By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 8:13 am
Switzerland’s SRG SSR, the joint central production and broadcasting association for the nation, is using the 2016 Rio Olympics to take its remote-production efforts to another level from the 2014 […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 7:58 pm
If you’re working at the Olympic Games and happen to be free on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m., please join SVG and Riedel at Riedel’s Friends of the Games […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 6:53 pm
An aerial cable camera system flying over the Barra Olympic Park fell to the ground near the entrance to Arena Carioca 2, causing minor injuries to seven spectators. According to […]
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By Troy Dreier, Contributor, Streaming & Digital | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 6:30 pm
The Rio de Janeiro Games mark an important change for Olympic viewing. Although NBC Sports ramps up online efforts every two years, this time, viewers have decided that the online […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 3:11 pm
More than in any recent Olympic Games, NBC Olympics is making the host city the star of its creative and production processes here in Rio. Nowhere is that more evident […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 12:02 pm
In an age of shrinking IBC presence, German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF are bucking the trend with a production space in the 2016 Rio Olympics IBC that is about […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 8:05 am
Victor Sánchez Garcia, technical support director/technical manager, special events, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), is on hand in Rio with a team of 128 people to ensure that Olympic fans in Spain […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 12:47 am
For NBC Olympics, these Games are about far more than just the operations in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of loggers, editors, producers, and more in numerous geographic locations across two […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Sunday, August 14, 2016 - 3:37 pm
Although France Télévisions has a strong presence in Rio, much of the production work — including production of the main studio at the Olympic Park and integration of graphics within the […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Sunday, August 14, 2016 - 8:19 am
At the end of today, the Olympic Games will have its first Olympic golf champion in more than a century, and NBC Olympics and Golf Channel are giving golf’s return […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 8:28 am
Canon’s U.S. and European team are in Brazil, supporting such clients as NBC Olympics, NEP, NHK, Euromedia Group, and HD Resources. One estimate is that there are more than 1,000 Canon broadcast lenses […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 8:18 am
The BBC production team at the Rio Olympics is 455 people strong, and, like the Great Britain Olympic team itself, it is trying to make sure it does everything it can […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, August 12, 2016 - 12:06 pm
NBC Olympics’ exclusive and unprecedented multiplatform coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics continues to dominate the competition. On Wednesday, NBC Olympics’ live streaming for Rio 2016 topped one billion minutes […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, August 12, 2016 - 7:52 am
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are now in day six, and, historically, that has meant that the NBC Olympics team is getting into its groove as the sheer number of moving […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Friday, August 12, 2016 - 6:29 am
While Rio 2016 Olympics primetime ratings are down compared to London 2012, NBC’s Rio viewership is about much more than just the primetime linear television feed on it’s broadcast network. […]
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