Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound told USA Today Sports that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed, likely to 2021, with the details to be worked out in the next four weeks. More
Can Alibaba and Intel take their respective technologies, bring them together, and offer a whole new level of statistical analysis and understanding to sports fans and athletes? That’s the hope of the two companies, which has announced a new initiative that provides a key pillar to Alibaba’s Sports Brain project for the Olympics and could […] More
Over the past year, Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing division of the colossal Chinese conglomerate, has made growing its sports portfolio a major priority. This push into the sports market has been headlined in the past six months by major cloud-services deals with the IOC for the Olympics and FIFA for the World Cup. Meanwhile, Alisports, […] More
Intel has signed a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to join “The Olympic Partner” (TOP) worldwide sponsorship program through 2024. As part of the agreement, Intel will provide technological and content support for the Olympic Broadcasting Services host-broadcaster operations and for Olympic Channel. It will also deliver real-time and on-demand virtual-reality experiences at 16 events, along […] More
The IOC, USOC, and NBCUniversal have unveiled the official launch date of The Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA: Saturday, July 15. Upon launching, the year-round linear cable channel will be available in more than 35 million homes thanks to carriage agreements with Altice, AT&T DirecTV, Comcast, Spectrum, and Verizon. The linear channel will also be also […] More
The Olympic Channel has reached agreements with the governing bodies for bandy, DanceSport, Deaflympics, orienteering, powerboat racing, racquetball, school sport, and underwater sports to collaborate on content for the Olympic Channel. The eight new cooperation agreements bring the number of the global platform’s federation partners to 49. More
With the Sochi Olympics no in the rearview mirror, iStreamPlanet is hosting a free webinar to breakdown the workflow that went into distributing the Games via online and digital platforms.The webinar, called Streaming the Olympics: A Case Study in Moving Media Processing to the Cloud will take place on Tuesday, March 4 at 2 p.m. ET. More
At this week’s CEATEC show in Tokyo, on a panel addressing the rise of 4K and 8K technology, Korean and Japanese broadcasters KBS and NHK gave attendees a rare behind-the-scenes look at preparations for 8K productions at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. More
Digital solutions company DiGiCo has announced Steve Watson, Simon Honywill, and Rob Collins as winners of its Olympics UB MADI competition, which it ran during the Games to celebrate the efforts of the engineers involved, without whom the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies would not have been heard. “As a UK manufacturer, we were delighted […] More
For three weeks prior to the opening of the Summer Games in late July, customer service personnel from PESA, a leading U.S.-based custom design and build manufacturing company for professional audio and video signal distribution, were on site at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in London to support the setup and configuration of its routing switcher […] More
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