Review Sochi 04: Broadcasting the Magic of the Games Acro the World

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have chosen Fairlight audio post production systems for their coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Both broadcasters are offering their viewers extensive coverage of the games in HD from the International Broadcast Centre and the Mountain Broadcast Centre, using ARD and ZDF's mobile production unit.

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NBC Olympics: Two Locations - One Production System

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv The Olympic Games in Sochi provide an example of the growth of at home efforts: A centralized production team like Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) does much of the camera and event production work, allowing the Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHBs) to concentrate on editing and building story packages. And more and more broadcasters even reduce their on-location staff by increasing the staff back at their home base, making best use of the data-pipelines which now are available from any international sports event location. One example is NBC Olympics. Already at the 2008 Beijing Games, NBC Olympics has used the large fiber and data pipes to do much more than just backhaul content. The goal has been to give production personnel, no matter where they are located, access to the content they need when they need it and with true autonomy and all located on one media asset management system (MAM). This year, NBC has accomplished that goal: Not only are the two main production centers in Sochi and Stamford (the headquarter of NBC Sports in Connecticut) connected, but all the venue production teams in and around Sochi are as well.

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NBC Uses Mergings Ovation for Sochi Olympics

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv Ovation has been gaining fans in the broadcast community in North America for the last two years. An early adopter was NBCSN at their Sports Center in Stamford, Connecticut. The initial order for four Ovation systems and four Horus units proved the advantages of managing the playout requirements in this way. The equipment list for Sochi for NBC Olympics included three more Ovations and another three Horus. The full suite of digital I/O and RAVENNA remote control of the routing and configuration of Horus allows for easy set up and high quality output.

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NBC Olympics' Production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games: Live and On-Demand Streaming

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv Microsoft Corp. has been selected to be the cloud encoding and hosting platform provider for NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, Feb. 6 23. As a result, viewers will be able to watch Winter Olympics programming via more than 50 live high-definition streams and on demand. The announcement was made today by Richard Cordella, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media, NBC Sports Group, and Scott Guthrie, acting lead of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise Group.

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XD Motion Drone at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Sochi

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv A dedicated remotly piloted aircraft (RPA Drone) was developed by XD motion to cover the Slopestyle snowboarding and Slopestyle skiing events at the during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The RPA Drone carries an HD camera with RF link. XD motion had to build a drone to fly long enough to follow the runs of the competitors from start to finish. Finally XD motion achieved a flying time of 16 minutes before the batteries need to be changed.

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Riedel to Provide Massive Communications and Signal Distribution Network at Winter Games

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv Riedel Communications, a leading provider of real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, announced that the company's MediorNet fiber-based network is supporting the transport of HD video and audio signals, data, and Riedel Artist intercom signals throughout the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. A Riedel Mass Cast deployment including 14 transmitters and thousands of receivers and earpieces provided support during the opening ceremonies and will support performances during closing ceremonies.

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CNTV and Sport TV Choose NeuLion to Power Live Streaming of the 2014 Olympics

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv NeuLion, a leading Internet video technology provider for delivering live and on-demand content to any Internet-enabled device, today announced its TV Everywhere Platform is being used to power live Olympic streaming experiences in China and Portugal to a vast fan base. Chinas consumer market, forecasted to become the second largest in the world by 2015, continues to grow at a rapid rate. Both Chinese and foreign companies are exploring new ways to keep up as the market evolves. CNTV and NeuLion have continued to stay at the forefront of the expanding Chinese marketplace with their premium digital service, CNTV 5 VIP. The newest addition to CNTV 5 VIP is the action packed coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi including exclusive coverage of hockey games as well as all Team China games throughout the Olympics.

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IMT Provides Gold-Medal Support for Russian Broadcast Coverage

copyrighted by liveProduction.tv As people from around the world are gathered in Sochi, Russia, for the Winter Games and Paralympic Games in March, Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group's Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the Broadcast and Sports & Entertainment markets, is supporting various Russian broadcast entities covering the events with more than 30 Nucomm CamPac2 wireless camera systems (CP2). The system comprises the CamPac2 camera-mounted transmitter and Newscaster DR2 diversity receiver, Sony RPS (Remote Paint System) camera

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