Entertaining Canadian viewers is always a dual-front effort: there are your French-language customers (watching on Radio-Canada) and your English-language customers (watching on CBC). That’s the chief reason the CBC/Radio-Canada is again relying heavily on its two major broadcast centers back home in Toronto and Montreal. More
The Olympic Games attracts not only a wide range of nationalities and athletes but also a wide range of broadcasters, some looking forward to a day when 8K HDR is the norm and others simply trying to manage the transition to HDTV. That disparity is why Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) does everything in its power […] More
Carioca Arena 2 (CA2): Judo Judo battles take place at Carioca Arena 2 in the Barra Olympic Park. Judo is a dynamic combat sport that demands both physical prowess and great mental discipline. From a standing position, it involves techniques that allow you to lift and throw your opponent onto their back. On the ground, […] More
Karl Malone, director, sound design, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, is spending plenty of time listening to the Olympic Games and, so far, is more than happy with what he is hearing, not only from his own team but also from the massive team of audio professionals working for OBS to provide an audio bedrock […] More
The 2016 Rio Olympics are proof positive that the social-media revolution is fully upon us, and NBC Olympics is doing its part to ensure that its social-media team makes the most of the Games with efforts on two continents. And, like the athletes themselves, the NBC Olympics team made good use of the Olympic Trials […] More
Canada might be a Winter Games powerhouse, but it loves the Summer Olympics, too. This year, it falls to CBC/Radio-Canada to stream the Games to sports-loving Canucks, and it‘s doing so with a much bigger effort than it delivered in Sochi. More
Broadcast audio at the 2016 Rio Olympics demonstrates the rapid uptake of IP-based audio transport in the industry. Much of that is taking place out of sight, in the domain of intercoms and other back-channel communications. But the efficiencies and cost-effectiveness of IP will be more broadly apparent in the near future. More
When it comes to finding cycling expertise, look no further than the Belgians. The nation’s Olympic-rights holder VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie) has played a major role in OBS’s production of the host-broadcast feed in road-race cycling. More
The Dutch Olympic team has enjoyed a super start to Week 2 here in Rio, and NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting) was fully prepared to cover the celebrations. More
For the first time since 1904, golf has made its triumphant return to the Summer Olympic Games, and NBC Olympics and Golf Channel are giving the sport the royal treatment. Molly Solomon, executive producer for Golf Channel, reflects on the success of the event so far and compares preparations for this tournament with those for a traditional major […] More
Sydney may be 13 hours ahead of the action here in Rio, but that hasn’t stopped Australian rightsholder Seven Network from going all in on its fully live coverage of these Summer Olympic Games. In fact, the Aussies will be the first to tell you, it’s just life as a supporter of sport. More
TV2 Norway has 68 people onsite in Rio, working out of a production area in the IBC as well as at a studio in Olympic Park, a standup position right outside that studio, and a third standup position atop the TV Tower in the middle of Olympic Park. Helping out with ENG work around the […] More
SVG is on the scene in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics and doing our best to visit as many venues as possible to document some of the specialty cameras, production professionals, and more that are making this year’s Games a compelling showcase of Olympic legends and rising stars. And we mean the production professionals who make […] More
Viewership for NBC’s Sunday night broadcast featuring Usain Bolt’s historic victory in the 100 meters, peaked at 34.9 million between 9:15-9:30 p.m. ET/PT, as Bolt sprinted to his third-consecutive 100-meter Olympic gold. Sunday’s primetime Rio Olympics coverage posted a Total Audience Delivery (which accounts for average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital) average of 28.1 […] More
Sky New Zealand’s team of 26 production professionals is tapping into the same technical backbone it used for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last year, ensuring that a production team of more than 200 back home has everything it needs to keep its Olympic fans happy and tied into the action. That technical backbone is provided […] More
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