Broadcast Termination Panels Installed In Main Norwegian Football Stadia

OB Team, the outside broadcast arm of Norwegian broadcaster TV2, will find it easier to capture the nation's key football matches thanks to the introduction of a termination panel system that has been installed at four of the country's main football stadia.
Ing. Sivertsen, in collaboration with UK systems integration specialist Broadcast Networks, has designed, manufactured and installed termination panels for the four grounds.
The panels allow OB Team's trucks to simply park in their allotted slot and connect to an integrated cabling system that connects the OB vehicle to every part of the stadium. Having all the routing for audio and video systems, including links to the commentary box, already in place saves the OB crew an enormous amount of set-up time and removes the need to drape cables around the stadium.
The idea for the termination panels came from Ing. Sivertsen, whose founding director Dag-Olav Sivertsen has extensive experience of TV broadcast production-related installations. Since 2000 he has worked closely with OB Team and TV2 on various installation projects encompassing both outside broadcast vehicles and television studios.
In 2006, OB Team commissioned two new High Definition vehicles from the Professional Solutions Europe division of Sony, with all design, systems integration and project management handled by Broadcast Networks. This brought Ing. Sivertsen into contact with Broadcast Networks and sparked a collaboration that enabled Dag-Olav Sivertsen to develop his idea of an integrated routing system for football stadia.
Ing. Sivertsen has been carrying out stadium installations since 2002 and has now completed eight OB Team-ready installations, four of which were carried out before the company struck up a relationship with Broadcast Networks. The new Sor Arena was the first stadium to have the custom-built panels installed. All the cables, including those linking every camera position, the commentary box, the dedicated media zones and staff intercoms, were planned and delivered ready for use by Ing. Sivertsen. The cable installation company worked to Ing. Sivertsen's specifications and linked the 20 triaxial camera cables and 12 HDTV fibre optic camera cables, along with a number of audio and video lines, to the termination panels manufactured by Broadcast Networks.
These panels are located outside the stadium, thus making it very easy for OB Team to link up with similar panels on board its new HD trucks.
Ing. Sivertsen was subsequently commissioned to retro-fit similar panels at the three other stadiums.
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