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6 SPORT: THE CBC IN SOCHI James Careless on how the CBC split its production between Canada and Russia
8 SPORT: NBC IN SOCHI James Careless on US rightsholder NBC’s massive, evolving production
12 TECH NEWS: T2-LITE Davide Moro was along for the ride on a recent test of the impressive mobile video technology
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4 SPORT: SOCHI OVERVIEW Andy Stout on the companion screen and more at Russia’s Winter Olympics
I am writing this editorial from my room in a media compound at the Sochi Olympics. As with most Olympics since Atlanta, I am working from the 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). As you read this, the Olympics are likely over or nearly finished, but if you were involved in the Games in any way you think is worthy of coverage, please send me an e-mail. I know of course that most Southeast Asian countries will never have the interest in the snow sports that a country like Norway does, but the countries we include in the Asia/Pacific include Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and others that have a presence at the Games, and thus an audience at home. Te host broadcaster has made it easier for small or mid-sized countries or consortia to cover the Games as well, with pre-packaged content and such. Even in a land that never sees snow, it might be possible to create an Olympic audience. At the very least, the companion screen and networked production advances seen here have applications in the business plans of many broadcasters moving forward. See some stories here, and expect more in our April issue. 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
At the ski jump in Torino in 2006. I’ll be in the same jacket at Sochi, but expect a lot less hair.
moving forward. We’ll sometimes run stories only on the web. As our industry gears up for Rio’s World cup 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, TV Technology Europe
Cover image inside the SmartPhone courtesy of the Sochi2014 Press Office, with the larger picture by Craig Norris.
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