NBC Olympics Selects Grass Valley Infrastructure Products for its Production of 2016 Olympic Games in Rio
Grass Valley solutions enable NBC Olympics to streamline content delivery and management during its coverage
MONTREAL, April 17, 2016 NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to provide extensive infrastructure solutions for its production of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, which take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5-August 21. The announcement was made today by Terry Adams, vice president, IBC Engineering, NBC Olympics.
Grass Valley has been supplying the infrastructure solutions to NBC Olympics since 2006, and in 2016 is providing a number of innovative new products that will greatly enhance NBC Olympics' production efficiency within their compound inside the International Broadcast Center in Rio. This year, the SME-1901 Streaming Encoder will be a real game changer in the product line-up, providing multiformat video/audio over IP and featuring 3G/HD/SD SDI inputs. This will offer tremendous flexibility for the production team and journalists to view video feeds from any camera directly and edit low- and high-resolution content from their desktop or laptop. The SME-1901 can accept any video format and provides two H.264 streams, one high resolution and one low resolution, and is housed in the new Densit 3+ FR4 Frame alongside the XVP-3901, which handles all essential video, audio and metadata signal processing functions on a single module. The XVP-3901 offers up/down/crossconversion, color space conversion, frame synchronization, audio embedding and de-embedding and supports fiber optical I/O.
Another significant component in the infrastructure is Grass Valley's iControl Customized End-to-End Facility Monitoring and Control system. iControl will be used to build an integrated Monitoring and Control surface for QC operators, consolidating multiple key functions into a single interface for greater efficiency, such as control of XVP-3901, monitoring of WFM feed and control of the QC router. iControl will also allow operators to select feeds that they wish to pay more attention to and put them in a Doghouse (or Penalty Box).
Other solutions provided to NBC Olympics for their coverage of the Rio Games include the Densit Remote Control Panel for Densit cards, three NVISION 8500 HYBRID routers with a highly intuitive graphical interface and simplified video/audio signal processing and control, the NVISION Compact CQX router providing clean and quiet outputs for 3G/HD/SD signals and six auxiliary outputs for preview or monitoring to enable seamless video and audio transitions, LUMO Series High Density Fiber Converter to greatly streamline the cabling for the production with a 1 RU frame and 36 SFP-based fiber converters, and 34 Kaleido-IP Multiviewers for monitoring both IP and SDI sources on one monitor.
In addition, Grass Valley will provide NBC Olympics with infrastructure for their coverage at remote venues in Rio. Three NVISION 8500 HYBRID routers and Kaleido multiviewers will be deployed anywhere a flypack is needed.
We've had the honor of working with NBC Olympics for more than 10 years and are very excited about the advanced technologies we are bringing to the table this year, said Kyle Luther, vice president of sales, North America, Grass Valley. This is an incredibly complex production, requiring a robust infrastructure that will ensure everything runs smoothly and viewers experience the most compelling content. Our broadcast solutions are designed to enable users to tackle any project with the confidence that they are getting the best possible results.
NBC Olympics has been working with the Miranda, now Grass Valley, brand since the 2004 Athens Games, and they have always provided the highest quality products and expertise required for our coverage, said Adams. There are hundreds of incoming and outgoing feeds, in multiple locations, all requiring routing, control, and monitoring. Grass Valley's integrated iControl system allows us to deliver and maintain the technical quality demanded by our teams, and helps us tell the compelling stories that surround each event.
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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.
For more information on NBC Olympics' coverage of the Rio Olympics, please visit: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/
For information about Grass Valley solutions and services, please visit grassvalley.com.
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NBC Olympics Selects Grass Valley Infrastructure Products for its Production of 2016 Olympic Games in Rio
