By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Friday, August 19, 2016 - 1:11 am
Entertaining Canadian viewers is always a dual-front effort: there are your French-language customers (watching on Radio-Canada) and your English-language customers (watching on CBC). That’s the chief reason the CBC/Radio-Canada is […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 8:21 pm
The Olympic Games attracts not only a wide range of nationalities and athletes but also a wide range of broadcasters, some looking forward to a day when 8K HDR is […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 6:32 pm
Carioca Arena 2 (CA2): Judo Judo battles take place at Carioca Arena 2 in the Barra Olympic Park. Judo is a dynamic combat sport that demands both physical prowess and […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 2:48 pm
Karl Malone, director, sound design, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, is spending plenty of time listening to the Olympic Games and, so far, is more than happy with what he […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 2:45 pm
The 2016 Rio Olympics are proof positive that the social-media revolution is fully upon us, and NBC Olympics is doing its part to ensure that its social-media team makes the […]
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By Troy Dreier, Contributor, Streaming & Digital | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 10:45 am
Canada might be a Winter Games powerhouse, but it loves the Summer Olympics, too. This year, it falls to CBC/Radio-Canada to stream the Games to sports-loving Canucks, and it‘s doing […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 8:58 am
Broadcast audio at the 2016 Rio Olympics demonstrates the rapid uptake of IP-based audio transport in the industry. Much of that is taking place out of sight, in the domain […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 10:58 am
When it comes to finding cycling expertise, look no further than the Belgians. The nation’s Olympic-rights holder VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie) has played a major role in OBS’s production of […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 9:31 am
The Dutch Olympic team has enjoyed a super start to Week 2 here in Rio, and NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting) was fully prepared to cover the celebrations.
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 4:44 pm
For the first time since 1904, golf has made its triumphant return to the Summer Olympic Games, and NBC Olympics and Golf Channel are giving the sport the royal treatment. Molly Solomon, […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 12:47 pm
Sydney may be 13 hours ahead of the action here in Rio, but that hasn’t stopped Australian rightsholder Seven Network from going all in on its fully live coverage of these […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 12:41 pm
TV2 Norway has 68 people onsite in Rio, working out of a production area in the IBC as well as at a studio in Olympic Park, a standup position right […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 10:29 am
SVG is on the scene in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics and doing our best to visit as many venues as possible to document some of the specialty cameras, production […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 8:51 am
Viewership for NBC’s Sunday night broadcast featuring Usain Bolt’s historic victory in the 100 meters, peaked at 34.9 million between 9:15-9:30 p.m. ET/PT, as Bolt sprinted to his third-consecutive 100-meter […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 8:23 am
Sky New Zealand’s team of 26 production professionals is tapping into the same technical backbone it used for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last year, ensuring that a production team […]
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