1st August London 2012, time for streaming
A recent Riverbed Technology market survey showed that around one third of Europeans are following the Olympic Games form London online in streaming. The survey completed last April touched some 3,500 people and the forecasts were one out of five inhabitants of Europe would be online rather than watching the Olympics on tv, showing a hugely increased trend if compared to the previous edition. Another important factor is that half of such audience is not bound to stand two minutes delays in streaming or they are switching to alternative sources to watch the games. According to this survey the most followed sports are men's 100m (51% preferences), men's 100 freestyle (36%), and men's football finals (30%).
Open Source for media professionals
International Libre Software Meeting cured by the EBU held in Geneva in July was organized to show characters and limits of open source applied to the media world and media professionals. The dedicated section was Media, Radio & Television.
The workshop developed around experiences matured by EBU members and other media professionals employing Open Source softwares within authoring, recording, ingest, editing, management, memorizing, coding, play-out, streaming, and broadcast signals diffusion.
The way they are practically organized and utilized as instruments and which are their inner features and limits was central: a common knowledge shared bu EBU members and media markets experts confronting their expectations for the future.
A series of workshops offered in deep analysis on selected Open Source instruments used for professional graphics, the radio and television, by the BBC (UK), RAI (Italy), SVT (Sweden) and VRT (Belgium).
Piazza Beccaria in Milano with Euroarena, soccer village
For the recent European Soccer Championship 2012, Milan Municipal Authority created a multifunctional village where everybody could follow live matches involving Italian national football team.
A huge maxi screen model TL12 di 6.4 x 3.6 m allowed all soccer fans to follow their favorite players and for the final matches another giant screen was installed of 44 m² on Trailer in the famous “Piazza Duomo”.
Several other Italian towns like Novara and Genova adopted the spectacular Trailer TecnoVISION screens of 84 and 12 m², which seem very good solutions to involve thousands of spectators with live images of the these important sports events, while in Frankfurt a Maxiscreen TL12, of over 120 m² was installed within the stadium. The models involved in these locations were TL12 Concerto, Trailer Giant, Trailer Big, Trailer Mini for a total of over 250 m² installed contemporarily in Europe.
Videoreporter class, subscriptions open till 1st September
Italian Ordine dei Giornalisti della Lombardia (Lombardy Association of Journalists) together with “Freemedia Società Cooperativa” are organizing a three days full time course to teach how to create journalistic videos completely from scratch.
The class, called “Professione videoreporter”, is meant to supply both theorist and technical basis to any journalist and content provider seeking a job, or perfecting their skills in the news and sports media, a fast growing sector nowadays.
Classes are held on Saturdays 15th, 22nd and 29th September 2012 in the headquarters Via Paolo Sarpi 8 and Via Valtellina 63 in Milan. The cost is 200 Euros and a proper CV is needed to enroll along with the request which are to be addressed by 1st September 2012 to
