NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery (TAD) – which averages minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital – for the 15 nights of the 2016 Rio Olympics averaged 27.5 million viewers. That ranks as the second-highest average audience on record for the primetime competition coverage for any non-domestic Summer Games, trailing only the 2012 London Olympics […] More
The Brazilian Olympics fan had no lack of choices when it came to deciding how to tune in for Brazil’s exciting win over Germany in men’s Olympic football and virtually every other sport as Globosat not only broadcast the action on its over-the-air service but also its SporTV cable channel and 16 total channels. And […] More
The Brazilian Olympics fan had no lack of choices when it came to deciding how to tune in for Brazil’s exciting win over Germany in men’s Olympic football and virtually every other sport. Brazilian TV provider Globosat broadcast the action not only on its over-the-air service but also on its SporTV cable channel, for a total 16 […] More
For the ninth straight Olympics SMT is once again on hand within the NBC Olympic operations at an IBC, once again providing real-time data and timing information that helps enhance the production via on-air graphics, scheduling, and searches for content in the media asset management system. Stass Iordanov, SMT senior IT manager, says SMT has […] More
For the ninth straight Olympics, SMT is on hand within the NBC Olympics operations at an IBC, once again providing real-time data and timing information that helps enhance the production via on-air graphics, scheduling, and searches for content in the media-asset–management (MAM) system. According to Stass Iordanov, senior IT manager, SMT, the company has a team […] More
Russia’s Match TV, an over-the-air public sports channel, was launched last November and while it may be a rookie when it comes to an Olympic Games the production team of 130 people have managed to overcome a number of obstacles to deliver coverage that has more than satisfied Borislav Volodin, Match TV COO and head […] More
Having launched last November, Russia’s Match TV over-the-air public sports channel may be a rookie when it comes to an Olympic Games, its production team of 130 people has managed to overcome a number of obstacles to deliver coverage that has more than satisfied Borislav Volodin, COO/head of Olympics production, Match TV. “I’m happy with the […] More
China’s public broadcasting sports network, CCTV, is on site at the Rio games with a team of nearly 400 people that are creating 19 hours of content locally that is matched up with five hours of content created in Beijing. That double punch gives Chinese viewers 24/7 coverage of the games on TV as well […] More
Viasat Sweden’s presence in Rio includes 80 people, with nearly 30 of them reporters and talent. “Overall everything went well although some of our athletes did not do as well as we hoped,” says Joakim Ekstrand, Viasat Sweden, Olympics, production manager. Mikael Krantz, NEP Sweden, technical producer, is on hand overseeing the technical operations (NEP […] More
China’s public-broadcasting sports network, CCTV, is onsite at the Rio Games with a team of nearly 400 people creating 19 hours of content locally that is matched up with five hours of content created in Beijing. That double punch gives Chinese viewers 24/7 coverage of the Games on TV as well as content delivered via […] More
