Vizrt Rio Summer Games blog

Find out how broadcasters and rights holders of the Rio Summer Games will be using Vizrt for their production needs.

TV 2 Norway centralizes Rio Summer Games production in NorwayVizrt

1 August, 2016

Ingrid Halstensen and Erik Thorstvedt (credit TV 2 Norway)

Norway's largest commercial broadcaster, TV 2, has been in Rio de Janeiro for the last few weeks preparing for the summer games that begin this Friday. The broadcaster has 60 personnel in Rio set to cover the games. They will add Norwegian commentary to more than 25 different sports during the event as well as provide match analysis and create original stories.

TV 2 is also one of only two broadcasters who have their studio in the middle of the summer games athletes' village. The studio will feature two Electric Friends robotic cameras and augmented reality (AR) graphics powered by Viz Virtual Studio. Two broadcast channels, TV 2 and TV 2 Sport, will broadcast the biggest events. But VOD/streaming platform TV 2 Sumo will broadcast most of the action with more than 2,500 hours of live sports content.

Producing all of this content requires a lot of resources. To make the production as efficient as possible, TV 2 is centralizing their efforts in Bergen and Oslo, Norway. Instead of having several control rooms or OB vans in Rio de Janeiro, much of the production will be done remotely from Norway. The studio automation system Viz Mosart will add in Norwegian commentary, graphics - rendered by Viz Engine - and switch all the pre- and post- analysis shows that will be taking place from the studio in Rio.

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Ready for Rio: How German viewers will watch the OlympicsPhilip Stevens / SVG Europe

19 July, 2016

The following is an excerpt of the original article from SVG Europe.

Dieter Gruschwitz, ZDF's head of sports (credit: PAP/Radek Pietruszka)

Planning for the Rio Games started for German public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) immediately following the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. For such a major event as the Olympics, intense planning is required - especially when we are operating so far away from our base and with the significant time differences, explains Dieter Gruschwitz, ZDF's head of sports. We share the rights to the Games with ARD, and so preparations were made in consultation with our colleagues from that broadcaster. It also means it makes economic sense to share facilities with ARD.

Gruschwitz reveals that ZDF will be using around 140 technical and production personnel in Rio and across Brazil. This number includes about 90 commentators, presenters, producers and edits who will be based in Rio. We do not anticipate using any local technical personnel or equipment, but rather will be taking our own experienced staff from Germany and use kit with which they are familiar.

EVS XT3 servers along with IPDirector are being used for ingest, while the German broadcasters have chosen Vizrt for graphics production as part of their high-definition workflow integrated production.

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