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Wondering how much kit is used during an Olympics broadcast? Here’s the tech breakdown from NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Games
U S Olympics rights holder NBC Sports brought together a raft of its regular tech vendors for coverage of the XXIV Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing – across NBC, Peacock, USA Network, CNBC, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. NBC used over 100 Sony cameras to capture footage and athlete interviews at venues, for studio and portable recording and capture. A selection, including the HDC- 3500, were used for IP-enabled transmission, with the rest in SDI. There were alsomore than 300 Sony professional monitors – including the BVM-HX310 4K HDRMaster for critical picture evaluation, and PVM-X Series 4K HDR Trimasters for on-set and location. Other HD LCDmonitors from the lightweight LMD series were used in the studio and field. NBC Sports utilised Sony’s Professional Services Group to provide 24/7 support for its equipment and operations, for the integration of the International Broadcast Centre in Beijing, as well as reinforcement for competition venues and its Stamford studios. Grass Valley continued to provide NBC Sports a range of IP and SDI solutions, as it has done for the last seven Olympic and Paralympic Games. The IP technology, including its Dynamic SystemOrchestration, powered NBC Sports’ remote
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production from the Stamford International Broadcast Centre. NBC Sports maximised the benefits of IP through a configuration, control and monitoring solution, specifically designed for the orchestration of broadcast media networks across SDI, hybrid and pure IP. Comms were supplied by RTS, who have worked with NBC Sports for over 25 years. It helped NBC make the transition from analogue to IP, allowing the broadcaster’s local and global venues to act as
a single virtual location, using RTS Trunking solutions. The installations for the Olympics included RTS Omneo audio for location communication, and RVON for international
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