NESN Puts WEEI Sports Radio On TV With Fiber-controlled Cameras

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Oct 27, 2011 11:57 AM, By Michael Grotticelli

For 8 years, New England Sports Network (NESN) has depended on Telecast Fiber Systems fiber-optic transceiver technology for its local radio coverage of the Boston Red Sox and Bruins games together with collegiate sports on a line network that covers 4 million homes in 6 New England states.

Beginning final November, however, NESN partnered with WEEI Sports Radio in Boston to break new belligerent in mixing radio and radio media and examination with remote-controlled fiber-optic technology.

WEEI, a of the many successful sports radio speak stations in America, right away does video simulcasts of the "Dennis and Callahan Morning Show" any weekday from 6 to 9 a.m. It's aired live on NESN in New England and after that in important time opposite the nation to 3.7 million viewers on NESN National.

This unique programming partnership brings together the two many renouned sports media companies in New England in ways that element the strengths of any organization. It - and other experiments similar to it via the nation - might vigilance a new direction in mixing the power of media assets.

For the show, NESN commissioned 4 remotely tranquil Sony BRC-H700 HD cameras with PTZ mechanisms related to Telecast Fiber's bidirectional 5400-series POV remote camera systems in WEEI's college of music in Brighton. The POV network allows video, audio, guard return, a genlock vigilance and duplex information is to PTZ camera manage to be amalgamated on the singular essential element connection.

Dark essential element granted by Sidera Networks feeds video signals back to the NESN HD Television Center in Watertown. In the Watertown manage room, NESN directs and switches the 4 video feeds and increase graphics, finishing the program. No crew is indispensable at WEEI during the recording. In the morning, before any show, the crew simply creates meeting with the WEEI staff by the intercom system.