NOT ALL CAMERAS WILL BE MANNED DURING OLYMPICS

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	ALL OLYMPICS; ALL THE TIME Jun 17 2008
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NOT ALL CAMERAS WILL BE MANNED DURING OLYMPICS
Tuesday, July 8 2008

A British company which specializes in the manufacture and sale of remote camera systems and support systems for broadcasters said Monday that it is installing more than 200 high-definition camera systems for coverage of the Beijing Olympics. Shepperton-based Camera Corps said that it is fulfilling terms of a contract with Beijing Olympics Broadcasting, the Games' host broadcaster. It also is shipping 18 motorized tracking camera systems, remote camera heads, camera cranes, underwater cameras, archery target cameras (to be mounted in the bull's eyes), and a camera with a fisheye lens that will be installed above the Velodrome stadium to cover the entire track. The announcement seemed to indicate that many of the Olympics events to be covered on television and Internet video will not use traditional camera crews but remotely operated equipment instead.

NBC TO PROVIDE PLENTY OF RATINGS DATA DURING OLYMPICS
Monday, July 7 2008

NBC is planning a massive research effort to apprise advertisers of how effective they have been in reaching viewers during the Olympics via broadcast TV, cable, online, mobile, and video-on-demand platforms, the company's top researcher, Alan Wurtzel, said over the weekend. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Wurtzel said, "We need to demonstrate [to advertisers] that money spent on the Olympics was money well spent. ... Management said to me we have to (more)

NBC HELPS GE BRING GOOD THINGS TO LIFE
Thursday, July 3 2008

Although some analysts and investors groups have been urging General Electric to sell NBC Universal, noting that it makes a poor fit with the company's primary businesses, John Rice, president and CEO of GE's infrastructure division, has told Forbes magazine that the entertainment unit can open doors that would otherwise be shut to company executives. A particular case in point, Rice told the magazine, is China where the network's Olympics coverage has given GE an (more)