Four Viz Engine rendering and real-time compositing tools from Vizrt are being used to enhance TV Azteca’s graphics, as well as for integrated social media capabilities, including its Tweet Wall. With Viz Engine, social media data is incorporated into the graphics workflow, using TV Azteca’s in-house data analysis harvest tool integrated with the Vizrt Social […] More
German national public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have been relaying live coverage from Brazil since 12 June. Accompanying TV pictures from the rooftop World Cup studio at the Copacabana are shared by both channels, and offer views across Rio de Janeiro with the beach and landscape in the background. For the first time, the broadcast […] More
As the second week of Wimbledon got into its stride, ESPN’s director of remote production operations, Terry Brady, and coordinating technical manager Chris Strong spoke to SVG Europe about small […] More
GloboSat’s newly-built TV OB truck is producing live broadcasts from World Cup matches played in the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The vehicle, which was completed in time for this year’s event, is Brazil’s first 4K OB truck and incorporates Lawo audio equipment and Ravenna IP networking technology. At the heart of the audio […] More
The Professional Footballer’s Association – which is the trade union for professional association footballers in England and Wales – commenced its celebrations of this year’s World Cup by hosting a charity dinner at London’s Riverbank Park Plaza. Sennheiser UK, the PFA’s official audio supplier, provided a Digital 9000 Series wireless microphone system for an evening […] More
It might have entailed “a lot of hard work by a lot of people”, but the quality of the broadcast audio being delivered from Brazil at the moment confirms that the Herculean effort was entirely justified. In the second of a two-part interview, HBS’ senior engineering manager Christian Gobbel highlights the various elements – from […] More
In the first of two audio-specific interviews, HBS’ senior engineering manager Christian Gobbel discusses the inaugural implementation at the World Cup of EBU Loudness Recommendation R128, which informs broadcasters how to measure and normalise audio using loudness meters instead of peak meters, as had previously been standard practice. Essentially recommending the normalisation of audio at […] More
A little under two years since announcing its partnership, NEP’s collaboration with Casablanca Online is reaching its highest profile yet with OB production and transmission delivery at the World Cup, which takes place in Brazil through until 13 July. As part of its agreement, signed in October 2013, NEP developed a new HD OB truck […] More
Supplied by distribution partner Teleponto, multiple Allen & Heath consoles are being used at several stadiums, in various remote broadcast trucks, and in the master control rooms. Fox Sports Brazil, a key broadcaster of the games, is using a GLD-80 digital mixer connected via Dante to three Lawo consoles and three RTS matrixes for broadcasts […] More
São Paulo production company SP Telefilm is providing broadcast services to Mexico’s TV Azteca to broadcast the games of the Mexican national team in Brazil during the FIFA 2014 World Cup and is using live production solutions from Grass Valley. SP Telefilm, referred to the project by International Media Services Inc., is using its HD […] More
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