A summary of ideas of different levels of arena and tv production you can have at your event.

1. Arena and TV Production
Henning Spjelkavik

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Who is your audience?
what the spectators cannot see?
tell the world what is going on?
– Spectators in the arena
– Orienteers at home
– Sports-loving non-orienteers
– Entertainment seeking public

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What’s your ambition level?
• Audio streaming of speaker
• Video streaming
• a broadcast TV productio
• 30 to 300.000 EUR

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Live results
• If you don’t have anything, try the Swedish,
open source system:
EmmaClient
Adapters for SportSoftware, OLA, general IOF
XML, eTiming (in beta)
http://emmaclient.codeplex.com/

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Case 0 - Audio streaming
• Sound input
– Preferred: Audio cable from sound mixer
– Alternative: Well placed microphone
• Icecast on server
• Edcast on a laptop with sound input
• at least 50 kbit/s uplink
• http://www.icecast.org/3rdparty.php

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Case 1 – Really cheap
• USB Webcam
• Ustream
• Good laptop
• Internet connection (> 500 kbit/s)
• Sound from speaker (cable from mixer)

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Case 2 – Small production
• USB Webcams, capture card(s) or IP cams
• Vision switching (“video mixer”) software
– Vidblaster
– vMix
– Wirecast
– Livestream
– Ustream

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Case 3 – Arena production
• ATEM switcher, small SDI mixer
• SDI cables
• SDI/HDMI cameras with converters

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Case 4 - Broadcast
• OB van
• GoPro pre-produced
• Graphics and animations, pre-produced
• follow-cam, “near live”
• real live – links, IP camera etc

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Examples
• Ski-o World Cup, World Cup Kongsberg
• ESOC
• Tiomila
• Jukola
• WOC 2014

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«If sport is not working on TV, is not attracting an
audience, is languishing, the problem lies with the
people controlling that sport. They either have failed
to keep that sport vital and alive, through laziness or
mismanagement, or they have allowed people
presenting the sport to the public through television to
get away with sloppy, lazy or inattentive production.»
David Hill, Chairman & CEO, Fox Sports TV
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