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
SVG Europe caught up with Yannis Petrakoyannis, an A1 for Greek independent full-service company, INA TV, to find out about his experience of working on the World Cup football qualifiers, as well as the ins and outs of the audio technology he used on site. You’re a sound engineer with 25 years of experience in […] More
Calrec support engineer, Toby Spiller, is in the thick of it in Beijing at the Winter Olympics, supporting the audio tech provider’s customer, NBC with its broadcast infrastructure. Here he tells us about supporting a number of international broadcasters who are using remote and on-prem hardware, how that works under strict COVID-19 measures, the importance […] More
By Dave Letson, VP of sales, Calrec This might be controversial, but here goes: The future of live sports broadcasting will not be on-site, or off-site, or hybrid, or edge processing. In fact, it will be determined entirely by production needs and budget, and it won’t be up to us to decide how it’s done. […] More
Audio broadcast equipment designer and supplier Calrec has renewed its sponsorship of SVG Europe. The company is active in both the sports and esports sectors, with Ross Production Services, which managed the production of EA’s Madden NFL 21 Championship Series, standardising on Calrec desks across its OB fleet and Connecticut studio facilities Closer to home, […] More
Turkey-based Zeynep Mengioglu, a sound engineer at OB provider HD Protek, is the first woman to work in an OB van in the country. Her years of growing up around professional audio have helped hone her craft as a sound engineer at HD Protek, which is part of the Saran Media in Istanbul. She uses […] More
The old Granada Studios, located on Quay Street in Manchester, were purpose-built in 1954 by founder Sidney Bernstein as part of Granada Television. Today, they are known as Manchester Studios, a space reborn and ready for a new creative community. The studios have been refurbished with state-of-the-art facilities to support today’s production requirements. fac365, which […] More
It 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 through a combination of virtual sets, infrastructure upgrades, massive fibre roll out, working closely with […] More
Television facility dock10 has expanded its roster of Calrec audio consoles with the addition of an Artemis desk in its new £1 million remote gallery. The multipurpose gallery was designed to complement OB providers’ services and connects to the dock10 network, which has more than 20 dedicated service providers. It is adjacent to dock10’s HQ8 […] More
First taking place in drought-struck AlUla, Saudi Arabia, then the sea-threatened Lac Rose area in Senegal, the next race will be in August on sandbars in front of the retreating Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq in Greenland. Bringing the audio of the races and these threatened environments to life is a team of audio experts from […] More
