For BC Place in Vancouver, its mission didn’t end at hosting the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. After fulfilling its role as Olympic Stadium in February 2010, the building was shuttered for massive renovations that April. Less than a year and a half later, the 28-year-old venue on the north side […] More
For NBC Sports Director of Graphics Phil Pauly and his staff of more than 35 in Vancouver, the 2010 Winter Olympics will be remembered as a games where the speed of the athletes on the ice and hills was only matched by the ability to turnaround graphics using tools like Adobe After Effects, Chyron Hyper […] More
This weekend will mark the end of the 2010 Winter Games and for many staffers at NBC Olympics it marks the end of a two-year planning process that will soon give way to the beginning of another two-year planning process: gearing up for the 2010 Summer Games in London, UK. For Errol Foremaster, NBC Olympics, […] More
Each morning here at 7:30, inside a compound at the International Broadcasting Center roughly the size of Belarus, NBC Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol gathers a small flock of his key lieutenants to discuss contingency plans and every possible scenario for that day’s coverage. Along with everything else on the agenda for the tired executives and […] More
Clear-Com Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, proudly announces that its Hybrid Network was chosen as the intercom system for the opening and closing ceremonies and other events of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The P.A. People, a premier AV supplier and integrator managing the ceremonies’ entire communications setup, selected the Hybrid Network for […] More
NBC Olympics is in full multi-screen mode, delivering video everywhere from computer screens, mobile devices, iTunes, VOD, and much, much more. And sitting at the core of that content creation process is the NBC Olympic Highlights Factory, a unit that has cranked out more than 1,000 story and highlight packages in the first 10 days […] More
The BBC has a small workforce of 70 staffers here in Vancouver for the Winter Games that is working closely with BBC staff in London. Charlie Cope, BBC Sport, technical executive, says the time difference between London and Vancouver, 8 hours, is part of the reason for the smaller staff as the on-location crew is […] More
The 2010 Winter Olympics are giving fans of Surround Sound a reason to fire up their Surround Sound system as it makes the first ever Winter Games to be produced and broadcast with 5.1-channel audio. And for Bob Dixon, NBC Olympics, director of sound design, it’s a memorable one. “This Olympics sounds the best of […] More
Ski jumping coverage at the Winter Olympics has been a veritable specialty camera feast with 28 cameras that include a mini-blimp camera, a largere tethered blimp camera, a Towercam, a Railcam, and a helicopter feed. Three super slo mo systems and a high-speed camera system are also part of the camer complement. For Liu Rong, […] More
Dennis Baxter, sound designer for Olympic Broadcast Services, is knee deep in delivering the first-ever Winter Games to feature discrete 5.1 Surround Sound and stereo audio signals. For U.S. viewers that probably came home most crystal clear through during Sunday’s men’s ice hockey game between the U.S. and Canada. “In hockey we’re trying to accurately […] More
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