Audio innovations help Chess.com checkmate cheating
Cheating at chess is nothing new. One of the first such instances in modern chess competition took place in 1980 when a Bell Laboratories technician snuck its newest prototype ‘Belle’ […] More
Recent Posts by Dan Daley, Audio Editor
IBC 2024 Preview: Audio Vendors To Emphasize Updates and Upgrades
The International Broadcasting Convention (Amsterdam RAI, Sept. 13-16) is the European counterpart of the NAB Show in Las Vegas every April. In both shows, product introductions tend to be iterative […] More
NFL in Europe: It’s all about the crowd sound
London calling — again. After besting the Atlanta Falcons on 1 October at Wembley Stadium on ESPN, the Jacksonville Jaguars defeated the Buffalo Bills a week later at Tottenham Hotspur […] More
NAB 2023: IP, immersive, and streaming audio are here; AI is on the horizon
The 2023 NAB Show last week marked the 100th anniversary of broadcasting’s biggest event — and set the tone for the next century of technological change. More
FCC denies wireless-microphone makers’ plea for vacant spectrum availability
In an Order on Reconsideration issued on 11 May, the Federal Communications Commission denied a request from microphone-systems manufacturers Sennheiser and Shure to sustain a vacant channel in the TV […] More
MLB and ESPN take player-miking to a new level
Baseball players are just plain chatty. Perhaps it’s the relatively slow pace of the game, or maybe the pitcher is in a groove, and three outfielders find themselves a bit […] More
Tech focus: bodypacks, part 2 – wireless transmitters are smaller than ever, more flexible
Increasingly essential to audio capture for broadcast sports, wireless bodypack transmitters are small, light, flexible and powerful. Here’s a look at some current leading models. Click here for Tech Focus: […] More
Lawo’s Johan Boqvist looks at sports radio’s next century
Radio was broadcast sports’ first electronic medium, and, a little more than 100 years since the first announcers crackled over the airwaves, radio remains a leading media format for sports. […] More
Tech focus: Bodypacks, part 1 – wireless transmitters reflect RF-industry challenges
They’re small and getting smaller. They’re designed to be virtually invisible. They’re light enough to be measured in ounces and grams instead of pounds and kilos. But wireless bodypack transmitters […] More
Sound for the Tokyo Olympics both ‘a challenge and an opportunity’
Listen closely to the sound of the Summer Olympics, because there will be a lot of firsts. For instance, it will be the first Olympics broadcast in 5.4.1 immersive audio, […] More
Olympics audio: A Herculean task for the classic games
On the podcast Transformed by Tech: How The Olympics Stay Cutting Edge, produced by The Podium for NBC Olympics, Karl Malone, director of sound design at NBC Universal, discussed how […] More
Bose Professional provides bespoke audio for Royal Ascot 2021
It’s Downton Abbey meets the Kentucky Derby. Royal Ascot is UK horseracing’s most auspicious event: five days (15-19 June 2021) of pomp, circumstance and actual royals, and it’s been going […] More
Audio Consoles, Part 2 — Remote operation continues to grow
Remote audio-mixing consoles for broadcast are still a relatively rarefied category at the high end of the market, but diversity within the group is increasing, thanks to growing demand for […] More
Audio Consoles, Part 1 — Evolution of IP connectivity, remote access accelerates
There have been two distinct trends in audio console development over the past couple of years: a migration to IP-based connectivity and the remote access of a console core via […] More