Finished the set-day at the World Series around 9:00p.m. last night. A long day - spent most of it standing around waiting for Comerica Park facitlities to construct annouce booths on the mezzine level of the park. They actually built small booths out of plywood with plexi-glass windows. There are about 7 to 10 of these throughout the mezzine level of the park. The booths accomodate International television and radio broadcasters including: ESPN Intl, Televisia, Fuji, NHK, and the BBC. Whoever laid out the original plans for these booths under specked them, they are maybe 6ft wide by 8ft long. It will be difficult to fit two or three announcers, a producer and a stage manager but we are gonna try!
The next bottleneck was waiting for MLBI to set-up the announce gear. They are using a fiber based system to provide audio and communications to and from the announcer postions. It's a very cool system that connects each booth via a single gigabit ethernet connection locally, (within announcers area) then fiber Telecast to a production truck outside the park. From this point all audio and communications is down converted to analog and sent to the individual production trucks for each network (i.e.Fox,ESPN). Thanks to Randy from Relay House our production facilities guy!
Lots to do today - still have to verify all connections, tweak mic settings and make sure all communications systems are working. Then I think there is some kind of championship game or something.
Take a look at these photos taken from my cell phone: (They mostly show various crews taking a break from set-up to check out the park. Plus a couple of sat units.)
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