Case Study
The Challenge: 70+ Hours to Deliver. Six Months. No Room to Hire.
In June 2022, Lion Television NYC faced a bottleneck few teams could survive: 70+ hours of unscripted TV due by year-end—starting from a standstill in June. There was no central tracking, no workflow system, and no time (or budget) to hire more staff.
All approvals, milestones, and assets ran through email threads and spreadsheets.
Team at max capacity; burnout rising.
Conventional solution: Hire at least 2 more post supervisors and 6–9 AEs just to keep up.
Lion needed a new way—immediately.
The Solution: SAMEpg—Provisioned Clarity, No Extra Headcount
SAMEpg was deployed as a full-service post ops layer, not a tool.
Clarity Layer Provisioned: Every episode, milestone, and deliverable tracked—no new tools, no retraining.
Automated Workflows: Cut approvals, media shipments, timecards, onboarding, and asset delivery—all surfaced, ticketed, and followed up by SAMEpg.
Living Knowledge Base: Every process documented and accessible, enabling remote teams and new hires to ramp up instantly.
The ROI: $2.7 Million+ Kept On Screen. 3x Team Output. Deadline Hit.
This wasn’t just improved process—it was a bottom-line transformation:
$2,700,000+ budget protected: Avoided the need to hire additional post sups and AEs, plus saved on overtime, overages, and late penalties.
3x output per staff member: SAMEpg enabled the existing team to deliver a slate that would normally require two to three times more headcount.
1,000+ hours recovered: Automation and structured handoffs eliminated manual chases, email ping-pong, and overtime fire drills.
70+ hours of finished programming delivered, on time and under budget—starting from zero with only six months on the clock.
Remote teams, fully enabled: The knowledge base put every policy, workflow, and deliverable in one place—speeding onboarding and ensuring consistency.
Performance Disclosure: All figures are drawn from a single engagement that required roughly six months to stand up a fully custom SAMEpg post-services layer; during that period our modeling—based on actual contract length and conservative, industry-standard staffing assumptions for assistant editors, post supervisors, color, mix, and delivery—shows more than $2.7 million in budget protected versus hiring comparably sized in-house teams, over 1,000 staff-hours saved through workflow automations and ticketed processes, and approximately 70 discrete unscripted-episode deliverables across multiple shows completed within the same six-month window. Future clients who opt into our reusable component library (pre-built ticketing, milestone, and asset-tracking modules) typically activate far faster, as no ground-up schema build is required.