5
Apr
Still on a high from the “Vasaloppet” production, Mediatec sped into their next skiing adventure. This year’s final of the “Ski Classics”, was held at Norefjell in Norway, not far from Oslo, where the World Skiing Championships finished a couple of weeks ago. The winner from Vasaloppet, Jörgen Brink, also attended Norefjell, to test his stamina in an extremely tough competition, with a course stretching 65km of mountainous landscape.
Mediatec worked with IEC, supplying the host feed with our flagship truck HD1, sixteen cameras are hooked up to the unit. In addition, Mediatec also provided two uplinks, with three additional cameras on each site.
“Due to the terrain and lack of local infrastructure, it was necessary to use uplinks to distribute the signals from distant parts of the track”, said Mediatec’s production coordinator Axel Engström, who was also responsible for co-coordinating three snowmobiles with wireless cameras, a helicopter and a relaying airplane. Axel was part of a fortyeight men team provided by Mediatec to bring this spectacular race to television audiences across the world.
As well as the Ski Classics, Mediatec accomplished other productions in the same weekend, covering events such as Football, Handball, Ice hockey, Basketball, a concert and a corporate event. Another busy weekend down and dusted!
Posted in Hd, Hd1, Outside broadcast, Broadcast.
17
Mar
In association with SIS LIVE, Europes largest HD and SD Outside broadcast and satellite uplink provider, Mediatec was thrilled to supply broadcast equipment to the Barclays Premier League match between Sunderland and Tottenham on February 12th 2011. Harry Redknapp’s boys maintained the pressure on their rivals in the hunt for Champions League football with a 2-1 win at the Stadium of Light.
Mediatec delivered a 24-camera production unit controlled by its HD1 broadcast trailer, one of the most sophisticated OB-units in Europe. Having also been utilised at the Olympics games, the unit required an eight-strong team of Mediatec technicians to operate it.
Mediatec also supported the Spanish broadcasting association FORTA, in the UEFA Champions League match between Arsenal and Barcelona, A 7-camera production unit, with 4-feeds for different Spanish TV-channels were supplied. Solutions for four commentator’s positions were also delivered.
Posted in Hd, Hd1, Outside broadcast, Broadcast.
11
Mar
The 11th to 12th of March it time for the annually Freestyle FIS World Cup in Åre, the Swedish Mecca of winter sports. It´s the fourth time in a row this event is held. Just like the world elite all the Swedish best athletes will compete, totally around 100 precipitants in the different events.
Mediatec delivers the HD6 broadcast trailer with 10 cameras to make this event public for the masses at other venues, it´s the Swedish national television (SVT) who will broadcast the event during the days of competition.
Posted in Outside broadcast, Broadcast.
4
Mar
The first Sunday in March every year is traditionally the day of the ski race, Vasaloppet. The race first took place in 1922 to honor the Swedish king “Gustav Vasa” who is said to having escaped Danish troops by skiing through the forests of Dalarna, where the race now is held between the villages Sälen and Mora.
The main race on Sunday usually draws more than 15 000 participants in all categories struggling to finish the race as fast as possible. The winner usually crosses the line after about 4 hours of hard work, when the majority of the skiers still have many hours to go. During the week about 59000 people participate in different ski events.
To cover this race for SVT, Mediatec has 31 cameras along the track all connected to the same truck. The truck is the Mediatec unit HD2, with a workspace for 30 persons in one single unit.
To be able to run the cameras over such long distances Mediatec has developed a way to connect the cameras to the local fiber network and still remain in full control of all the camera functions such as paint control, tallies and communication. The fiber devices have a proven track record from earlier events such as alpine skiing, biathlon and city marathons.
Jens Envall, chief engineer at Mediatec says:
-“Since the truck is parked at the midpoint of the race most of the fibers have enough light budgets for the GVG cameras. At the start and finish line we use a multiplex solution, still with full control, called Geckoflex from GVG.
We have long experience of doing the race for SVT but this is the first time we do it with just one unit and it is a very complex setup involving wireless cameras, helicopters, SNG units and of course a lot of fiber networking.”
To give the live audience the ultimate enjoyment Mediatec delivers three Mobile LED Screens in different sizes. As a complement to the TV-production Mediatec supply a 9-camera production exclusively for the screens. During the whole week the common people can follow their relatives live through IP-TV from the check-points Sälen, Mångsbodarna, Evertsberg, Oxberg, Hökberg and Eldris
Mediatec are proud to be forerunner in modern production techniques by pushing the limits of technolgy making production safer, easier and using less crew.
All for the benefit of the client.
Posted in Fiber, Outside broadcast, Sng units, Wireless, Broadcast, Mobile led screens.
