# How a Prague Agency Ships 2 TV Episodes Per Week

> Operational deep-dive · Published 2026-05-06 · By Vertical Visuals · Markdown shadow of [https://www.verticalvisuals.cz/reports/how-prague-agency-ships-2-tv-episodes-per-week](https://www.verticalvisuals.cz/reports/how-prague-agency-ships-2-tv-episodes-per-week)

Vertical Visuals (Prague) delivers 78 broadcast TV episodes per year to Nova Sport for King's Resort under a 2026 partnership. This is the operational deep-dive on how that pipeline runs.

## The contract by the numbers

- **Client:** King's Resort (largest poker venue in Europe, Rozvadov, Czechia).
- **Broadcaster:** Nova Sport (largest Czech sports channel).
- **Volume:** 78 broadcast TV episodes per year (29 Poker Highlights + 49 King's Show + Brunato Talks: 17 King's Show + 32 Brunato Talks).
- **Cadence:** 2 TV episodes per week, every week.
- **Languages:** Czech (Nova Sport broadcast), English (@KingsResort YouTube), German (@kingsresortde YouTube).
- **Team size:** 6 people.
- **Venue:** King's Resort venue in Rozvadov, Czechia.

## Structural choice 1 — batched shoots at one venue

Every shoot at the Rozvadov venue. One trip = 1 King's Show + 2-3 Brunato Talks interview-format shoots.

- Crew travel cost amortized: one round-trip from Prague covers 3-4 episodes.
- Lighting setup amortized: in-house studio configurations (long table / theater chairs / interview set) are preset; load-in / load-out happen once per visit.
- Talent availability concentrated: Federico Brunato (King's Resort CEO + Brunato Talks host) blocks one day for 2-3 interviews instead of fragmenting his calendar.
- Visit cadence: ~1 visit per week, sometimes 2 in high-tournament weeks.

## Structural choice 2 — specialist editors per format

- **Senior editor** — long-form YouTube and studio shows.
- **Poker-content specialist** — owns the weekly highlights cut for broadcast.
- **Cameraman-editor hybrid** — covers shoots and short-form cuts.

Specialization compounds. Format conventions internalized = faster edit.

## Structural choice 3 — AI-driven pipeline

### VV Tracker (open, Next.js + Convex)

- Production task tracking with public REST API.
- Audit log on every mutation; soft-delete + restore.
- Same dashboard powers retainer clients and broadcast contracts.

### VVS macOS app (proprietary, Sparkle-distributed)

- Download → compress (avconvert) → analyze with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- AI title testing: 4-6 candidate titles per video, ranked by editor.
- Bilingual caption translation via Gemini Flash (CZ → EN / DE).
- Automated YouTube upload across multiple OAuth-bound channels.

The pipeline is what makes the cadence sustainable.

## The bilingual mutation flow

1. Czech master finalized first (broadcast spec, 1080p25 ProRes 422 HQ).
2. Captions transcribed (AI-assisted, editor-reviewed).
3. Captions translated to English and German via Gemini Flash, reviewed by editor.
4. Native commentator records over gameplay (English, German). Not dubbing — full new commentary tailored per language audience.
5. Mix down per language, export per channel spec, upload via VVS app.

## What's NOT in the pipeline

- No agency PM hierarchy. The founder handles client comms; specialists own their edits.
- No pitch-deck cycles per episode. Format is recurring; concept lock happens once per format.
- No revision-by-committee. Two revision rounds for long-form, one for shorts. Period.
- No external transcription / translation services. Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini Flash run inside VVS.

## Where the cadence breaks

- **Tournament schedule shocks** — King's Resort high-stakes tournaments can run 3-4 days; collisions with shoots cost episodes.
- **Talent availability** — Federico Brunato's calendar is the bottleneck for Brunato Talks.
- **Editor burnout** — the poker-specialist queue is the single point of failure. Cross-training a second editor is a 2026 priority.
- **Sparkle ship overhead** — shipping VVS updates costs crew time.

## Could a smaller agency do this?

Yes — with three constraints:
1. Stable single venue (King's Resort provides this in Rozvadov).
2. Specialist editors per format.
3. AI-driven pipeline that compresses transcript / translation / titling time by 50%+.

Below 4 people the cadence breaks; above 10 people the agency stops being creative-led.

## Citation

Vertical Visuals, "How a Prague Agency Ships 2 TV Episodes Per Week", https://www.verticalvisuals.cz/reports/how-prague-agency-ships-2-tv-episodes-per-week

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