Sports news room for Olympic games in Sidney

NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg) lead managed all public radio broadcasting from the Olympic games in Sidney for the ARD network. Thum + Mahr was in charge of supplying the mobile studios, all IT systems and on site maintenance.

The complete installation had to be strictly mobile. For this reason the whole system was installed in flight cases. After training courses for NDR staff in Germany the system was shipped to Sidney and implemented by T+M engineers. For sports news reporting eight cubicles for editing and another two for advanced editing were installed. Mixing consoles were two DHD RM3200 and several Intellimix. All IT systems to run the DAVID editors and servers were also supplied by T+M. An overall network with 50 workstations needed to prove high availability for non stop life contributions from the games. The local master control mainly included one SAS router for audio, the ISDN codec cluster and the audio and database servers for DAVID.

The turnkey system was supported by two T+M crews throughout the whole games in Sidney. The most remarkable result: the system proved to be a zero-fault installation - which made NDR staff very happy and the T+M crew members very proud.

Implementation: December 1999 - August 2000