By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 7:30 pm
It’s official. Bleacher Report can make anything cool. Even a parking deck. The digital-media giant has brought its football-branded vertical, B/R Gridiron, to Miami for Super Bowl Week, producing hundreds of hours of video and audio content, all originating from the top floor of a parking structure on Lincoln Road in South Beach where other […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 6:42 pm
File-based video formats is high-dynmaic range, standard dynamic range. Video resolutions ranging from 1080p to 4K and even 8K. Production trucks built on SDI and IP infrstarctures. There’s the full gamut of video workflows floating around the very busy production compound at Hard Rock Stadium for Super Bowl 54 and Fox Sports has entrusted the […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 6:33 pm
ESPN International is calling NEP’s EN2 home for Super Bowl LIV, a pleasant surprise for Jim Orton, ESPN’s operations manager, and the rest of the team. “When we heard we were going to be able to get these trucks for the show we nearly fainted,” says Orton. “We were shocked to be able to get […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 4:16 pm
Within the four walls of a professional sports franchise can be a pretty superstitious place. Things are no different at the San Francisco 49ers’ Santa Clara headquarters where one wouldn’t dare utter the words “Super” or “Bowl” prior to the team’s dominating win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game two weeks […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 1:41 pm
The halftime show at Super Bowl LIV at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium this Sunday will mark the first collaboration between the NFL and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. Performers Jennifer Lopez and Shakira were chosen in part to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, but Mr. Carter’s affinity for urban-music genres will be well-represented in […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Saturday, February 1, 2020 - 8:14 am
The NFL Network this year is embracing the at home production concept with three control rooms at its headquarters in Culver City, CA and a control room at NFL Films in Mt. Laurel, NJ, tied in closely with the sets and Game Creek production trucks that are located across South Beach and Miami.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, January 31, 2020 - 12:55 pm
Broadcasting from South Beach is nothing new for ESPN, which has studios at the Clevelander on Ocean Drive. And, for Super Bowl LIV, the broadcaster has upped its presence across the city, with two studios in Lummus Park across the street from the Clevelander and two on Radio Row at the Miami Beach Convention Center. […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Friday, January 31, 2020 - 11:17 am
What’s the point of producing a studio show on-site at a major event, if not to paint the picture of the host locale and to engross the viewer in all that makes it unique. That’s the belief of Fox Sports’ VP, Operations Rod Conti, whose team has outdone themselves with a set to behold on […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Friday, January 31, 2020 - 9:22 am
Three studios, two demo areas, two tower structures filling 9 acres of production and support workspace piloted by more than 350 production, technical, and support staff: Fox Sports’ studio activation in South Beach is a television achievement. Rod Conti, VP, operations, Fox Sports, gives a tour of the sets to explain how his team prioritized […]
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By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital | Friday, January 31, 2020 - 9:03 am
The Super Bowl is one of those events that annually raise the bar for what is possible (and, in the future, expected) in a live sports production. And Fox Sports has brought an ambitious operation to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL. Mike Davies, SVP, technical and field operations, Fox Sports, takes you inside […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, January 31, 2020 - 7:05 am
Verizon Media’s video streaming platform is the primary streaming workflow and delivery vendor for Super Bowl LIV. It will power live streaming on Fox properties (Fox Sports app, Fox Now app, Foxsports.com, and Fox.com) and the Yahoo Sports mobile app, to bring Fox viewers the big game in dynamic UHD HDR for the first time […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 11:37 pm
Canon Broadcast has a team of seven people on hand for the Super Bowl. The team not only is making sure nearly 55 HD and UHD lenses are operating at a top level but also has a role in the use of three Canon 8K lenses that are coupled with Sony UHC-8300 cameras to give […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 11:22 pm
Super Bowl LIV is only days away, and with it a new era in Super Bowl broadcasting will begin: the UHD/HDR era. Make no mistake about it: a UHD HDR Super Bowl — and which network would be the first to air it — has been gossip fodder since the first 4K sets hit the […]
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By SVG Staff | Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 10:43 am
Super Bowl LIV will be streamed from more places than ever before.
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By SVG Staff | Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 7:00 am
The biggest football game of the year is set to kick off this Sunday in Miami, Florida, at Hard Rock Stadium, a venue featuring multiple Daktronics LED displays. The four corners of the stadium will bring video content to fans while the longest ribbon board in professional sports will surround fans with information and graphics.
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