So You Want To Work In TV

At the games there are many folks working to make the TV production come out right. Additionally there are miles and miles of cables to be run, strung and plugged in. Here are some shots showing some of the behind the scenes at the Olympics in Torino.

TOBO {Torino Olympic Broadcasting Organization} is producing something like 900+ hours of live TV, spanning 80+ events and using 400+ cameras. Just alone at the two venues I am at we are doing more than 25 hours of live coverage at each. Although that might not seem like a lot if you consider there were about 7 ski jumping events that is 3.5 hours per event which is about an hour longer than a good baseball game.

In these pictures you see part of the YLE crew from Finland prior to starting the coverage of a Cross Country Event. You also see all the cables that are run from the field of play to the truck in order to get coverage. In some of these cables there really conduits where there are multi's on the end so that 12, 32 or 48 more items can be plugged into one of the thicker black cables.