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Live From The Open: CTV OB Advances Workflows, Operations

22/07/2017

Live From The Open: CTV OB Advances Workflows, Operations The effort meets the needs of such clients as ETP, NBC, and Sky Sports By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director

Friday, July 21, 2017 - 1:58 pm

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The 146th Open Championship is under way at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, and this year's production efforts are building off efforts at Royal Troon last year, when European Tour Productions (ETP) took over host-production duties and NBC and Sky Sports took over U.S. and domestic UK broadcast rights, respectively, from ESPN and the BBC. The switch required everyone to move more quickly, with only six months from the time the rights and duties changed hands to tee off.

This year's planning went smoother, as we had done it once with all the new parties, says Hamish Greig, technical director, CTV OB. ETP, NBC, and Sky each knew what they wanted, and we were able to get rid of 2016 bottlenecks and have normal site surveys in October and April. Last year, we could do it only in December.

CTV OB's Hamish Greig at The Open at Royal Birkdale Golf Club

This year's production will make use of 178 cameras, 27 of which are RF. One addition this year locates three POV cameras on the player's bridge to show them walking from the practice green to the first tee. There are also 10 bunker cameras (six on course, three at the practice range, and one in a bunker at the putting green), five RailCams, three Inertia Unlimited X-Mos, and a CAMCAT Colibri, which is used at the range.

The team at CTV OB was able to solve some bottlenecks that existed last year. Workflows have been improved, and the newly expanded Technical Operations Signal Circuit Allocation (TOSCA) area exemplifies those improvements. Last year's TOSCA fit in a small cabin and comprised two Snell Sirius 800 routing switchers (each backing up the other), 84 Evertz multiviewers, and more than 300 AD/DA converters.

This year, we built an 18- x 8-meter building instead of a cabin, and it includes quality control and media management and has the EVS servers and an extra technical-operations center, Greig explains. There is also a third 288 516 Snell Cygnus router for Sky, TV Asahi, and the BBC, additional AD/DAs, and an Axon Cerebrum control system and ProBel Aurora control systems.

Broadcast Center Handles World, NBC Feeds

At the core of the production facilities is a broadcast center that is home to both the world-feed production and NBC's production. The world feed is produced out of a main production gallery, a main submix, and a super-iso/replay room. The NBC Sports area houses a main production gallery, iso/replay gallery, and two audio-mix areas with one for the early-morning coverage, from 6:30 to noon, and the second for coverage from noon onwards.

The team in the super-iso room is one of the most important in the compound, ensuring that the main production gallery never misses a shot via three eight-channel EVS XT3 replay servers (a total of 38 eight-channel EVS XT3 servers and two 12-channel XT3 servers are in use across the compound by various entities). The super-iso team also keeps an eye on the majority of the players on the course so that the main production gallery can zero in on those at the top of the leaderboard.

Next door to the super-iso/replay area is the main replay-submix area with two directors and four EVS operators creating features and additional replay packages via four eight-channel EVS XT3 replay servers. The teams in both iso-relay areas work hard to ensure that all the storylines on the course are covered properly.

The third component in the broadcast center is the main production gallery, featuring a Grass Valley Kayenne production switcher with 5M/E and 10 DPMs.

A new TOSCA facility at The Open offers plenty of room for EVS servers and a routing infrastructure to serve rightsholders.

The large broadcast center and TOSCA area are complemented by approximately 23 production vehicles, including OB1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 14 and related support vehicles. OB6 is on hand for the Sky Sports coverage of The Open Zone alongside a Telegenic 19 being used by Sky as its main show truck. NBC Sports is also making use of CTV OB units as OB9 handles audio communications and the audio-effects mix, the early-morning EVS operations, and the vision area.

CTV OB10, meanwhile, is onsite for coverage of the marquee groups as well as for scoring operations and the main audio mix. The production area also serves as the ultimate backup in case of catastrophic failure in the main production center, with 28 cameras shaded in OB10. And OB7 is handling the operation of 11 Pro Tracer units (eight on tee boxes, two on fairways, and one on a green).

Telegenic's T23 handles the audio-effects submix and houses a production area with an eight-channel EVS XT3 server for creation of 10-minute hourly highlight packages for South Africa, Australia, Korea, Japan, and Scandinavia. The Aerial Camera Systems (ACS) fleet of specialty cameras are also handled in T23.

Unilateral Coverage of Hole 18 Is Added

Another change from last year is that MVT1 is now producing first- and 18th-hole coverage (last year, it offered coverage only of the first hole). The production team has its own four unilateral cameras and will work out of MVT1 alongside the commentary team. And CTV's OB3 is on hand for a similar function, creating the three-hole feed (with complete coverage of holes 12, 13, and 14) for streaming distribution.

CTV's RAT (Remote Antenna Towers) mobile unit is also onsite with two production areas: one for marquee-group commentary and another for Hawkeye green mapping. Greig first saw the Hawkeye green mapping at the U.S. Open in Chambers Bay in 2015, where it was used by Fox Sports. He adds that advances have made the contour overlay much m
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