The Athens Olympic Broadcasting (AOB) Corporation was the Host Broadcaster for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, responsible for producing and distributing radio and television coverage of the Olympic Games. Coverage was provided as a service to Broadcasters who have purchased the Olympic Broadcast Rights from the International Olympic Committee and ATHENS 2004 to broadcast the Games in their respective countries.

ATC provided an archive library management solution based on Virage indexing solutions, and developed additional library management functionality such as integrated barcode scanning, and video label printing functionality. ATC also assumed overall project management, integration, training and on-site support during the Athens 2004 Olympics.

The system performed the indexing and storage management for the complete broadcast footage of Athens 2004.

Key project data:

• 40 Logger stations
• Continuous operation
• 60 feeds from agencies (Reuters etc.)
• 30,000 thousand of Hours
• Intranet digital library
• 10,000 DVCPRO tapes and DVDs

The project began in the first quarter of 2004 and was completed in the third quarter of 2007.