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As has been the case with most Olympics since Atlanta, I will be at the Sochi International Broadcast Centre (IBC) at the Games with full credentials. I’ve stopped by and profiled the facilities of dozens of small, medium, and large rightsholding broadcasters over the years. I always cover my host NBC, and I do my best to give credit to the tech organization that really makes it all possible, host broadcaster Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). If you are in Sochi, I’d love to stop by to get your
contact details and take a few quick pictures. I am flexible on timing, as I tend to spend 12 or more hours per day at the IBC or venues, waiting for people to get off a shift so I can grab them for a few minutes to hear the details of their job or facility. Please e-mail me at
mhallinger@nbmedia.comand I will stop by for a quick chat or card exchange on your schedule. Also, please check out our new Sports Now
channel at
www.tvtechnology.com. Tis site- within-a-site has all kinds of sport coverage, with much of it these past few weeks generated via a new e-mail newsletter called Te Road to the 2014 Winter Games. By the time you read this, we’ll have a good Sochi overview posted on Sports Now Te web gives us the space to really use the
global resources we have, so expect more coordinated coverage between the print edition of this magazine and our online presence moving forward. We’ll sometimes run stories only on the web, as we did with two user reports this month. We also have expanded BVE product coverage online, for those attending the London show. As our industry gears up for Rio’s World cup
4 SPECIAL REPORT: MAM Craig Norris reports on how Foxtel built a beneficial, modern MAM system
8 EXHIBITIONS: Broadcast
Video Expo Ann-Marie Corvin looks at the expanding London-based event
12 SMPTE UPDATE: IP in
Broadcast Bruce Devlin on SMPTE’s regional seminars designed to help the industry better manage the shift toward IP-based handling of media.
14 TRENDS:
Channel-in-a-Box David Austerberry on where we are and where we might be headed.
At the ski jump in Torino in 2006. I’ll be in the same jacket at Sochi, but expect a lot less hair.
later this year, expect great coverage on Sports Now. Andy Stout, who wrote our Olympics Overview you can now find on the web, opines that we will see some limited 4K production from Sochi, but June’s World Cup may see a bigger 4K splash. Sport broadcast has always been about main
screen stories such as HD, or 3D, or 4K/UHDTV. IP technology and server-based production has also helped fill the companion screens with content, and Sochi will mirror London as far as the generation of content for SmartPhones and other devices is concerned. Tis Games will likely be watched as much on tiny screens as on great big HD screens.
Mark Hallinger Editor & Associate Publisher
Cover image inside the SmartPhone courtesy of the Sochi2014 Press Office, with the larger picture by Craig Norris..
18 BUYERS GUIDE: Automation, MAM, DAM,
Recording & Storage A user report from Belgium’s Skynet iMotion Activities on how Pebble Beach’s Marina system fit channel expansion, and product news.
24 SHARPSHOOTER:
Ed Lister A few questions with the Manchester-based lighting cameraman and self-shooting producer.
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