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
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, production manager, Olympics, Viasat Sweden. Mikael Krantz,, technical producer, NEP Sweden, is on hand overseeing the technical operations (NEP […] More
The 2016 Rio Olympics will be remembered around the globe as the first truly digital Olympics and the U.S. is no exception as through August 18 viewers in the U.S. had stream 2.25 billion live minutes of content, more than 750 million minutes ahead of the combined total of all prior Olympics. What’s driving the […] More
The 2016 Rio Olympics will be remembered around the globe as the first truly digital Olympics, and the U.S. is part of that: through Aug. 18, viewers in the U.S. had streamed 2.25 billion minutes of live content, more than 750 million minutes ahead of the combined total of all prior Olympics. What’s driving the growth? […] More
RAI, Italy’s national broadcaster, is on hand at the Rio Olympics with an operation that differs from many other broadcasters as the goal is to provide a completely produced signal from the IBC for three broadcast channels that are on air 24/7 back home. “We thought about using the OBS Multichannel Distribution Service (MDS) but […] More
RAI, Italy’s national broadcaster, is on hand at the Rio Olympics with an operation that differs from many other broadcasters as the goal is to provide a completely produced signal from the IBC for three broadcast channels that are on air 24/7 back home. “We thought about using the OBS Multichannel Distribution Service (MDS) but […] More
RAI, Italy’s national broadcaster, is on hand at the Rio Olympics with an operation that differs from many other broadcasters’: its goal is to provide a completely produced signal from the IBC for three broadcast channels on-air 24/7 back home. “We thought about using the OBS Multichannel Distribution Service (MDS), but it is very expensive, and […] More
YLE Finland’s presence at the Rio Olympics is making the most of IP technologies and remote production as Kaj Flood, YLE, senior technical advisor, says that the goal is to continue to pass more production control back to the team in Finland. “We’ve expanded the use of remote production so that all we are […] More
This is Part 1 of SVG’s four-part series on NBC Olympics’ at-home operation in Stamford, CT. Make sure to check out Part 2, a look at the studios and control rooms; Part 3, on the “Off-Tube Factory” commentary operation; and Part 4, on the Streaming Factory setup. The Rio 2016 Games mark NBC Olympics’ largest “at-home” […] More
This is Part 2 of SVG’s four-part series on NBC Olympics’ at-home operation in Stamford, CT. Make sure to check out Part 1, an overview of the operation as a whole; Part 3, focused on the “Off-Tube Factory” commentary operation; and Part 4, on the Streaming Factory setup. NBC Olympics’ epic at-home–production effort encapsulates eight […] More
