Olympics
Technology
Facial-recognition app draws Olympics’ attention
App provides athlete profiles to users who hold their smartphones to focus on particular athletes' faces on television
TVBEverywhere
Eurosport to deliver live Winter Olympics VR coverage
VR app will deliver more than 50 hours of live coverage
TVBEverywhere
Discovery partners with RAI to expand Winter Games coverage
Italian broadcaster will present up to 100 hours of free-to-air coverage
TVBEverywhere
BBC, UK Sport sign live-streaming deal
Partnership will see a range of Olympic and Paralympic sporting events streamed free of charge
Content
Discovery, Eurosport to ‘transform’ Winter Games
Eurosport will deliver the "first fully-digital Games"
Business
Eurosport partners with Bridgestone for Winter Olympics
Deal includes all Eurosport platforms in major markets across Europe
Business
Sky loses Premier League viewers as clubs demand bigger TV windfall
Premier League suffers largest drop in viewing on Sky Sports in seven years
Business
Sunset+Vine appoint new executive director
Sunset+Vine has appointed Andrew Preece as executive director to oversee all digital, branded content, distribution and news operations within the company. Preece, who has...
Analysis
A look back at NBC Olympics’ coverage of Rio 2016
Darryl Jefferson, VP post operations and digital workflow, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, looks back on Rio 2016
TVBEverywhere
Olympic Channel launches in six new languages
Content is now available in Chinese, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish, in addition to English
Business
Eurosport becomes the new home of the Olympics
Eurosport’s Olympic Games logo will "define a new era" for Europe’s number one sports destination. The logo reveal took place on-air and across all...
Features
Inside the chief executive’s office
Philip Stevens talks to the CEO of the Olympic host broadcaster about the upcoming spectacular in South America
Features
Driving engagement
George Jarrett talks to Fabrice Hamaide, CFO and president of Piksel, about the huge advantages that come with a micro services architecture. Netflix and...
TVBEverywhere
IOC launches Olympic Channel
The IOC has rolled out a new digital platform to deliver Olympic content on-demand. The Olympic Channel, available across all devices, will offer a...
Business
BBC Sport 360 launches for Rio 2016
The BBC has launched BBC Sport 360 ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics. The experimental service will bring Olympics coverage live and on-demand to...
TVBEverywhere
Two-thirds of Olympics TV viewers will second-screen
Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of Britons viewing the Olympics on TV will use an internet-connected device at the same time, according to the...
TVBEverywhere
NBC to offer VR Olympics content
NBC is set to deliver coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in VR. The content will be exclusive to authenticated users of compatible...
Business
Discovery and ORF pen Olympic deal
Discovery Communications has agreed a long-term partnership with Austrian public broadcaster ORF that will see every event of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games...
TVBEverywhere
NBC to deliver Rio 2016 in 4K
NBC will be providing its distribution partners with 4K coverage of the Rio Olympics this summer. The broadcaster will deliver 4K coverage to cable,...
Production & Post
Qvest Media equips ARD and ZDF for Rio
Public broadcasters ARD and ZDF are partnering with Qvest Media to broadcast the European Football Championships in France and the Olympic Games in Rio...
Uncategorized
RTS to aid NBC at Rio 2016
RTS will be supporting NBC at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio this summer. The company will provide NBC with broadcast intercom systems and...
TVBEverywhere
BBC+ app will deliver ‘more personalised’ content
The BBC is launching a new discovery app ahead of a summer of sport. The announcement, which was made in the corporation’s latest progress...
TVBEverywhere
SES to aid Olympic coverage
EBU network Eurovision has agreed a deal with SES to air coverage of the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The satellite operator will provide Eurovision...
Production & Post
Linear Acoustic to support NBC at Rio 2016
The company will provide audio upmixing and technical support, including the delivery of over 40 Upmax V4 units and remote controls, as well as...
TVBEverywhere
Ericsson to support NBC at Rio 2016
Ericsson will provide video contribution and distribution solutions for NBC’s Olympic coverage in Rio this summer. The Swedish corporation has been selected to aid...
Features
An Olympic undertaking
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been pushing the boundaries of TV and media production ever since the Stockholm games in 1912, writes Adrian...
Production & Post
LiveU at Rio 2016
Over 300 LiveU IP-bonding units are to be used to help cover the 2016 Rio Olympics. The units will be implemented by more than...
TVBEverywhere
Rio Olympics in 8K and VR
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games are to be covered in 8K, with footage also captured for Virtual Reality (VR) users. Parts of the Games...
Features
Live IP: The live debate
Audiences were able to see the workings of complete IP-based yesterday morning, with the Live IP debate broadcast across the web directly from the...
Business
BBC retains Olympics coverage
The BBC has secured the rights for the summer and winter Olympics up to and including 2024
TVBEverywhere
BT wins £100 million BBC contract
The BBC has chosen BT to provide its next-generation broadcast network
Production & Post
Panasonic to deliver visuals for 2016 Olympic ceremonies
Panasonic will deliver visual operations for the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympic Games after becoming an official ceremony partner of the Olympic organising committee
Business
Rovi launches sports metadata to connect fans
Rovi Corporation has introduced Rovi Sports, a new metadata product that drives personalised discovery before, during and after a sports game
TVBEverywhere
Sir Martin Sorrell stresses “more online and more mobile” for Olympics coverage
Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of marketing communications group WPP, gave a keynote speech on youth media consumption and what it means for...
IBC
Olympic AV archive to be honoured at IBC2015
Conservation by the International Olympic Committee of more than a century of audiovisual assets is to be recognised as part of the IBC2015 Awards...
Business
EVS partners with TVBEurope for Strategy Week IP webinar
TVBEurope, in partnership with EVS, is delighted to announce a free-to-attend webinar focusing on IP and live production on Wednesday 1 July as part...
Features
IP for contribution broadcast: ubiquity and beyond
As an industry, professional broadcasting accepted IP in the contribution realm with more than a little dose of skepticism. For all of IP’s benefits...
Business
EVS partners with Getty Images for Qatar Olympic Committee
EVS has partnered with Getty Images to create a bespoke digital archive system for the Qatar Olympic Committee’s(QOC) heritage assets.
Business
TVBAwards: nominations shortlist announced
The shortlist has been drawn up, and TVBEurope is delighted to announce the nominees that will battle it out for the title of ‘TVBAward...
Business
BT Sport, Dalet and Timeline TV selected for IBC Award
Dalet Digital Media Systems, along with Timeline Television and BT Sport have been shortlisted for the IBC2014 Innovation Awards.
Production & Post
Akamai delivers “monster of challenge” World Cup
Akamai has been supporting high quality video streaming, site performance and in some cases security services to 50 rights holders which have been delivering...
TVBEverywhere
BBC 4K test is first of many
The BBC has given the strongest indication yet of plans to launch an Ultra HD service by performing a test broadcast of three matches...
Production & Post
deltatre in World Cup win for BBC graphics
Graphic services to accompany the BBC’s coverage of the FIFA World Cup will be provided by deltatre.