Recent Posts by Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 13:54
At the 2022 NAB Show, Grass Valley is taking visitors to its booth on a journey through the company’s vision of what the future production environment looks like, following video content from acquisition and contribution through to asset management, editing, and playout via GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform). Steve Stubelt, VP of sales, Americas […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 13:44
The Canon US booth at the 2022 NAB Show is loaded with new goodies, including the company’s new flagship field zoom lens for 4K broadcast cameras, the UHD-DIGISUPER 122 AF, as well as a video-first DSLR, the EOS R5 C. At the company’s Central Hall hub, we caught up with National Accounts Sales Director Richard Eilers for […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, February 28, 2022 - 10:08
The esports industry was among the first to get live broadcasts rolling again after the pandemic arrived, but the events have largely been online and without fans. That changes this weekend: ESL Gaming’s Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice event has taken over the Spodek arena for the largest LAN esports event with in-person fans in […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, February 21, 2022 - 09:03
Every Olympic Games has its own set of new and unique challenges, but the onsite operation for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games has faced the unprecedented hurdle of operating in a closed loop. Designed to prevent the spread of COVID, this bubble has made NBC Olympics’ onsite operations even more complex than usual.
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, January 31, 2022 - 15:41
For the first time ever for a Winter Olympics, NBC Sports will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime and Prime Plus shows in certain markets in 4K UHD with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Atmos sound. NBC previously delivered the Tokyo 2020, PyeongChang 2018 and Rio 2016 Summer Games in 4K HDR […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, January 31, 2022 - 12:48
NBC Olympics has been relying on its Sports Production Operations Center (SPOC) in Stamford, CT, more and more with each Games it covers, but the Peacock will take that to a new level for the Beijing 2022 Olympics next month. More than 1,000 crew members and nearly all the on-air talent will be located in […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Monday, November 1, 2021 - 09:14
For more than a decade, Riot Games Esports has helped blaze the trail when it comes to remote-production workflows and centralised-production models. Now Riot is taking it to the next level with plans to launch three remote broadcast centres (RBCs) strategically located around the world to create a “chase-the-sun” broadcast-operations model. The first of these […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 12:07
Today, more live sports productions are in UHD and HDR than ever before, and broadcasters are increasingly keen to produce graphics natively in these high-end formats. At the same time, sports broadcasters have embraced IP-based workflows to enable virtualised and remote production models. With these trends in mind, Vizrt has launched a unified IO sports […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 11:17
NBCUniversal efforts in 4K HDR video and Dolby Atmos audio date to the Rio 2016 Olympics, but the Tokyo Games mark the widest distribution — by far — of live 4K HDR Olympics content to U.S. viewers. Although NBC’s production model to create this content in Tokyo represents a giant leap forward in the evolution of live […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Friday, June 4, 2021 - 09:53
For the first time in its 130-year history, the French Open has gone night-owl. Stade Roland Garros is hosting night sessions at this year’s tournament, and Tennis Channel is bringing all seven nights of evening matches to U.S. audiences as part of its 340 hours of TV coverage during the 15-day event. With the new […]
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