Deborah D. McAdams / 01.17.2013 03:10PM
Telestream Wirecast Streams Sailing Series Finale From Rio
OC Sport streamed live coverage worldwide
NEVADA
CITY, CALIF. -- Telestream said that its Wirecast live video production
software was used to stream live coverage of the Extreme Sailing
Series final Act 8 to worldwide audiences. OC Sport,
a global sports marketing company that specializes in professional sailing and
other outdoor events, selected Wirecast to broadcast the 2012 sailing circuit
to multiple online locations, including iOS applications, YouTube, and the Extreme Sailing
Series website. The Act 8 championship took place Dec. 6-9 in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
“In Rio, we experienced some of our
best racing since the series began over five years ago, and Wirecast allowed us
to stream for the first time in high-definition 720p video,” said Wez Maynard,
brand and marketing services manager at OC Sport.
The Act 8 sailing
finale was the culmination of 11 months of global touring to
major cities for the eight Extreme 40 sailing teams. OC Sport has helped bring
these events to worldwide audiences since the series inception in 2007. This
past year, Maynard wanted to expand coverage by adding live webcasts so that
fans could access the events on their computers, tablets, and mobile
phones. Wirecast is a complete live video
production software package which OC Sport runs on a laptop
computer. It also provides the ability to output live
streams to multiple distribution formats, and in Rio it was used to provide
feeds over a LAN to onsite VIPs for viewing.