Turin (pps) The official television coverage of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin will amount to more than 900 hours. This figure was published at the second television network meeting in preparation for the Games in Turin. According to the event organizers´ estimations, more than three billion spectators will watch this program worldwide. Torino Olympic Broadcasting Organization (TOBO) was founded just for this purpose and will work with 1500 producers, camera people, technicians, picture and sound specialists, and other experts in order to produce the program.
In addition to the great number of employees involved, sophisticated technologies will be used such as 400 television cameras, 150 video recorders, 30 mobile production units and 700 edit suites.

The International Broadcast Center (IBC) will be in control of everything. Via fiber-optics, picture and sound data are sent from the competition venues to the IBC, where they are digitally processed in top speed (270 million bytes per second).
TOBO is an enterprise of the Organizing Committee for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin (TOROC), with the purpose of producing radio and television signals from the Games. Furthermore, TOBO will set up the International Broadcasting Center (IBC), coordinate the technical requirements and technical supply of the rights owners at the competition sites and at the IBC, and establish an archive of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin. This archive will then be handed over to the Olympic Television Archive Bureau (OTAB: www.otab.com), the official IOC television archives, for further management.