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. […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] More
Turner Sports wired up Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and their caddies at Las Vegas’s Shadow Creek Golf Course last Friday for the winner-take-all, $9 million PPV event Capital One’s […] More
Video-Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is in place for this season’s Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Copa do Brasil series. FIFA officially approved the use of VAR for the 2018 World Cup […] More
The sound of National Football League broadcasts has become the sonic gold standard for broadcast sports. The league, which operates one of the world’s leading media outfits, NFL Films, was […] More
Baseball has used novel effects-microphone placements in the past two years for special games. That use — with mics installed at the perimeter of the infield, on bases, and on […] More
A typical NASCAR racer brings about 400 horsepower to the track. A typical NHRA top-fuel dragster comes in at about 11,000 horsepower. The differential in their sonic impact is just […] More
Last week’s NAB 2018 marked a milestone in the broadcast business’s technology narrative. IP signal transport has emerged as the major new pathway for audio and audio control. It was […] More
