NBC Olympics Taps SMT to Drive Real-Time Graphics, Timing

SMT will provide real-time data presentation services and results and timing interfaces for NBC Olympics later this summer when the Tokyo Olympics are held from July 23 to August 8. For the Tokyo Olympic Games, SMT will deliver TV graphics interfaces for NBC Olympics’ graphics systems in its coverage of golf, gymnastics, swimming, diving and synchronized diving, beach volleyball and track & field. In addition, for all in-studio shows, SMT will provide leaderboard, bracket and medal standings graphics for every sport.

SMT will once again play a key role at NBC Olympics.

“The interpretation and integration of the results data from the Olympic Games is one of the most complex and diverse of all sporting events around the world,” says Dan Robertson, VP NBC Olympics IT. “To be able to digest, format, and replay that data for both real-time and post-production workflows allow our NBC Olympics production team the ability to do what they do best: tell the stories and provide insight into amazing accomplishments of world class athletes. SMT helps us tell those stories across both linear and digital products with creative and innovative approaches.”

SMT’s Point-in-Time software system will integrate live results data from Swiss Timing to provide NBC Olympics’ commentators the ability to locate a specific “point in time” of a competition in both live and recorded coverage. In addition, SMT’s Point-in-Time software graphically shows key events on a unified timeline so that NBC Olympics’ talent can quickly see, for example, how a race began, when a lead changed, or where an athlete’s performance improved. SMT’s Point-inTime software tool enhances NBC Olympics’ storytelling capacity, giving on-air talent an even greater ability to highlight the triumphs and defeats that are intrinsic when witnessing the extraordinary level of competition in the Olympic Games.

“Our goal at SMT is to provide the highest level of expertise, experience, and results reporting technology for NBC Olympics’ production of the Tokyo Olympics, as we have done since the Sydney in 2000,” says Gerard J. Hall, founder and CEO, SMT. “We have put forth a tremendous amount of testing and behind-thescenes work, and are privileged to be entrusted to execute another unmatched NBC Olympics production.”

SMT’s partnership with NBC Olympics began with the 2000 Sydney Games and over the course of 20 years, has included live graphics interfaces, live web content creation, a variety of live graphic display presentations as well as NBC Olympics’ digital asset management interface that helped the network receive Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Team Technical Remote,” following the 2008 and 2016 Games.