My first cousin, Florence Hwang, works as a news librarian for the official TV station for the 2010 Olympics. I e-mailed her some questions that I hope to share the answers with you.
What is your job?
My job is to provide pre-approved past Olympic footage and news-related Olympic footage for our station and our affiliate stations. I primarily am a news librarian, not sports. If there is a news story that happens to be sports, I catalogue that story for our archives. If a story has Olympic footage, I make note in the record that we can only use this footage until a certain material rights related to the Olympics, once the games are over, go back to the International Olympic Committee. Because of this rule, we don't really stock Olympic footage.
What can you tell us about the IBC (International Broadcast Centre)?
It will have five TV stations... along with 7 control rooms, 21 editing suites... and more than 20 video logging positions. During the games 7000 broadcasters and technician from more than 100 countries will be producing over 5000 hours of live TV and Radio coverage from there.
What requests have you had in your job concerning the Olympics?
