Tonight’s The Night At ESPN…DC 2 Goes Live At 11
Tonight at 11, the brand new 194,000-square-foot, five-studio media center called Digital Center 2 goes live. ESPN’s current studio was built in 2004…it’s just a decade old and already is being treated as outdated. There’s more at the link to this Boston Globe story and at the ESPN link below. Thanks to ESPN’s Ray Balton for the heads up.
http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2014/06/serious-new-sportscenter-set-seriously-debuts-sunday/
In Case You Missed It…Another Look At The Vidifont System On Saturday, I posted the first article on television’s first character generator, but here is a much more illustrated article on Vidifont that I think you’ll like. Thanks to James Shea for sharing this in the Comment section a day or so ago. By the […]
‘Snap Judgement’, NBC Studio 8H…4, 5 & 6 of 12 Thanks to Bob Batsche, here are photos of a game show hosted by Ed McMahon taken in early 1969. On top, host Ed McMahon. In the center, three of the four cameramen take a break…L-R, Peter Basil, Art Graham and BJ Bjorkman. Bottom, cameraman Ken […]
TeleTales #13…”Some Like It Hot”, 1959 Did you know that when Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon first put on the female make-up and costumes, they walked around the Goldwyn Studios lot to see if they could “pass” as women? It worked, but just to make sure, they then tried using mirrors in public ladies rooms […]
‘Wheel Of Fortune’…Behind The Scenes, 1988 Part 2 This is great! We get to see how the letter board works and more of the TK47s in Studio 4 in Burbank, plus the M G Kelly announce opening with a classic RCA mic. In the latter half of this, we see Vanna and Director Dick Carson […]
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Interesting to see that my network, E!, led on this trend. Best of luck to SportsCenter.
This article has some good photos:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/22/espn-digital-center-2/
And these links have more technical info:
http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2014/05/svg-special-report-part-1-espns-digital-center-2-offers-treasure-chest-of-core-technology/#sthash.cF1detOC.uxfs
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/espn-opens-new-digital-center/270611
And a throwback to coverage 10 years ago when the current studio opened:
http://bit.ly/1ixMNuA
glad still a live operator !