The first application of immersive, object-based audio for an Olympics broadcast took place on Aug. 5 during the event’s Opening Ceremony, from the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, using Dolby Labs’ Atmos format. More
The challenge posed by SporTV to broadcast the Rio 2016 Olympic Games resulted in unprecedented coverage aired globally on TV and impressive figures that reflected the success achieved. With 16 commented and narrated channels on Brazilian pay-TV and 56 internet broadcasted channels, more than 4,000 hours were broadcasted. More
Several of the Rio Olympics ceremony videos, including the opening ceremony video for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, were created by Brazilian based O2 Filmes using Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio for editing and color grading, as well as Fusion 8 Studio for visual effects. More
The Olympics are often a time of technical trials, not just for new workflows but for new technologies as well. The 2016 Olympics were no exception, and topping the list was an effort by NBC and Sony to cover the Opening Ceremony in 4K HDR on the video side and by NBC and Dolby to […] More
If it’s a major global sports event, there is a pretty good chance NHK is on hand with an 8K production team. This was true at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with a couple of exciting developments: the Japanese broadcaster had two 8K production teams and four production vehicles, two for video and two for audio. More
By Carrie Bowden French national public broadcaster France Télévisions, Brazil TV and Pay-TV market leaders Globo and Globosat, and Norway’s largest commercial television broadcaster TV2 tapped deltatre to power their digital coverage for the Rio 2016 Olympics. In addition, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Scandinavian broadcaster Viasat, and Canadian rightsholder CBC also utilized delatre for their digital […] More
The Sports Video Group team was on hand at the 2016 Rio Olympics for 20 days, and we used much of that time shooting photos and videos behind the scenes of as many events as possible. There are probably very few people (if any) who managed to visit every site and see almost every sport during […] More
The Japanese Consortium (JC) is once again on hand for the Olympic Games, offering Japanese-rights holders a way to streamline production and also leverage each other’s experience, personnel, and talents. More
The 2016 Rio Olympics have come to a close, and the NBC Olympics machine, for the most part, is being dismantled (a much smaller technical presence will remain onsite for the 2016 Paralympics). The end of the Games also begins the evaluation of what worked, how operations can be improved, and how the entire Olympics production […] More
NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery (TAD) – which averages minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital – for the 15 nights of the 2016 Rio Olympics averaged 27.5 million viewers. That ranks as the second-highest average audience on record for the primetime competition coverage for any non-domestic Summer Games, trailing only the 2012 London Olympics […] More
The Brazilian Olympics fan had no lack of choices when it came to deciding how to tune in for Brazil’s exciting win over Germany in men’s Olympic football and virtually every other sport. Brazilian TV provider Globosat broadcast the action not only on its over-the-air service but also on its SporTV cable channel, for a total 16 […] More
For the ninth straight Olympics, SMT is on hand within the NBC Olympics operations at an IBC, once again providing real-time data and timing information that helps enhance the production via on-air graphics, scheduling, and searches for content in the media-asset–management (MAM) system. More
Having launched last November, Russia’s Match TV over-the-air public sports channel may be a rookie when it comes to an Olympic Games, its production team of 130 people has managed to overcome a number of obstacles to deliver coverage that has more than satisfied Borislav Volodin, COO/head of Olympics production, Match TV. More
Jim Eady is a multiple-Emmy Award winner and the founder/CEO of Broadcast Services International, but one of the roles in his career that have always been closest to his heart is working Olympic Games. Having started as an editor for CBC at the Montreal Olympics in 1978, Eady is now senior technical manager for NBC Olympics, working […] More
China’s public-broadcasting sports network, CCTV, is onsite at the Rio Games with a team of nearly 400 people creating 19 hours of content locally that is matched up with five hours of content created in Beijing. That double punch gives Chinese viewers 24/7 coverage of the Games on TV as well as content delivered via […] More
