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Riedel RiCam Provides Live
POV At Ski Championship
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wireless camera solution,
developed by Riedel in
collaboration with host broadcaster
ORF, has played a pivotal role at the
Alpine Skiing World Championship.
The Championship, held in
Schladming, was broadcast live
using POV camera images from the
skier’s perspective for the first time.
Due to the size, weight, and safety
requirements in skiing, onboard
POV images from the athletes’
perspective were not possible. Riedel
Communications, also responsible
for the wireless transmission of live
video signals at Felix Baumgartner’s
stratospheric leap, has developed
a new type of camera for this
application. The patented wireless
camera solution RiCam is fully
integrated into the goggles’ straps,
allowing spectacular live images from
the perspective of the racers.
The RiCam solution consisting

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of
camera,
transmitter, battery
and strap weighs
only 64 grams and
is incorporated
aerodynamically
into the strap of
the ski goggles.
Special carbon
ﬁbre wings protect
the components
from the slalom
gates. For the
development
Riedel cooperated
closely with the
International Ski The RiCam promises to add additional ‘dramatic elements’
to sports broadcasts
Federation FIS,
the Austrian Ski Federation OSV, the
the new solution as live scenes
Race Directors Gunter Hujara and
from the rider’s perspective during
Atle Skardal as well as with several
the race and the impressions
manufacturers of ski goggles and
immediately before the start and
helmets.
after the ﬁnish line promise additional
FIS and ORF expect a lot from
dramatic elements.

NEP Supershooters Set For NASCAR Season
T

he Daytona 500 on February 24,
served as the ofﬁcial opening
of the NASCAR racing season,
with NEP Supershooters geared
up for its thirteenth year as mobile
broadcasting provider for NASCAR
Productions.
In addition to providing the

Aerial view of The Daytona 500

industry’s most innovative HD
mobile production capabilities, NEP
Supershooters applied its expertise
in ﬁbre optics to design and build
the fibre infrastructure for each
NASCAR venue, including huge
racetracks that require more than
150,000 feet of fibre.
“We value our on-going relationship
with NASCAR, and we’re honoured
to be able to provide technical
management, engineering, and
facilities for one of the most
complex sports broadcasts in the
US,” said NEP CEO Kevin Rabbitt.
“NASCAR Productions trusts us to
work with its rights holders and
other vendors to deliver a ﬂawless
show every week, and our 12-year

track record is a testament to the
engineering excellence, innovation,
and expertise that we bring
to every race.”
The Daytona 500 is the biggest
race of the year, comparable to the
Super Bowl in production complexity.
Since the Daytona 500 comes at
the beginning of the season, NEP
Supershooters is required to have a
large-scale, highly reliable and welltested system in place at the outset.
During the 2012 season,
NASCAR Productions deployed
NEP Supershooters’ SS29 mobile
HD A and B units to produce all
38 events in NASCAR’s premier
Sprint Cup Series.

MLSE Upgrades
To 5.1 With RTW
CAN:
Canadian
Hockey
Broadcaster, Maple Leaf Sports and
Entertainment (MLSE) is upgrading
their studios to 5.1 audio with RTW.
In need of a device that could
not only analyse meter levels in
5.1 but also measure loudness,
the team chose several TM7
To u c h M o n i t o r s f ro m RT W.
The 7-inch touchscreen audio
monitor provides the engineering
staff with the measurement data
necessary for keeping audio levels in
check during the many live sporting
events the network covers.

Super Bowl Action
For Grass Valley
USA: At this year’s Superbowl
broadcasters relied on NEP,
F&F Productions, Game Creek
Video provided coverage and
Grass Valley Live Production
s o l u t i o n s w e re d e p l o y e d .
Providing the world feed for
NFL Films was NEP’s SS25, using
a 4.5 M/E Grass Valley Kayenne
Video Production Center switcher.
The Kayenne also has a fourchannel ClipStore, based on the
Grass Valley K2 Summit media server.
SS25 was also equipped with a
192x160 Grass Valley Trinix NXT
routing switcher.

Hawks Switch
To Ross Vision
CAN: Philips Arena, home to the
National Basketball Association’s
Atlanta Hawks, has installed a Ross
Video 3 M/E Vision Production
Switcher to manage the arena
scoreboard and display systems.
The MLE Vision Production
Switcher is suited for stadium
applications; its unique AUX Keys and
Multi-Screen production capabilities
simplify the task of scoreboard and
multiple display management.

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