TECHNICAL SET UP AT LONDON



Olympic Torch

 All India Radio covered the recently concluded XXX th Summer Olympics in London from 27th July 2012 to 12th Aug. 2012 in a grand way. The coverage included the live running commentary on the opening and closing ceremonies, running commentary on India specific preliminary matches in Badminton, Hockey, and Tennis besides the semi finals and Final matches in Badminton, Tennis, Hockey and Football. Also, a daily highlights capsule of 25 minutes duration was broadcast covering all the sporting action of the day. Further, hourly updates of about 5 minutes duration was broadcast on the FM Rainbow network giving information about the happening events in the hour including live reports from the venues.

Olympic Opening Ceremony

For this coverage, AIR had booked space in the International Broadcasting Centre (IRC) besides commentary positions of the venues of interest. Two BRI ISDN lines, one Olympic Network Telephone and one wired Broadcast Internet connection were also book in the IBC. The equipment employed were the ISDN Codecs (MPAC-02/Telos/Swing/Phonetic Mobiles), Sony Mixer, DMX-POI, Nagra-LB Recorder for the voiceover /Local recording and NAGRA-SD recorder for field recordings and Laptop for editing/final capsule production. Two channels of one ISDN Line were used for Delhi, one connectivity for the running commentary and the updates, the two channels of the second ISDN line were used for the live reports from the venues during the hourly updates. Besides every day the field recordings of athletes/officials made on NAGRA-SD recorder from the venues were brought to the IBC transferred/edited on laptops and included in the daily highlights capsule.