Waves Audio has announced support for NDI with the Cloud MX audio mixer. Broadcast and media production teams can now add Waves’ Cloud MX audio mixer directly in the cloud workflow with easy routing of audio inputs and outputs via NDI. “We adopted NDI technology as it is a proven system for professional cloud production environments,” said […] More
Host Broadcast Services (HBS) is in the throes of its second year at Roland-Garros working with partner, Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), which took over as host broadcaster for the Grand Slam last year. While many of the major innovations came in 2021 as the FFT revamped its production, there have been a few interesting […] More
The deadline for SVG Europe’s Sports TV Awards 2022, sponsored by Canon, has been extended to Tuesday 14 June at 11.59 (UK time), due to a number of requests for more time to submit and prepare entries. The Sports TV Awards will recognise and honour the outstanding companies, teams and individuals that pushed sports broadcasting […] More
Baseball players are just plain chatty. Perhaps it’s the relatively slow pace of the game, or maybe the pitcher is in a groove, and three outfielders find themselves a bit bored by the third inning. In any event, that’s working in ESPN’s favour this season: the broadcaster is wiring athletes for sound at a new […] More
We caught up with UK-based Louise Willcox, freelance sound supervisor at DWR Associates, a business aimed at solving audio and communications problems for the broadcast and business world run by Willcox and her husband. We spoke about the ins and outs of her career, which has taken her from mixing live sports coverage to the […] More
Sky sound consultant and senior systems engineer, Martin Black, has spent more than four decades shaping the way we listen to television. Black has always been focused on how things sound; even now, he still sings in a choir. Graduating from the University of Surrey with a B.Mus Tonmeister degree, Black began his career in […] More
EMG UK recently produced the Tyson Fury versus Dillian Whyte fight at Wembley Stadium, London, for BT Sport in which the new Sony HDC-F5500 camera had its world-first debut. The camera had its inaugural live sporting event outing on 23 April as part of a UHD HDR production. Says Martyn Edwards, project director for the […] More
Genelec has made configuring and managing its Smart Active Monitoring systems even more user-friendly with the introduction of its GLM 4.2 loudspeaker manager software and the new 9301B multichannel AES/EBU interface. These two additions to the range allow the creation of scalable immersive monitoring systems up to 16 channels, using one or more bass-managed subwoofers, […] More
Broadcast Solutions Nordic has installed a large scale Live Media System at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, the host venue for this year’s Ice Hockey World Championships The Helsinki-based firm was responsible for developing and implementing the live broadcast technology which has, at its heart, a master control room for managing, collecting, editing, and […] More
I’m sitting in the Audio Control Room (ACR) in the Dorna Sports compound at the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto in Andalusia, watching as the bikes of the MotoGP race around the multiview screens, and experiencing the thunder and zoom of their engines in 5.1 audio around the small mobile trailer. In charge of this immersive […] More
