ABSTRACT
Covering live news events via traditional electronic news gathering/satellite news gathering technologies has been an expensive and logistically difficult business. Many traditional 53' trailers for outside broadcasts remain as a single expanding trailer facility with an adequate amount of equipment to meet client production requirements. At the home base production center, these feeds are ingested, de-multiplexed, decoded and treated as traditional sources feeding video production switchers, audio consoles and communications systems. Most sports venues have existing triax infrastructure still in place and functional from the analog days of Ikegami 355 and BVP-900 cameras. Recording bitrate and standard will vary with the remote production or client. The flexibility of the communications matrix allows all aspects of comms to be integrated into one system. The ability to network several audio console "surfaces" is very beneficial in large outside broadcast events. Cellular bonded/Ka solutions continue to dominate modern newsrooms and the combined cell/Ka-band technologies have shifted where TV stations spend their money.
