June2013
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TVBEurope 41 Summer of Sports: OB Focus
New Dutch king in United TV coverage
By Fergal Ringrose
AFTER 33 years on the throne, Queen Beatrix abdicated in favour of her son Willem- Alexander on 30 April. Throughout the world, millions followed on television what was the first inauguration of a Dutch king for 124 years — and certainly the social event of the century in the Benelux region. The company responsible
for most of the TV production was Hilversum-based United, which captured images from the royal palace on the Dam, Museum Square and the royal barge as it toured the canals of the capital. Five OB trucks were used to broadcast the festivities, along with just under 100 cameras, 10 uplink trucks and 350 employees. “This production differed from others primarily in its
sheer importance,” said Bolke Burnaby Lautier, operations manager Sports & Events with United. “With literally millions of viewers following the event live all over the world on TV, any technical failure could have proved catastrophic.” Central to the avoidance of
any such failure was the quality of communications between the individual live locations. In all the outside broadcast vehicles deployed, United relied on intercom systems from RTS. Parked in front of the royal palace was the flagship of the United OB fleet, the HD- capable OB 14. The nerve centre of communications on board is an ADAM (Advanced Digital Audio Matrix) from RTS with a 144x144 port configuration, linked to 31 keypanels (KP-32 CLD or KP-12 CLD) with colour
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima on inauguration day, 30 April
displays. Six 2W/4W Digital Hybrid Interfaces from RTS as well as RTS TW BP-325 2-channel belt packs completed the array of communications equipment on board. United deployed two OB vans
to cover the festivities in Museum Square: linked by trunking, OB 12 and OB 15, which are also HD-capable, were responsible inter alia for sound and vision of the concert in the evening by star violinist André Rieu. Here, an RTS ADAM
digital matrix saw service in OB 12 and an RTS Cronus matrix in OB 15 with 23 keypanels, eight 2W/4W interfaces and 20 RTS belt packs serving as peripherals. A further Cronus matrix provided the backbone of the intercom solution in OB 8, which was assigned to cover the voyage of Willem-Alexander and his wife Maxima through the city’s canals on the royal barge. The individual locations were linked via satellite.
www.rtsintercoms.com
NEWS INBRIEF
World Hockey on USB The IIHF World Hockey
Championships, held last month were broadcast over two weeks, with at least four games played each day. An excess of 10 hours daily, had to be recorded, reviewed, copied onto USB sticks and shared on FTP servers between the arenas in Sweden and Finland. LGZ delivered its USB Recorders as well as two Referee systems, and a smart networking solution between the arenas. Over 800 USB sticks of HD H.264 quality recordings were delivered, plus clips.
www.lgztech.com
Loft rolls with Boulder Boulder Creek International (BCI) has selected Loft London to be its global content management delivery partner. The partnership will involve Loft London processing and delivering over 70 episodes of BCI’s sports and entertainment programmes Wild Spiritsand Better than Fourto BBC Worldwide and other broadcasters in a file-based workflow environment.
www.bouldercreekinternational .com
www.loftlondon.co.uk
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