CNBC Tries “Curling-At-Home”

“In one of two cost-saving experiments, ‘Curling-At-Home,’ both the curling-venue control room and the daypart control room” for CNBC’s Olympic curling coverage “will be run out of CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The announcers and camera operators will be in Torino, but the producer, director and production staff will be in the Garden State,” Broadcasting & Cable reports.

“We will be moving four camera feeds to them, and they will push two video feeds back to us [for announcers to voice over],” explains Dave Mazza, senior VP, engineering, NBC Olympics. “We have two Tieline commentary codecs, and we also have Miranda’s iControl system for remote control, so the technical director in New Jersey changes the route on what goes home on the feeds…”