Brevity, provider of transcoding and transport services based in New York City, has elected Timothy O’Brien as President and CEO. O’Brien will succeed Jacob Bronstein, one of Brevity’s original two […] More
When the amount of content being produced for American viewers tops the 5,000 hour mark (more than twice the amount produced for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics) it’s pretty sure that workloads and output will double and then some. The NBC Olympics graphics team is no exception. “In Beijing we used about 70 TBs of storage […] More
The London Olympics aren’t even over yet, and Roger Mosey, currently the BBC’s director of London 2012, already has his next job lined up. The BBC has appointed him acting […] More
The London Olympics mark the third time that the Olympics have been produced in 5.1 Surround Sound and, in many respects, it appears that the third time is the charm. Bob Dixon, NBC Olympics, director of Sound Design & Communications, says that the quality of the audio is the best yet, reporting that the quality […] More
NBC Olympics operations and facilities at the IBC in London look and feel very similar to its operations in both Vancouver and Beijing. But underneath the hood, one will find a variety of new technologies that have helped the network make the move to completely file-based operations and, thanks to an IP-based routing and networking […] More
France Télévisions Olympic coverage from the IBC is once again working closely with the France Télévisions broadcast and production operations in Paris, ensuring that more than 40 feeds, including a mix of OBS video and audio feeds from the events as well as coverage from mixed zones and studios around London, are transported back to […] More
There are plenty of examples within the Olympic IBC of broadcasters tying their IBC facilities more closely to their home broadcast facilities but there may be no better example of possible future workflows than Swedish public broadcaster SVT. With the help of Net Insight’s Nimbra JPEG 2000 encoders and decoders, at STM4 connection between a […] More
NBC Sports is once again onsite at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for coverage of Olympic tennis, and NEP Visions is once again supplying OB units for NBC’s presence at the home of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. “It feels very similar,” says David Storey, who is venue technical manager for NBC Olympics tennis […] More
The London Olympics opening ceremony last Friday proved to be a source of pride for Anglophiles the world over, as the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), production company Done and Dusted, CTV Outside Broadcasts, and a cast of thousands (plus Queen Elizabeth) hit all the right notes and all the right technical […] More
Wandering the floors of the IBC one can see nearly every conceivable workflow for sport content creation and distribution in HD. But there are still a couple of networks that are working in SD and recording on tape, although that doesn’t mean that was the plan. Case in point? Croatia’s Hrvatska Radiotelvizija (HRT), a network […] More
