regardings Adam's elaboration on feeds and commentators locations..... CBC's main "hosts" for broadcasts are all located in Toronto this year. Many commentators are as well -- I presume Swimming as well because we've never seen Byron McDonald on camera this week. I'll see if I can find the article I read it in. I find that the hosts are carefully choosing words to not specifically state they are not in Tokyo.
FYI.... while USA loves gymnastics in primetime, the CBC has 2 hrs of swimming each evening -- every event from 930pm to ~11pm. On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:50 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 4:12 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Adam, do you think it is this Discovery coverage that NBCOLYMPICS.COM is >> streaming? The commentators all seem to have some sort of British accent >> (my ear is not good enough to rule out an occasional Australian or South >> African, and there was at least one Irish accent, though not sure which >> one). >> >> > No - I think that mix of accents, which will include people from multiple > English-speaking countries, is being provided by Olympic Broadcasting > Services (OBS). They're the company that provides everyone with the basic > feeds of the sport. Obviously larger broadcasters can supplement those > feeds with their own camera positions, close-ups of coaches etc. But the > idea is that if you buy coverage, you get a basic minimum. > > One part of that offer is what in the trade is usually called a "World > Feed" commentary team. And I think that the majority of sports get these > commentators. When someone hear earlier this year posted the big NBC press > release about who was calling what, that release noted that there would be > some "World Feed" commentary teams in place. Tell-tale signs are neutrality > about favoured nations (although they may cover English-speaking countries' > competitors a little more), and no reference to the network they're being > carried on. > > I watched the mountain bike races and there was a South African man and a > Australian woman doing the coverage. In the UK, both Eurosport and the BBC > used that World Feed commentary as neither really had their own experts. I > also saw some of the Women's Triathlon earlier on Eurosport and that too > sounded like a World Feed to me (Irish man/Australian woman, I think). > > One key thing to note is that the World Feed commentators from OBS are > often at the venues - which is much rarer this year. And even in normal > years, a lot of commentary comes from booths in the massive media centre, > rather than actually in booths at the events themselves. I'm not sure how > many people NBC have in Tokyo, but many events on the BBC and Eurosport are > being called from the UK/France (Eurosport's HQ is in Paris) rather than in > Japan. That's pretty unusual. Obviously there are still reporters on the > ground for interviews/features. But far fewer. > > If you want to learn lots of technical detail about how OBS operates, > there's a lot here: > https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/07/27/live-from-tokyo-olympics-obs-technical-area-offers-inside-look-at-how-the-games-come-together/ > > It's all being made in 4K, although in the UK nobody is showing it that > way. The audio is captured 5.1.4. The 5.1 is regular Surround Sound and the > .4 is for "ceiling" speakers - think Dolby Atmos without the branding. > Apparently there are 16 "channels" of sport being produced from Tokyo. So > that's the maximum number of simultaneous feeds you could be watching! > > > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDgPTHOH7-fWVmJ7EYMvur9f5XN4SdCesR77Jo49r1YUg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDgPTHOH7-fWVmJ7EYMvur9f5XN4SdCesR77Jo49r1YUg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Doug Eastick <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrTDhQSmYeVBuD0SY%3DqJvxx2bciqchfSn-g9XCQD8pO%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
