[Komkai] We are in Disney Streaming Services' Transmission Operations Center
or TOC for short.
[security pad beeps]
[Komkai] We are essentially taking live sports from wherever it is in the world...
How you guys doing?
-[man] What's up, Billy? -[man 2] Hello.
[Komkai] ...and getting it to your phone, to your computer, to your desktop,
so you are watching a live experience in pure HD.
[man] Satellites are good. Got a C-band and a Ku.
[Komkai] I'm genuinely excited
to be a part of something that will enrich the lives
of hundreds of thousands, and we're doing that every day.
I'm Pavan "Billy" Komkai,
the manager of Broadcast Engineering here at Disney Streaming Services.
[Komkai] Today we have an Ultimate Fighting Championship Fight Night
and UFC's in Sweden today, so we get to stream this in the morning.
Usually these events are happening in prime time, so it's a bit of a change,
you know, having such a high-pressure event early in the morning.
This is all live stuff, and it's kinda nerve-racking.
It's also very fun at the same time.
I was born and raised in New York, right across the river from Yankee Stadium,
you know, and there was a bridge close by that we used to walk over and watch games.
But not everybody's so fortunate and, you know,
we here at Disney Streaming Services,
we're able to bridge that gap just like that bridge
allowed me to go walk over and watch a game.
A rugby event in Australia can get to a person in America
just as fast as it would if you were right across the street.
There are thousands of cables, thousands of servers around the world
that are connected within our network
that allow us to get content from place A to place B.
To make sure the people are getting a perfect picture,
it goes through my team first.
How many events are live right now?
[engineer] Right now, we've got these three and Kobe's just starting.
[engineer 2] Kobe Bryant: Breaking Down Steph Curry.
[Komkai] You have to communicate with a lot of people to get this all to work.
[engineer 2] Okay, copy that. Thank you.
We have backup feeds. We have secondary backup feeds,
so if anything happens to our primary,
we have a lot of options to, you know, get it to the user.
You won't see black screens for very long if I'm doing my job right.
With ESPN+, there are a ton of sports.
Where else can you get things like lacrosse?
There's a bunch of rugby going on. You got some soccer going on.
You got some tennis going on.
Any of those niche sports you probably haven't seen on television too much.
Being able to put that into a massive scale is, you know, fulfilling.
I get to see things before everybody else does.
I could spoil a lot of things for a lot of people,
but I'm not gonna do that.
Being in any kind of live environment where things are happening now,
anything could happen.
Fifteen seconds.
And we are live.
[male announcer] Stockholm, Sweden.
The picturesque Scandinavian capital hosts an ever-growing MMA...
[Komkai] Everything under a Disney umbrella feels like magic.
You know, if you told me 20 years ago that we'd be able to watch television
on a small handheld device, it-- I wouldn't believe you.
My 10-year-old self would probably tell me I'm doing magic right now.