.
Kona offered plenty to talk about.
Listen to the latest episode at 500cats.com.
An extraordinary race, delivered around the world
On Saturday, October 10, our five onsite crew members worked with four teammates in the studio to deliver the IRONMAN World Championship broadcast.
The main stream ran for 11 hours and 36 minutes and has since reached 2.7 million views. Alongside it, international coverage brought the race to audiences around the world, including German-language presentation through DAZN/ZDF and French-language coverage on L’Équipe Live with native-language hosts.
Watch the full Kona broadcast
We also brought back YouTube Multiview, giving viewers the option to choose the camera feeds that interested them most while listening to commentary from the main broadcast. Fans could follow the traditional program or spend more time with a particular view of the race.
Multiview: Camera 1
Multiview: Camera 2
Multiview: Camera 3
Across those channels, the technical delivery ran smoothly. The athletes gave us an extraordinary story to follow.
Frenchman Vincent Luis won through persistence and stamina. In the women’s race, American Taylor Knibb came back from behind Solveig Løvseth to claim the crown in a dramatic finish. It was a championship that kept changing right to the end. Read the race recap from USA Triathlon.
From our side of the broadcast, it was deeply satisfying to see the preparation hold up while a race of that intensity unfolded.
45-minute Kona highlights
Quick Kona highlights
Where fans watched Kona
Coverage included live broadcasts, full replays, highlights, and cutdowns, depending on the outlet and region. Some links below lead to general viewing hubs rather than a specific Kona replay.
| Outlet | Region | Coverage for Kona | Link(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ironman.com/proseries | Global* | Live, full replay, cutdown | Kona race page · Full replay |
| IRONMAN YouTube | Global* | Live, full replay, cutdown | Full race: main feed · 45-minute highlights · Quick highlights · Multiview: Cam 1 · Cam 2 · Cam 3 |
| DAZN | Global** | Live, full replay, cutdown | Kona viewing guide · Triathlon hub; no direct Kona replay link |
| L’Équipe Live | France | Live, full replay | IRONMAN coverage |
| La chaîne L’Équipe | France | Replay | |
| ESPN within Disney+ | Caribbean & Latin America | Live, full replay, cutdown | Disney+; general landing page |
| hr-Fernsehen / HR TV | Germany | Listed as live, full replay, cutdown; links provided are highlights | hessenschau highlights · Sportschau highlights |
| RTVE Play | Spain | Live, full replay | RTVE Play · IRONMAN search; no direct Kona replay link |
| Teledeporte | Spain | Cutdown | Teledeporte; general landing page |
| SuperSport | South Africa | Live, full replay, cutdown | SuperSport; general landing page |
| Outside TV | US & Canada | Highlights / cutdown | IRONMAN Pro Series hub; no specific 2026 Kona item linked |
| iQIYI | China | Live, full replay, cutdown | iQIYI; general landing page |
| ZDF — not an official partner | Germany | Live stream and late-night TV, full replay | Full replay · Highlights |
* Excludes China and Russia.
** Excludes China, Russia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Ten hours later: Little Sugar MTB
Ten hours after signing off from Kona, we were back at it.
Sunday, October 11 brought Little Sugar MTB, the fifth race of the Life Time Grand Prix, on the trails around Bentonville and Bella Vista, Arkansas. Six BCC Live crew members were onsite, while three teammates from the previous day’s broadcast returned to the studio.
The assignment looked different from our traditional Life Time Grand Prix broadcasts.
Little Sugar’s winding mountain bike trails called for a different approach to sharing the action. We brought remote camera feeds into the studio, with onsite hosts narrating what was happening, then clipped the coverage into 16:9 horizontal and 9:16 vertical videos for immediate release across Life Time Grand Prix’s social channels.
That created what we think of as a “Like Live” social experience: race moments reaching fans as the day unfolded, in formats suited to where they were watching.
The production work still happened in real time. Cameras had to find the action, feeds had to reach the studio, and our team had to identify, cut, and deliver the moments worth sharing while the race continued.
For viewers, it meant getting to the good parts without having to trek through the woods with us.
Watch the Little Sugar video playlist.
A long weekend worth the effort
Kona and Little Sugar asked different things of our team.
In Hawai‘i, we supported a full championship week and a long international race broadcast. In Arkansas, we worked to get the action off the trails and onto fans’ screens in short, immediate updates.
Both depended on the same things: preparation, communication, reliable tools, and people who could keep making good decisions deep into a demanding weekend.
After a long week leading into an even longer weekend, we came away tired—and proud. We think we delivered some of our best work yet, from the first network setup in Kona to the final Little Sugar clip.
Want to talk through live coverage, event infrastructure, or a social video workflow for your next race? Get in touch with BCC Live.
