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2020 Tokyo Olympics
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CBC opts for Tellyo to enhance digital content offering at Tokyo 2020In the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Canada’s CBC was in need of a solution to grow its content strategy through the rapid creation and distribution of video clips to deliver to Canadian sports fans....
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Sport Production & Technology Summit 2021: Bringing the Olympics back homeWhen the Olympics was cancelled last year, Ron Chakraborty, lead executive, major events at BBC Sport, had to decide whether to continue to plan for a rescheduled Games by sending an entire OB team or do it remotely. Having deployed...
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Caton collaborates with China Unicom and Momenta to deliver immersive live viewing experience of the OlympicsIn the current landscape, media producers are constantly looking for innovative ways to deliver high-quality live broadcasts to their viewers at anytime and anywhere. Consumers expect live events to be broadcast in real-time and at a high quality but without...
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Mo-Sys StarTracker plays key role in BBC Sport’s virtual studio for Tokyo GamesStarTracker technology from Mo-Sys Engineering was front and centre of the innovative virtual studio production for BBC Sport’s coverage of the Tokyo Games. The entire virtual graphics production was implemented by Moov, a UK-based sports and events graphics company. Dock10 at...
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Olympics, OTT and open source: TAG VS’s Kevin Joyce discusses continuous innovation in a year like no otherAs Kevin Joyce, Zer0 Friction office at TAG Video Systems, reflects on a busy summer of sport, it’s clear that there’s one particular highlight – the Tokyo Olympics. “That was a big event for TAG,” he enthuses. “Being an all-IP, all-software, real-time...
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Opinion: The importance of network resilience for major sporting eventsBy Anna Lockwood, global head of sales, Telstra Broadcast Services The Olympics and the following Paralympic Games are the largest broadcast events we typically work on at Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS), but even so, Tokyo 2020 represented a landmark for...
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Mobile Viewpoint encoders in high demand in Tokyo as TrollyLive makes its Olympic debutMobile Viewpoint’s broadcast and sport production customers that were live streaming content from this year's Tokyo Olympics together took with them over 70 WMT cellular encoders for their outside broadcast needs. However, given the magnitude of the event, this was...
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Panasonic’s manager, olympic marketing, reflects on 2020 Games and top trendsThe Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are complete and for the team at Panasonic Corporation, which delivered a wide range of equipment essential to stadium operation including large screen displays, audio systems and more, it’s time to reflect on the accomplishments...
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Darmah makes history with TV Azteca’s XR coverage of the 2020 Tokyo OlympicsMiami-based creative studio Darmah broke boundaries during the 2020 Summer Olympic Games when it went live with a full extended reality (XR) broadcast running a 4K workflow for TV Azteca Sports. The production, delivered by Darmah's full turnkey dXR Stage,...
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Olympic reflections: NBC Olympics’ IT effort drives new production workflowsWhen NBC Olympics began its efforts to keep more of the production team out of Tokyo, NBC Olympics VP, IT, Dan Robertson and his team helped the organisation shift into overdrive to create policies ranging from how the networks are...
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Dock10 rises to the challenge of the summer of sportIt has been non-stop action at dock10 this summer, and that's not just the sport on the TV. BBC Sport has produced coverage for both the Euros and the Olympics from the Salford facility, with dock10 hosting the tentpole events...
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Summer of sport continues across Discovery with 500 hours of live actionAs the dust settles on a memorable Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the live action from across the globe continues. Starting with the final Grand Tour of the year – La Vuelta a España - and ending with the men’s singles...
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LiveU reports 400% deployment increase in live broadcasts at the Tokyo GamesThe Tokyo Games saw a 400% increase in LiveU deployment compared to Rio 2016. LiveU's end-to-end solutions were used throughout Tokyo by hundreds of news and sports broadcasters. Over 1,300 units were in use, delivering 19,000 live sessions from the different...
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Olympic Broadcast Services’ Nuno Duarte speaks from Tokyo on taking the roof off of sound designNuno Duarte, Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) sound design and audio manager, has one of those jobs that most audiophiles dream of. Yes, it may be at a scale that could turn the dream into a nightmare, but being able to...
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