Live from Super Bowl LIV: From South Beach to Hard Rock, NEP Keys Super Efforts

Live from Super Bowl LIV: From South Beach to Hard Rock, NEP Keys Super Efforts By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director

Sunday, February 2, 2020 - 2:30 pm

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The NEP presence at Super Bowl LIV is nearly 80 people strong as its companies like Bexel, CT, AVS, Fletcher, SOS, and, of course NEP's fleet of trucks play a role for everyone from NFL Films for the World Feed and more, Fox Sports for its South Beach Studio operations, Hard Rock Studio compound, and game coverage, and ESPN for its international feed.

Jason Newman, CT, business executive, says the NEP family of companies have worked closely together during Super Bowl LIV.

With Bexel here doing infrastructure and support of trucks, Fletcher in robotics, AVS doing wireless video, CT doing all of the LED screens on the South Beach sets, and NEP's trucks we've been able to find some efficiencies, says Jason Newman, CT, business executive. The pre-production workflows are less siloed, and we can have easier conversations about things like space planning in a production truck and coordination of freight, timelines, schedules, and then pre-populating the trucks gets us in the right space.

Truck wise NEP's EN2 is on site at Hard Rock Stadium for ESPN International and ST25 is onsite to support the stadium's perimeter video screens. Also parked in the international compound is Super B which is a hub for NFL Films signals, NEP EN1 which will be used to produce the World Feed of the game; Atlantic which is involved with NFL tailgate, N15 for the Game Day Fan Festival, and Denali which handles the halftime show.

Bexel played a vital role engineering and support role for the FATS (Feed a Truck Signals) cabin, arguably the hub of the compound as all signals pass into it and are then available across the domestic and international compound. It features an Evertz EQ26 with 544 744 inputs and outputs, Sony 4K monitors, Multidyne VF9000 fiber transport frames, Genelec 5.1 monitors, RTS KP5032 panels, and TSL PAM MK2 audio monitors. Bexel is also providing 27 Canon box lenses and Cuescript promoters.

CT's LED screens lit up Ocean Drive in South Beach as part of the Fox Sports sets.

Newman has been closely involved with the South Beach Studios project as CT played a crucial role in the 5mm video boards that are wrapped around two sets and measure 310 feet long, 16,432 pixels wide and have 12,287,000 active on-screen pixels.

It took a lot of structural and engineering sign off to get that done and then on the content side we had to work with Vizrt and go through the workflow, he adds.

The work CT, Filmwerks (who built out the sets), and Fox Sports raised the bar on Super Bowl week studio facilities as the use of the LED signage gave it a presence that integrated naturally within Ocean Drive on South Beach and its miles of neon signs, clubs, restaurants, and hotels.

Hopefully things like that will continue as it inspires the creatives, says Newman. The dollars and sense side are up to the marketing team to figure out how to use if branding and how to integrate that branding into the broadcast. As the week went on everyone learned the rhythm of how to use the screens best. We want to help broadcasters realize how to leverage them.

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