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A great article by Carolyn Braff, Managing Editor of the Sports Video Group on some of the broadcast challenges at the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Jeff Coleman is a veteran sports producer, having spent the last decade producing a variety of events from countries around the globe. But nothing could prepare him for the challenges of spending 17 days broadcasting eight alpine ski events atop a mountain. Home to men and women’s downhill, super combined, Super-G, slalom, and giant slalom Olympic events, Whistler Creekside is a steep, unforgiving hill, made all the more difficult to navigate because the rest of the mountain remains open to the public throughout the Games. Coleman took a few minutes out of his non-stop schedule to explain to SVG how his team has overcome the early challenges that this venue – and these Games – have posed to his Olympic Broadcast Services productions.
Of course, Telecast and fiber optics were a critical component in delivering all those great images you saw. Jeff said: "The Telecast SHEDs where we can send six cameras back on one fiber, that system is fantastic. I’m pretty pleased with the way that was installed."
Head over to the Sports Video Group site for the full article.
The BC athletics department designed the a new facility with Little Bay Broadcast. The Sports Video Group recently published an article with a bit more detail on the system.
It is a great application of fiber to HD for Sports Video for a stadium and arena. It enables the fans to keep an Eagle Eye things.
As the Sports Video Group blog notes, our fellow sponsor Gepco International was recently acquired by General Cable. You probably aren't aware that General Cable actually made the first commercial low loss fiber optic cable back in 1974. When I was at Corning back in the early days we were just making multimode fiber (50/125 micron step-index, with an acrylate coating), but we had no way to ruggedize it. We teamed with General Cable, the largest independent telephone cable manufacturer, while our partner/rival AT&T were designing their own cable at Western Electric. The cable was a rather large steel armored telco design, and it was installed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and at Arnold Research Organization in Tennessee. That partnership dissipated as we at Corning went on to develop our own cable, the tactical (PU/Kevlar) Corguide-6, in 1975 for the Army.
General Cable was also the manufacturer of what Steve Nelson named Kermit, the small, green, friendly duplex patchcord cable used by CBS at the second Space Shuttle landing.
Our congratulations go out to both Gepco and General Cable on finding and teaming with such esteemed partners.
Save a million on your athletic facilities, how? A really easy way is to share one control room among big screens in your stadium and arenas, rather than building individual ones in each venue. All it takes is a powerful fiber infrastructure, at a fraction of the cost.
Let's meet to discuss how we helped big and small schools alike; schools like Nebraska, Michigan State, Stanford, Texas A&M, Florida State, Central Florida, Alabama and dozens of others.
On June 9th and 10th college and university video professionals, along with their conference, television, and online partners, will come together for the first-annual College Sports Video Summit (CSVS), held June 9-10 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel in downtown Atlanta. You will hear presentations and meet professionals from colleges, universities and sports networks.
We'll have a tabletop display there to show you how this gear works and how simple it is to install and operate. Please come and see us at this event that addresses College Sports Video like no other.
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