Live and on-demand sports streaming service DAZN is out to make boxing both deeply engaging and a high point for online distribution. In the effort, the service is fielding an array of high-tech tools, including deploying both a JitaCam 360-degree jib camera and a DynamiCam three-axis cable-cam system at the Canelo Alvarez–Daniel Jacobs bout at […] More
The one sound that the broadcast audio might not have captured at Saturday’s Kentucky Derby was the one you couldn’t hear: the bated breath with which a crowd of more than 150,000 racegoers at Churchill Downs awaited the ruling of three track stewards as to which horse and rider actually won the sport’s single biggest […] More
The preliminary numbers for the 2019 NAB Show are in, and this year’s 91,460 registration is close to last year’s 92,912 final attendance. However, when it comes to audio, it was a very different story. This year’s show was the first on a landscape remade by a combination of RF reallocation and the accelerated migration […] More
The preliminary numbers for the 2019 NAB Show are in, and this year’s 91,460 registration is close to last year’s 92,912 final attendance. However, when it comes to audio, it was a very different story. This year’s show was the first on a landscape remade by a combination of RF reallocation and the accelerated migration […] More
As always, each NAB Show is an opportunity for manufacturers to exhibit new products and platforms to the broadcast industry, and this year’s expo will continue that. However, as broadcast audio moves deeper into an IP/IT paradigm, those new releases increasingly take the form of software and are networked. Calrec Audio Calrec Audio (Booth C7408) […] More
As sports venues evolve to counter the increasingly immersive broadcast experience that fans get at home, English football has fired its latest salvo in the battle: the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. ‘The Tottenham Experience’ (the venue has not yet been officially named) begins well before football fans reach the gate. The exterior of the facility boasts […] More
CBS Sports is planning its biggest audio game ever for Super Bowl LIII with an estimated 180 microphones set to be deployed. The 3 February game at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will have microphones across three studio sets on the concourse, the field, and the Game Day Fan Plaza. Included will be additional parabolic and other […] More
The trade event that began in 1902 and was held at the YMCA in Baltimore as an expo for pianos has rebranded itself as the world’s largest trade-only event for the music-products, pro-audio, and event-tech industry. In doing so, the Winter NAMM Show (24-27 January, Anaheim, CA, Convention Center) has elbowed its way into product […] More
Sennheiser has developed a prototype device for capturing sports sound effects cleanly and discretely enough to meet the needs of object-based broadcast formats. Referred to generically as the Sports Microphone Array, the system, which is currently nearing a beta stage, consists of a circular array of 31 MKH8070 shotgun microphones. The purpose of the array […] More
The Canadian Football League’s season came to an end late November when the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 27-16 in the 106th Grey Cup in Edmonton, AB’s Commonwealth Stadium, broadcast nationally in Canada on TSN. However, what Canadian football fans had enjoyed during one game a week all season was missing: miking on each team’s […] More
