Recent Posts tagged with London 2012 Olympics
By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 9:33 am
June’s Glastonbury Music Festival near Bristol, UK, was an incredibly complex undertaking. When headliners the Rolling Stones, Mumford & Sons, and the Arctic Monkeys, joining nearly 250 other acts, took […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 12:23 pm
The London Olympics revolutionized the remote-production workflow, proving that audiences are voracious for multiscreen content and fears of cannibalization are unfounded. But the Games weren’t the only remote-production success story […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 4:18 pm
When an organization like NBC Sports spends $1.18 billion for the rights to an Olympics Games, content security — ensuring that only viewers access the content through authorized channels — […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 2:51 pm
SMPTE attendees at the 2012 Technical Conference and Exhibition this week in Los Angeles were provided an overview of the technical challenges overcome during the 3D coverage of the London […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum | Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:18 pm
Just over two months have passed since the 2012 Olympics closed in London, and, while the Games will certainly be remembered for the athletic feats of its competitors, they will […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 1:14 pm
Nearly 160 million total streams. 64.4 million live streams. 20.4 million hours of streamed video. 9.9 million authenticated devices. When it comes to NBC Olympics’ streaming efforts during the London […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 12:43 pm
Audio played a big part in the success of the London Olympics. Here’s what a pair of audio suppliers have to say about how it was done. Tim Carroll, president […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 1:00 am
The London Olympics offered a great show, with near-flawless performances by the technology sent to cover it. Audio played a huge part in that, as noted in an article on […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, August 17, 2012 - 12:12 pm
Events like the Olympics are always exciting for sports fans, but, increasingly, they are exciting for technology fans, too. This edition of the Sport Tech Journal shows why: our Special […]
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By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor | Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 12:47 pm
Despite being located more than 10,000 miles south of London, satellite-TV provider SuperSport and South African Broadcast Company (SABC) reveled in the fact that they were able to deliver the Olympic Games live to South Africa during normal viewing hours, thanks to an almost nonexistent time difference.
In order to serve this primetime audience back home, […]
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