Olympic Broadcasting Services Beijing effort, by the numbers

For the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Olympic Broadcasting Services will utilize a workforce of over 4,300 to produce 6,000 plus hours of content which will be distributed to rights holders around the world. 

Those hours represent a 7% increase in content from the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics with a variety of new tools at its disposal. 

For the first time at a Winter Olympics, OBS will feature a fully native UHD HDR production with 5.1.4 immersive audio. This will use an IP-based core system for the production workflow, similar to the 2020 Summer Olympics.

For coverage of curling, OBS will also trial a virtualized OB van in partnership with Alibaba and Intel.

By the Numbers

• 6,000+ estimated hours of content produced by OBS
• 900 estimated hours of sports and Ceremonies
• 41 HD contribution multilateral feeds
• 31 UHD contribution multilateral feeds
• 43 HD distribution feeds
• 36 UHD distribution feeds
• 660+ camera systems
• 148 specialty cameras
• 38 high-speed slow motion (HSSM) cameras
• 13 railcam systems
• 11 cablecam systems
• 10 multi-camera replay systems
• 33 Virtual Reality cameras (15 Live + 18 ENG)
• 25 ENG kits
• 1,624 microphones
• 15 Outside Broadcast (OB) vans
• 9 Datacentre production units
• 1 Fly-away system
• 8,684 km of cabling
• 38 broadcast organizations with individual space at the International Broadcast Centre
• 16 broadcast organizations with individual space at the Zhangjiakou Mountain Broadcast Centre

Olympic rights holders and others will work from combined space in Beijing

Photo and data via Olympic Broadcasting Services.