All Olympics articles
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NewsOne year countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympics begins for broadcasters
With one year to go before the Paris 2024 Olympics, the final countdown has begun for those responsible for broadcasting the Games which run from 26 July -11 August, 2024.
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News
EBU and Warner Bros Discovery win European rights to 2026-2032 Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded all media rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2026-2032 period to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Technical papers: The immersive Olympics
IBC2022: The breadth and diversity of sport and venue covered by the Olympics considerably magnifies the production challenge. So, to add the complexity of immersivity is impressive. In this two-paper session you learn how 5.1.4 immersive audio was added and used across all sports, as well as the opening ...
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Technical Papers
IBC2022 Tech Papers: Trailblazing with 8K live VR at Beijing 2022
IBC2022: This Technical Paper focuses on the workflow for live events experienced in a VR headset.
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Panel: Cloud applications in media & entertainment - what’s next?
IBC2022: Cloud solutions have become increasingly popular in every part of the broadcast workflow, giving content creators and broadcasters simpler and more affordable ways to create and distribute video content, whilst enabling scalability and the ability to evolve rapidly. However, there are different iterations all claiming to be Cloud, from ...
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IBC Accelerators 2021: 5G & remote production in live sport
The onset, rollout and continuing evolution of 5G has huge potential to help broadcasters accelerate their digitisation and transformation strategies and strengthen their market position right across the content value chain from production to distribution.
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Industry Trends
UHD, immersive audio, 5G and virtualised OBs: all the broadcasting innovation at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games
Beijing 2022 will offer an exciting glimpse into the immersive and virtualised future of Olympic broadcasting, as revealed by tech leaders at host broadcaster OBS.
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Industry Trends
Inside Discovery’s Winter Olympics broadcast plans
It will have been just 180 days since the closing ceremony in Tokyo when the curtain is raised for Beijing 2022 on 4 February, with Discovery’s teams working round the clock to prepare for another marathon live production.
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Daily News
Movicom rises to the occasion with RobyTower and Refcam
Movicom has released the lightweight RobyTower motorised telescopic column and helmet-mounted Refcam.
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News
OBS boss hails early cloud adoption
Yiannis Exarchos, the CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), has told IBC Digital that producing the host coverage for this year’s Tokyo Games was “the most challenging but also most rewarding” operation in the organisation’s history.
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Daily News
AP Playbook rewrites newsroom efficiency
The Associated Press’ cloud-hosted system AP Playbook for planning coverage across broadcast, digital, social and print channels, is being rolled out by Al Jazeera Media Networks to co-ordinate the activity of news teams in the Middle East, Europe, North America and around the world.
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Industry Trends
The Greatest Show on Earth: How OBS plans to immerse viewers in the Tokyo Olympics
With the world’s TV viewers cooped up for a year and most spectators barred from attending, never has there been a more pressing need for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to put on the greatest show on Earth.
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Industry Trends
Olympic postponement: Consequences for broadcasters
In a Covid-19 free world, the Tokyo Olympics 2020 would have just come to a close, but the coronavirus pandemic means the event has been delayed until 2021. Ross Biddiscombe investigates what impact this is having on broadcasters across the world.
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Video
Microsoft WW MD Media, Tony Emerson: The Cloud is now suitable for most of the supply chain
Tony Emerson, Worldwide MD, Media Cable, Microsoft, reminisces about the 2016 Rio Olympics which utilised Microsoft Cloud solutions.
