The contract calls for the Morning Line preview show to increase to 62 episodes
An operator in the VT truck assigns clips to the Hego database over the network and the bespoke software takes control of a channel of an EVS. This allows the presenters and experts to analyse replays in detail.
experienced production team to oversee this new contract. Running the day-to-day production is Executive Producer Carl Hicks. He spent more than 20 years at the BBC and worked as lead editor at the
London Olympics. Sophie Veats joins the IMG staff as senior producer after freelancing on a variety of sporting events for two decades, while award winning live sports director Denise Large continues with her
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role of covering horse racing – her speciality for the past 15 years. Onscreen personnel will be led by presenters Clare Balding and Nick Luck. www.imgworld.comwww.channel4.com
Graham Fry: “On a week by week basis, we are using between 17 and 19 cameras for programmes”
Peacock continues, “The
Telestrator is the core feature of the touchscreen and it will help do for horse racing analysis what our other touchscreen projects have done in other sports such as football, rugby union and tennis.” The touchscreen itself comes
from Channel-Interactive. “Our new 47-inch C-iTable touch screen delivers a multi-touch experience using a ‘glass surface’ which allows several users to touch the screen at the same time,” explains Company Director, Mark Christian-Evans. “More and more we see the use of touch technology within sports broadcast and our partnership with the Hego Group has enabled us to grow in this sector.” Editing for the Morning Line
preview programmes and afternoon race coverage is carried out using Avid. Prior to each race meeting, there are two days editing carried out in the OB truck parked at IMG offices. For a Saturday race meeting, the OB unit and edit facility travels to the course on Thursday evening, allowing further editing to take place on site during Friday. The edit suites remain operational on Saturday. At major race meetings, the
number of on location suites increases to four or five. “We are moving towards a completely tapeless operation for this racing contract and we hope that should happen quite quickly. We are also investigating a suitable Media Asset Management system that helps to increase efficiency,” declares Fry. On the personnel side, IMG has assembled a very
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