S2E12: Getting Games Ready

How do you prepare for the biggest sporting event in the world, ensure innovative ways of covering events, and deliver thousands of hours of content tailored to the needs of global audiences?

In this episode of the Making the Media podcast, host Craig Wilson talks in-depth with Trevor Piling from Olympic Broadcasting Services about the work of Olympic Channel News.

Our Guest This Episode

Trevor Piling is a seasoned sports broadcasting executive based in Madrid, Spain, working as host broadcast producer for Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS).

Trevor joined OBS in 2019 after a successful career in Canada where he was involved in the production of some of the biggest and most watched sporting events of the past twenty years, mostly working with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Trevor has worked at twelve Olympic Games and with OBS was the director of Olympic Channel News for the past three years, leading coverage at the Tokyo and Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Host: Craig Wilson

Producer: Matt Diggs

Social: Wim Van den Broeck

Theme Music: Greg “Stryke” Chin

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