Durham, N.C.– February 8, 2018 – NBC Olympics, a division of the
NBC Sports Group, has selected SMT to provide real-time, final results and
timing interfaces for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which
take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, from February 8 – February 25. The
announcement was made today by Dan Robertson, Vice President, Information
Technology, NBC Olympics, and Gerard J. Hall, Founder and CEO, SMT.
Since 2000, SMT has been a key contributor to NBC Olympics’ productions
by providing results integration solutions that have enhanced NBC’s
presentations of the Games via on-air graphics, scheduling, and searches for
content in the media-asset–management (MAM) system.
For the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, SMT will deliver TV graphics
interfaces for NBC Olympics’ Chyron Mosaic systems in its coverage of alpine
skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, short track speed
skating, speed skating, bobsled, luge, skeleton, ski jumping and the ski
jumping portion of Nordic combined.
SMT’s Point-in-Time software system integrates live results to allow
commentators to locate a specific time during a competition in both live and
recorded coverage. The software graphically shows key events on a unified
timeline so that NBC Olympics commentators can quickly see how a race began,
when a lead changed, where an athlete’s performance improved, and the kinds of
details that dramatically enhance the incredible stories of triumphs and
defeats intrinsic to the 2018 Winter Games.
“The complexity and sheer amount
of scoring, tracking, and judging data that comes with an event of this size,
both real-time and post production, is beyond compare,” said Robertson. “The
ability to organize and deliver it aids NBC’s production in presenting the stories
of these amazing athletes, and requires nothing short of the capabilities,
innovation and track record of SMT.”
“It is our privilege to provide our expertise, experience, and results
reporting technology for NBC Olympics’ production of the 2018 Olympic Winter
Games, SMT’s 10th straight Olympics,” said Hall. “Our team of 10 on-site
engineers have rigorously prepared for PyeongChang with a tremendous amount of
testing and behind-the-scenes work, ensuring SMT delivers seamless services of a scope and scale
unprecedented in a sports production.”
SMT’s partnership with NBC Olympics began with the 2000 Sydney Games and has
included providing graphics interfaces as well as NBC’s digital asset
management interface that helped the network receive Emmy Awards for
“Outstanding Team Technical Remote”, following the 2008 and 2016 Games.
About
NBC Olympics
A division of the NBC
Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and
promoting NBCUniversal’s Olympic coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed
Olympic heritage, award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the
largest audiences in U.S. television history.
For more information on NBC
Olympics’ coverage of the PyeongChang Olympics, please visit: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/
About SMT
SMT, a leading innovator and supplier of
real-time data delivery and graphics solutions for the sports and entertainment
industries, provides clients with cutting-edge storytelling tools to enhance
their live sports and entertainment productions. SMT’s technology for scoring,
statistics, virtual insertion and messaging for broadcasts and live events has
been used to enhance the world’s most prestigious live events, including the
Super Bowl, major golf and tennis events, the Indianapolis 500, the NCAA
Tournament, the World Series, and NBA, NASCAR, and NHL events. The 31-time Emmy
Award-winning company is headquartered in Durham, N.C. For more information,
visit smt.com.