NHL Network Fires Up Three Studios, Four Control Rooms to Host Virtual 2021 NHL Draft
It’s been an awfully busy week for the National Hockey League. More
OBS Takes UHD/HDR, Cloud, AI and 5G to New Heights at Tokyo Games
The pandemic may have caused the OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Services) team to pause its efforts but it didn’t pause a focus on innovation as the Tokyo Olympics will long be remembered as the launching point of some major technological efforts. Top industry trends like UHD, HDR, spatial audio, cloud services, AI, and 5G will all […] More
Tokyo Olympics: Six Cool Innovations To Help Viewers Understand The Games in New Ways
Every Olympics provides the team at OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Services) an opportunity to take advantage of new technologies and give the production teams new storytelling tools that can help viewers understand various sports in a deeper way. The Tokyo Games are no different. Here are some of the top innovations to look for: More
TVU Networks Gets Broadcasters Ready for Tokyo Olympics
TVU Networks, the market and technology leader in cloud and IP-based live video solutions, announced its extensive support of new and existing customers on site at the Summer Games, even before the event’s official start. From last-minute mobile transmitters, to live pool feeds, to free use of TVU Anywhere for athlete interviews, to on-site studio […] More
NBC Sports To Generate Closed Captioning, Audio Description, Web Content for Tokyo Olympics, Paralympics
NBC Olympics will provide more accessibility to its coverage of this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games than ever before, giving viewers of all abilities the opportunity to enjoy the excitement of the Games through closed captioning, audio description, and digital content accessibility. More
Telemetrics Robos To Capture Underwater Photos at Tokyo Games
A unique underwater camera system designed and built by Telemetrics will be deployed by the Associated Press at this year’s major sporting event in Tokyo to capture still images of the swimmers and divers as they hit the water and swim up from the bottom of the pool during the Swimming, Diving and Synchronized Swimming […] More
Lawo mc² Consoles Power Venue Sound for Concert de Paris on Bastille Day
All of France marks the beginning of the modern French Nation each year on July 14, with events taking place all over the country. Lawo mixing consoles provided the highest possible audio quality for the traditional Concert de Paris taking place on the Champs du Mars at the foot of the Eiffel Tower – Lawo’s […] More
Tokyo Olympics: OBS Chief Content Officer Mark Wallace on Storytelling Technology
SVG’s coverage of the production of the Tokyo Olympics begins in earnest this week and we kick things off with a series of OBS executive interviews that have been provided by OBS to the media (our team will be on site next week and will interview them in the coming weeks). Below is an interview […] More
NEP Group and Aurora Media Worldwide Deliver Visceral Sound for Extreme E
First taking place in drought-struck AlUla, Saudi Arabia, then the sea-threatened Lac Rose area in Senegal, the next race will be in August on sandbars in front of the retreating Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq in Greenland. Bringing the audio of the races and these threatened environments to life is a team of audio experts from […] More
How the BBC Designed UHD HDR for Euro 2020: Islands in the Sun
The last few weeks have been busy with the UEFA European Football Championships. Viewers may have noticed our two major studio complexes in MediaCity in Salford and Wembley Stadium in London as well as a smaller studio in Glasgow. I visited MediaCity and Wembley Stadium to help with ultra-high definition (UHD) high dynamic range (HDR) […] More