NEP to Provide Technical and Operational Broadcast Services for NBC Olympics' Production of the London 2012 Olympic Games

July 11, 2012 (Pittsburgh)

NEP has been selected to provide an extensive array of technical and operational management services to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, for its production of the London 2012 Summer Olympics July 27-Aug. 12. The announcement was made today by Gary Zenkel, president, NBC Olympics, and Debbie Honkus, chairman of the board, NEP.

We are pleased to be working once again with NEP, and we are confident that NEP's broad range of operational and technical expertise and solutions will help us ignite even more excitement among viewers watching the Games on the networks of NBCUniversal, said Zenkel.

For the London Games, NEP is assisting with technical and operational management services for NBC Olympics' installation at the International Broadcast Centre and sport venues, which includes planning and design, operations coordination, and acting as a liaison between various groups to ensure that the engineering system design will meet the requirements of each production team. In addition, NEP is supplying management staff onsite to assist with execution in various roles including technical venue management, technical operations management, project management, project engineering, communications engineering, venue operations management and facility scheduling.

In addition to management services, NEP is providing extensive equipment resources for NBC Olympics' coverage of the Games. NEP's U.K. division, NEP Visions, is supplying the majority of the mobile OB units for unilateral venue coverage including OB trucks, tape trucks, and engineering staff for four major Olympics venues. All feeds from the Opening Ceremony, track & field, gymnastics, basketball finals, beach volleyball, tennis, and the Closing Ceremony will originate from NEP mobile units. These feeds will be edited into broadcast programming at the International Broadcast Centre, and portions will be fed back to NBC Olympics' facilities in New York where they will originate various cable broadcast shows.

NBC Olympics and NEP have enjoyed a very close and mutually beneficial partnership over multiple decades. With the completion of each Games, the relationship has grown in strength and depth - and we are now privileged to assist NBC Olympics where needed with many different aspects of production, said Honkus. Besides being able to draw from its vast in-house pool of expertise and equipment, NEP is able to offer NBC Olympics unique solutions for each Games location or production that are cost-effective as well as models of simplicity and efficiency.

About NBC Olympics

A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and promoting NBCUniversals Olympic coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.

Having produced every Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter Olympics since Salt Lake City in 2002, the networks of NBCUniversal are synonymous with the Games in the United States. In 2011, NBCUniversal acquired the U.S. media rights on all platforms to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the conclusion of the 2020 Games, NBCUniversal will have presented 17 total Olympic Games and 11 consecutive, the most for a U.S. media company in both categories.

NBC has won an unprecedented 91 Emmy Awards for its Olympics coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its presentation of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which USA Today said was the best overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S. network.

In addition to its unsurpassed heritage and award-winning production, NBCUniversal is known for aggregating large Olympic audiences, as nine of the top 11 most-watched U.S. television events of all time are Olympic Games presented across the networks of NBCUniversal. The Beijing Summer Olympics rank No. 1 with 215 million viewers.

About NEP

NEP provides the technology and know-how to enable clients to produce the world's most prestigious live and broadcast events around the globe. The company is the leading worldwide provider of outsourced production solutions offering technical services for remote production, studio production, video display, host broadcasting, post production, premium playout, smart asset / media management, and multi-screen delivery. NEP's more than 3,000 employees are driven by passion and a focus on technical innovation, and together they have supported productions in over 85 countries on all seven continents. NEP is headquartered in the United States and has offices in 21 countries.

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