Technical Production Facilities & Transmission Services For Winter Universiade Turkey 2011

FISU

What we do

Gearhouse Broadcast was awarded the contract to provide the technical production facilities and broadcast transmission for the 2011 25^th Winter Universiade. The games took place in Turkey between 27 January and 6 February 2011 and involved close to 3,000 athletes from all over the world. The Organising Committee approached Gearhouse Broadcast when they were looking for a broadcast solutions specialist to cover the Games opening and closing ceremonies, along with all the outdoor snow events.

What we used

Working closely with the Organising Committee, Gearhouse Broadcast provided high definition technical facilities and expert staff for each of the seven snow disciplines – Alpine, Biathlon, Cross Country/Nordic Combined, Sky Jumping, Ice hockey, Snow Boarding and Free Style Skiing.

For the outdoor events, Gearhouse Broadcast provided state-of-the-art HD Outside Broadcast (OB) facilities. Each unit was equipped with:

8 HD Sony HDC-1500 cameras
Sony HDC-3300 Super slow-motion cameras
EVS XT2+’s.

Additional equipment included a CAMCAT high speed camera at the Ski Jump and a 100m Rail Camera at the Cross Country.

For the opening and closing ceremonies, Gearhouse Broadcast provided 12 mainline Sony cameras and a HD Spidercam suspended 70m above the stadium. Two cameras were mounted on Jimmy Jibs whilst the two Steady Cams utilised the Riedel Radio Link System.

In addition to the core contact, Gearhouse built and staffed the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) as well as providing location services such as studios and up linking facilities. The IBC facility comprised of:

Master Control Suite
Quality Control Suite
6x Final Cut Pro Edit Suites
Server based Media Management system
HD Studio
Digital Editing and Storage
Format exchange
DSNG Satellite facilities
Satellite Farm to Up-link outgoing program feeds

Production from the IBC was distributed to EBU for worldwide distribution and by TRT (Turkish State Broadcaster) for the Turkish market.

The solutions were supported by a technical and engineering crew of 200 who were deployed across the seven different venues for the 10 day event.

Outcome

The international multi-sport event provided plenty of thrills for those watching at home, as well as for those who attended the venues themselves, thanks to the bespoke, cost-effective, flexible solutions provided by Gearhouse Broadcast’s team of experts.

Technical crew played a key supporting role in ultimately ensuring seamless delivery of all footage and audio to FISU & broadcasters working from the Universiade.