By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 3:09 pm
You never forget your first time, and, at these Games, that’s true for the Olympic Channel. Launched immediately after completion of the Rio Summer Games in 2016, the Olympic Channel […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 10:17 am
The Winter Olympics are rolling to a close, but SVG is still on the scene, covering all the video-production and tech happenings in PyeongChang, South Korea. SVG is bringing you […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 9:29 am
It has been a busy few weeks for the folks at Canon U.S.A. (and beyond) at the PyeongChang Games. Support personnel and technical facilities are on hand not only to […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 8:05 pm
If you listen to this year’s coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics, odds are you will hear a change from past years’ effort. OBS has taken steps on the production […]
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By SVG Staff | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 2:16 pm
NBC Sports Digital’s presentation of the PyeongChang Olympics eclipsed the full 2014 Sochi Games in live streaming minutes just five days into the competition and has continued to reach milestones. […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 9:12 am
France Télévisions has a team of 130 people in PyeonChang working closely with a team of about 70 in Paris to deliver Olympic content to viewers on France 2 and France […]
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By Carrie Bowden | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 9:05 am
The Alpensia Sliding Centre is home to some of the Olympics’ most dangerous sports: luge, skeleton, and bobsled. The lightning-fast action on the course requires split-second reflexes on the part […]
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By Carrie Bowden | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 8:55 am
The Alpine events got off to a slow start at the PyeongChang Olympics, but, once the winds died down, the action returned to the hills. One of the highlights was […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 8:33 am
Every Olympics challenges a venue-operations team in new and unique ways: cultural differences, language differences, and problem-solving philosophy can change drastically from one Games to the next. In PyeongChang, VP, […]
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By Carrie Bowden | Monday, February 19, 2018 - 8:19 pm
When it comes to the Olympics, no venue is busier than the Gangnueng Curling Centre, located in Gangneung Olympic Park. Over the course of the Olympics, it is the only […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, February 19, 2018 - 6:09 am
YLE, the Finnish national broadcasting company, is on hand for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics with an operation that is very similar to its 2016 edition with one big exception: the […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Sunday, February 18, 2018 - 1:28 am
NBC Olympics’ operations for the PyeongChang Olympics span the globe. The production team in PyeongChang is complemented by a similar team at the Stamford, CT, facility, where it is hard […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Sunday, February 18, 2018 - 1:20 am
When the 2016 Rio Games came to an end, it was unclear whether ARD and ZDF, the two national German broadcasters that combine efforts on the Olympics, would be at […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 8:43 am
With Canadian broadcaster CBC, at the Olympics, you always get a 2-for-1 package. With both English- and French-speaking audiences to serve back home, CBC’s facilities at the IBC in PyeongChang […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 2:22 am
OBS and NHK are once again working together to create 8K content at an Olympic Games, but, this year, for the first time ever, HDR is a big part of […]
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