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.
NBC Sports is once again onsite at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for coverage of Olympic tennis, and NEP Visions is once again supplying OB units for NBC’s presence at the home of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. More
The London Olympics opening ceremony last Friday proved to be a source of pride for Anglophiles the world over, as the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), production company Done and Dusted, CTV Outside Broadcasts, and a cast of thousands (plus Queen Elizabeth) hit all the right notes and all the right technical […] More
Wandering the floors of the IBC one can see nearly every conceivable workflow for sport content creation and distribution in HD. But there are still a couple of networks that are working in SD and recording on tape, although that doesn’t mean that was the plan. Case in point? Croatia’s Hrvatska Radiotelvizija (HRT), a network […] More
The Aquatics Center has been a central focus of NBC Olympic operations since the games began. And once again CTV OB is helping NBC tell the story of the U.S. swimming and diving teams the way it wants to, with OB9 and its support unit on hand alongside cabins with six Avid edit rooms, a […] More
Friday’s opening ceremonies turned out to be every bit as compelling as the 2008 Beijing ceremony, thanks to an artistic vision courtesy of Danny Boyle. But, for TV-technology geeks, the […] More
On the first full day of Olympic competition and broadcasters at the IBC were busy tweaking workflows, ensuring all systems were go, and adjusting as needed. And adjusting right along […] More
Vincenzo Flores, head of production for Sky Italy sports channels, took time out of his busy schedule yesterday to chat with SVG about the massive effort Sky Italy is putting into a service that will deliver a wealth of Olympic content to viewers, thanks to a massive fibre pipe to Milan, a mosaic of 12 […] More
It’s the first full day of Olympic competition, and broadcasters at the IBC are busy tweaking workflows, ensuring that all systems are go and adjusting as needed. And adjusting right along are the equipment suppliers, most notably EVS, whose presence within the IBC includes not only 33 XT3 replay servers in use by Olympic Broadcasting […] More
Finnish broadcaster YLE experimented with the concept of producing the majority of its content from home during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. But this year, it has returned to the IBC, with content for its main Olympics channel produced on site in London. “In 2010, we discovered we didn’t like the idea of having the […] More
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is one of Adobe’s first broadcast partners to deploy key components of Adobe’s Project Primetime, using it to deliver live video streams and video-on-demand (VOD) content of the London Games across the Web and all major device types. Adobe describes Project Primetime as the industry’s first fully integrated video-technology platform […] More
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