Ken Kerschbaumer has been editorial director of the Sports Video Group since 2005 and has been writing about how sports networks and leagues use video and audio technology to deliver a quality TV experience since 1991. He began his career in 1991 at Television Broadcast magazine before joining Cahners where he was editor of Digital Broadcasting magazine. In 2000 he joined Broadcasting & Cable magazine as Senior Editor of Technology. Seven years later he helped co-found the Sports Video Group with Paul Gallo and Marty Porter.
The London Olympics will mark the end of an era as Bob Dixon, NBC Olympics, director of sound design and communications, will be in the NBC Olympics Listening Room for the last time. During his career Dixon has worked on 12 Olympic games, beginning in 1984 at the Los Angeles Olympics and spending six as […] More
It was not too long ago that the London Olympics seemed destined (even seemingly willed by some) to be a fiasco of mammoth proportions. Traffic would be a disaster throughout. Hotels would be overbooked, with tourists wandering the streets like extras out of a Danny Boyle zombie flick. And, of course, the BBC’s efforts would […] More
As the Chinese gobble up medals, the pressure is on CCTV to ensure that billions (literally) of viewers back home have a TV-viewing experience that matches the level of performance on the field. So, for Wang Dagang, CCTV Olympics general technical coordinator, and a team of 400, the goal is to get the most out […] More
Switzerland’s SRG SSR’s IBC facility is serving out Olympic content to three channels for three distinct regions and languages in Switzerland (a German network in Zurich, French in Geneva, and Italian in Lugano). But its IBC facility is an example of Swiss efficiency as a team of 40 is distributing signals from the EBU to […] More
Athletics action from Olympic Stadium in London is dominating the sport world’s attention this week and for NBC Olympics it calls for a special personal touch. Operating out of an NEP Visions OB unit, the team not only brings in cameras from OBS but also 26 additional cameras. “They are in similar locations or next to […] More
When the amount of content being produced for American viewers tops the 5,000 hour mark (more than twice the amount produced for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics) it’s pretty sure that workloads and output will double and then some. The NBC Olympics graphics team is no exception. “In Beijing we used about 70 TBs of storage […] More
The London Olympics mark the third time that the Olympics have been produced in 5.1 Surround Sound and, in many respects, it appears that the third time is the charm. Bob Dixon, NBC Olympics, director of Sound Design & Communications, says that the quality of the audio is the best yet, reporting that the quality […] More
NBC Olympics operations and facilities at the IBC in London look and feel very similar to its operations in both Vancouver and Beijing. But underneath the hood, one will find a variety of new technologies that have helped the network make the move to completely file-based operations and, thanks to an IP-based routing and networking […] More
France Télévisions Olympic coverage from the IBC is once again working closely with the France Télévisions broadcast and production operations in Paris, ensuring that more than 40 feeds, including a mix of OBS video and audio feeds from the events as well as coverage from mixed zones and studios around London, are transported back to […] More
There are plenty of examples within the Olympic IBC of broadcasters tying their IBC facilities more closely to their home broadcast facilities but there may be no better example of possible future workflows than Swedish public broadcaster SVT. With the help of Net Insight’s Nimbra JPEG 2000 encoders and decoders, at STM4 connection between a […] More
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