PESA systems route Super Bowl signals

Game Creek Video mobile units will use Pesa technology in the mobile units that will signal Fox

The company specialized in high-definition audiovisual services, Game Creek Video, will use in its mobile units deployed to MetLife Stadium (New Jersey) for Fox's coverage of the XLVIII Super Bowl on February 2, several solutions for routing signals. Pesa.

Jason Taubman, vice president of design and new technologies at Game Creek, highlighted that "75 percent of the company's fleet is in the New York area to cover the Super Bowl for various clients. In several of these units we will use video and audio distribution through Pesa routing systems."

FX, the production system comprised of five mobile units, will use a Pesa Cheetah 512x1024 digital video matrix with audio embedding and de-embedding, along with a DRS 2048x2048 distributed matrix with support for analog audio, AES and MADI.

Another unit, Liberty, intended to cover the preamp for Fox, includes a Cheetah 384x720 digital video matrix, as well as a 1536x1536 DRS router for analog audio, AES, and MADI.

For the Super Bowl, Game Creek Video will have 55 cameras and 24 six-channel EVS playback systems, plus 4K frame sync, compositing and effects sources and a “lot of new toys” that Fox will reveal during the broadcast, Taubman said. Production will take place in 720p HD.