Olympic Broadcasting Services’ senior host broadcast producer Helen Borobokas, who led coverage of sliding, freestyle and snowboard events at Livigno Snow Park during the Milano Cortina Games, will be sharing her experiences at Winter Sports Forum 2026, which takes place in Oslo on 26 March.
She’ll be joined by FPV drone experts Jonas Sandell of Above Media and André Theis of Theis Media, both part of the Milano Cortina Games coverage team.
Discussion points will include how FPV drones complement traditional camera plans, expanding creative possibilities while meeting growing audience expectations for proximity, motion and immediacy, the practical challenges of operating these systems, and how the industry can scale FPV deployment as demand for dynamic aerial coverage continues to grow.
Taking place at NEP Europe’s Oslo Broadcast Centre, the Winter Sports Forum – supported by Appear and NEP – will provide an opportunity for leaders from across the sports media and broadcast technology industries to examine how winter sports are being produced, distributed and experienced.
The Milano Cortina Games will feature throughout the day, including in the first panel which will focus on Norway’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, where the nation topped the medal table with a record 18 gold medals.
The SVG Europe Winter Sports Forum, supported by NEP and Appear, will take place on 26 March at NEP’s Oslo Broadcast Centre. For more information and to register visit svgeurope.org/winter-sports-2026
In a session titled ‘Reclaiming the Rings: NRK’s All-Platform Strategy for Milano Cortina 2026’, producer Jostein Jære Fjeldskår and colleagues from NRK will explore how the public broadcaster reunited audiences across broadcast and digital platforms after more than a decade without full free-to-air Olympic rights.
The panel will examine editorial decision-making around Norway’s strongest medal sports and the hybrid production model linking Oslo with venues across Italy. Topics will include OB and flypack deployments, bonded connectivity, one-person control rooms, experiments with XR production and NRK’s first 1080p production workflow for the Winter Games.
That will be followed by TV4 chief sports officer Johan Cederqvist, who will discuss the Swedish broadcaster’s debut Olympic coverage in a session titled ‘Building the Olympic Pulse’.
Sharing rights with SVT, TV4 created an all-day editorial format that blended live competition with continuous sports news coverage. The session will examine how the broadcaster differentiated itself in a shared-rights environment while coordinating production across multiple locations and four on-site studios in Italy – driving record growth for TV4 Play, the network’s streaming platform.
Another highlight will be a technical case study focusing on the remote production of the Norwegian National Cross-Country Ski Championships in Harstad – produced from more than 1,400 kilometres away.
Speakers including Krister Skaathun (TV2 Norway), Ola Fagerheim (producer/director), Eirik Nakken (NEP Norway), and Andrew Rayner (Appear) will break down the end-to-end workflow using Appear’s X Platform, from on-site signal acquisition to centralised production and distribution.
The discussion will examine how connectivity, cloud-enabled workflows, multiviewing environments and collaborative production tools are reshaping live winter sports coverage.
Last year’s event drew attendees from organisations including Olympic Broadcasting Services, International Ski and Snowboard Federation, International Luge Federation, BBC, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Sky Deutschland, Warner Bros. Discovery, DMC Production, Eurovision Services, TV Skyline and many more.
For more information and to register visit svgeurope.org/winter-sports-2026
