2012 Olympics Television
• An estimated 4 billion people will watch the Games
• The host broadcaster, OBS, will provide 5,000 hours of core HD coverage to rights holding broadcasters
• OBS will capture the Olympics with 1,000 HD cameras, 50 OB trucks and 5,500 production staff
• The hub for the Olympics broadcast operation is the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre, which will be the largest single broadcast production centre in the world for the duration of the Games. The IBC will host 20,000 broadcasters, photographers and journalists. Its 12,000sq m catering village will serve 50,000 meals a day. The steel frame of the IBC is big enough to house five jumbo jets placed wing tip to wing tip.
• London 2012 is set to be the first Olympics to be captured with a fully file-based, HD workflow. Many events will also be captured in 3d and some in super hi-definition.