Just over two months have passed since the 2012 Olympics closed in London, and, while the Games will certainly be remembered for the athletic feats of its competitors, they will go down in history as the first truly digital Games. The ability to live-stream content to desktops and mobile devices wasn’t reserved for those with […] More
Shure’s new Axient wireless microphones were widely used by a number of headline stars at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies during London’s sporting summer. Working together with the UK-based company Delta Sound, Antipodean audio systems supply specialists Norwest favored Shure from early on in the systems design process for the event. The games this summer […] More
Eurovision deployed ATEME Kyrion CM3101 encoders and DR8400 decoders for the distribution of major sports events this summer, including the UEFA EURO 2012 championship and the London 2012 Olympic Games. “We have worked with ATEME to bring top quality sports events to the world broadcasting community. They have proven a reliable partner in our mission […] More
iStreamPlanet, a multi-platform managed broadcast solutions provider, utilized Adtec Digital’s decoding technology as part of their “Go Live” turnkey, live streaming solution for Olympics rights holding broadcasters at the London Games. iStreamPlanet provided the live streaming solution ultimately delivering 19 concurrent feeds covering 300 Olympic events, and delivering over 60 TBs of video traffic. iStreamPlanet […] More
In part two of SVG Europe’s London 2012 Photo Gallery series, we take a look into the people that made the whole thing happen. Throughout their time in London, the SVG Europe team went behind the scenes at nearly every venue and spoke with a variety of production professionals, networks, and related organizations at the […] More
Calrec will have more than 30 consoles in use at U.K. outside broadcast events during the summer games. All the major players in European outside broadcast production will roll out their trucks to cover a variety of international sports, including tennis, boxing, swimming, and athletics. “This summer will be an exciting time for the U.K. […] More
ERR, the Estonian public broadcaster, will telecast this year’s international sporting events with remote coverage from London, as well as its production studio in Estonia’s capital of Tallinn, using its own production facilities supplied as a complete package from Grass Valley. The live production solutions, which include cameras, a production switcher, and production servers, enable […] More
International systems integration and full-service rental company Broadcast Rental has selected AXON’s modular signal processing, control & multiviewer monitoring technologies to form the backbone of Dutch broadcaster NOS’ broadcast production facility at the Summer Games in London this July. Amongst the AXON technologies being integrated within the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in London will be […] More
In order to support its coverage of several major sporting events in London this Summer, Russian satellite broadcaster NTV-PLUS has worked with Grass Valley to build a complete integrated production infrastructure based on the Grass Valley STRATUS Media Workflow Application Framework to control content workflows around server networks and editing facilities. As the Russian broadcast […] More
BBC Sport has launched a Facebook application offering audiences live streams of major sports events, including Wimbledon and up to 24 streams of Olympics coverage. This is the first time the BBC has live streamed events on Facebook. Users watch events with friends who are also online and chat together about the action as it […] More
