Switzerland’s SRG SSR, the joint central production and broadcasting association for the nation, is using the 2016 Rio Olympics to take its remote-production efforts to another level from the 2014 Sochi Olympics. In 2014, an SRG SSR team controlled studio cameras in Olympic Park from the International Broadcast Center (IBC). For this Games, two studios […] More
If you’re working at the Olympic Games and happen to be free on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m., please join SVG and Riedel at Riedel’s Friends of the Games Lounge located at Arpoador Rock on the ground floor below the ORF and Swiss Broadcasting studios. It is located near Ipanema Beach Stand #7. Attendees will […] More
An aerial cable camera system flying over the Barra Olympic Park fell to the ground near the entrance to Arena Carioca 2, causing minor injuries to seven spectators. According to a statement by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the pulling rope for the camera came down at 1:30, and a cherry picker was on its way […] More
The Rio de Janeiro Games mark an important change for Olympic viewing. Although NBC Sports ramps up online efforts every two years, this time, viewers have decided that the online coverage is superior. More
More than in any recent Olympic Games, NBC Olympics is making the host city the star of its creative and production processes here in Rio. Nowhere is that more evident than in the network’s highly robust — and in-house–built — graphics package. More
In an age of shrinking IBC presence, German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF are bucking the trend with a production space in the 2016 Rio Olympics IBC that is about 100 sq. meters larger than its facility in the 2012 London Olympics IBC. More
Victor Sánchez Garcia, technical support director/technical manager, special events, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), is on hand in Rio with a team of 128 people to ensure that Olympic fans in Spain get their fill of the action, even if the time-zone difference is not ideal. More
For NBC Olympics, these Games are about far more than just the operations in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of loggers, editors, producers, and more in numerous geographic locations across two continents are part of the Olympic Games content ecosystem on the NBC family of networks. More
Although France Télévisions has a strong presence in Rio, much of the production work — including production of the main studio at the Olympic Park and integration of graphics within the broadcast signal — takes place in its Paris broadcast center via fiber connection. More
At the end of today, the Olympic Games will have its first Olympic golf champion in more than a century, and NBC Olympics and Golf Channel are giving golf’s return to the Games a double punch of production power with the help of a relatively new flypack from NEP Group that provides two control rooms […] More
Canon’s U.S. and European team are in Brazil, supporting such clients as NBC Olympics, NEP, NHK, Euromedia Group, and HD Resources. One estimate is that there are more than 1,000 Canon broadcast lenses covering the Games. More
The BBC production team at the Rio Olympics is 455 people strong, and, like the Great Britain Olympic team itself, it is trying to make sure it does everything it can to replicate the success of 2012. More
NBC Olympics’ exclusive and unprecedented multiplatform coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics continues to dominate the competition. On Wednesday, NBC Olympics’ live streaming for Rio 2016 topped one billion minutes (1.05 billion) – the first time the threshold has ever been crossed for an Olympics. More
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are now in day six, and, historically, that has meant that the NBC Olympics team is getting into its groove as the sheer number of moving parts at the IBC and the venues settle into place. But this year’s effort has been a bit different, thanks to a combination of planning, […] More
While Rio 2016 Olympics primetime ratings are down compared to London 2012, NBC’s Rio viewership is about much more than just the primetime linear television feed on it’s broadcast network. The network is focusing on it its Total Audience Delivery metric (average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital) in an effort to better reflect its […] More
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