Join SVG Europe Audio at its second event of 2022, the Immersive Audio Forum – Look back at Beijing. Taking place live online on 9 March at 3pm UK time, the informal session will explore what has been achieved at the Winter Olympics and how sophisticated rights holders like NBC are scaling up distribution to […] 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
When 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 shared and managed to who has access to what type of network. The good news, […] More
Olympics competitions are all about records on the field and the rights holders like NBC Olympics are doing their best to set some records as well. Take the transmission paths that NBC Olympics has deployed to connect Tokyo to the US “We have 80Gbps of connectivity between here and the US,” says Chris Connolly, NBC […] More
There are two days to go in the Tokyo Games, and, at this point, many of the thousands of broadcast professionals have started to head home. Others are staying for the Paralympic Games. But all of them, like Dave Mazza, SVP and CTO, NBC Sports Group and NBC Olympics, are reflecting on an Olympics experience […] More
Listen closely to the sound of the Summer Olympics, because there will be a lot of firsts. For instance, it will be the first Olympics broadcast in 5.4.1 immersive audio, with four overhead channels adding an upper dimension to the indoor events. And, due to last-minute COVID restrictions imposed by the Japanese government that bar […] More
The Tour de France has just drawn to a rapid close. The world’s best sports event for anyone with a case of unfulfilled wanderlust was produced in a completely new way by rightsholders and their production partners around the globe. Over the years, SMT has become a big part of NBC Sports’ Tour de France […] More
One World: Together at Home this past weekend was broadcast on ABC, CBS, and NBC as well as on multiple online platforms, and it showed how the power of music and storytelling combined with digital production technologies could do something that would have been unthinkable only five years ago: have more than 150 pieces of […] More
After making a big splash in April at its first NAB Show with the tall promise of reducing broadcasters’ transport and transcode workloads by more than half, Brevity’s system passed it first major test in the sports world at the London Olympic Games this summer, earning rave reviews from NBC’s graphics department. Then, at IBC […] More
NBC is to use MPEG-4 AVC compression from Ericsson for contribution and distribution to maximise content value from the London Olympics. Ericsson is providing NBC Sports with a variety of products, including MPEG-4 AVC encoders, professional receivers, multiplexers, and satellite modulators as well as a team of support engineers in both London and New York. […] More
