Sochi 2014 - Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

Massively lower travel and accommodation costs, and you need far less equipment on-site. The BBC are using standard techniques though by the look of it as they are single camera. NBC Today and CBC are presumably using low-latency fibre as they are remote multi-camera? You don't want delays on that kind of way of working - whereas single camera remotes can cope with it OK.

I think the English speaking stadium announcer during the closing ceremony is Radio 2
newsreader (and lottery stand in), Charles Nove ?

It's not Charles Nove he was on BBC R Oxford at 6am this morning.

Ha !! (Unless, he voice tracked that show, or presented it from Sochi, or is at Radio Oxford right now , anything is possible these days, see above) Probably not him though.

Wow a former BBC announcer working in my neck of the woods. Never knew that!

Noggin, CBC info here.

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/cbc-minimizes-olympic-production-expenses/223593

http://cbcrcblog.com/olympics/technical-innovation/?lang=en

So we got a full run through of the OBS sting to network then.

Very odd ending - almost like they didn't realise the OBS feed was going to end then.

That was the impression I got, it seemed they were expecting the feed of the closing ceremony to run a little longer. Once the ident started going out it was best to let it run. It also seemed they expected OBS to fade back to the fireworks after instead of fading to black, it was clear they hadn't got the unilateral ready to go on the vision mixer.

The host broadcast feed always fades to black after the closing titles, but rights holders are supposed to get a countdown to those titles, so they should have been able to cut away in advance. That said, I'm surprised OBS didn't keep their programme running until the end of the fireworks.

I'm reliably informed that it was John Cavanagh.

Normal BBC "big event" credits at the end...

http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/sochitrolley.jpg