From New Jersey, it's curling.(National Broadcasting Company Inc. coverage of winter sports)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 2006 by Dickson, Glen

NBC will be even more fascinated by its curling coverage than viewers will--if that's possible. In one of two cost-saving experiments, "Curling-At-Home," both the curling-venue control room and the daypart control room will be run out of CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The announcers and camera operators will be in Torino, but the producer, director and production staff will be in the Garden State.

To do it, CNBS will use a DS-3 (45-megabit-persecond) fiber-optic link and lots of IP-based communications gear from Telex, encoders from Tandberg, and video-processing and control gear from Miranda. "We will be moving four camera feeds to them, and they will push two video feeds back to us [for announcers to voice over]" explains Dave Mazza,...

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