With the selection of Lawo's VSM and its LCU, Lawo's IP Commentary System, NBC Olympics will implement new, enhanced control flexibility at both the NBC Olympics production compound within the International Broadcast Centre in Rio, and for the NBC Olympics' studios in Stamford, Conn.
VSM will be the overall control system for NBC Olympics' core routing and tally management, connecting to multiple 3rd party devices on an IP backbone, utilizing approximately 80 LBP hardware panels and 80 GUI-based VSM Panels accessed from various monitors and tablets provided throughout NBC Olympics' various production facilities.
"In going through the collaborative design process with NBC Olympics, it was critical that we had the ability to customize the overall system to support the workflows they wanted, while also providing the flexibility to grow the system as technologies evolve in the future," says Mark Whitman, Lawo Inc. VP of sales.
"We're pleased to have the opportunity to work with NBC Olympics from the design stage all the way through to implementation, and utilize a range of Lawo products and software to create an innovative remote production solution that addresses NBC Olympics' objectives for these games and can also carry on into the future and continue to evolve and support new workflows."
(Jim Evans)