College Football 2022 Preview: Fox Sports Boosts Home Run Production, Onsite Studio Footprint for Big Noon Kickoff Northwestern-Nebraska matchup in Ireland was produced from L.A. By Kristian Hern ndez, Senior Editor
Thursday, September 1, 2022 - 7:00 am
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As the calendar flips to fall, Fox Sports kicks into high gear with a full slate of college-football broadcasts. Beginning with the broadcast of Nebraska vs. Northwestern in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Aug. 27 and the start of the Big Noon Saturday schedule with tonight's Penn State-Purdue matchup (8 p.m. ET, Fox), the broadcaster will combine on-premises and remote workflows for the main game production and new elements in its heavy onsite presence for the Big Noon Kickoff pregame show.
Whether it be from [our facilities] in Los Angeles or Charlotte, NC, HRPs [Home Run Productions] have become a huge part of our business, says Dave Jones, director, technical and field operations, Fox Sports. It's a fun challenge, but it's important that every game gets the same amount of attention.
Emerald Isle Football: Pico Facility Handles Production for Game in Ireland For the first time in five years - Boston College and Georgia Tech faced off in Dublin on Sept. 3, 2016 - college football was broadcast from Ireland. For the season opener for both Northwestern and Nebraska, the broadcaster deployed its Home Run Production workflow and 10 cameras, including four at 6X super-slow-motion and one RF handheld. Because only four days separated that game from tonight's Big Ten nightcap in West Lafayette, IN - plus the uncertainties of circumstances of international travel when the game was announced in the spring - producing the Dublin show via HRP was the logical solution.
Fox Sports kicked off its 2022 college-football schedule with Northwestern vs. Nebraska in Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Aug. 27.
Operationally, Fox Sports' Pico facility in Los Angeles drove the bulk of the production with a small contingent of employees working from Dublin. Fox Sports VP, Field Operations and Engineering, Brad Cheney and Technical Producers Bill Moore and Tom Lynch led the onsite crew at Aviva Stadium. Tapping into the local workforce for close to 90% of the onsite staffers, the broadcaster worked closely with NEP Ireland on this broadcast.
A lot of [the workers] live in Ireland, notes Jones, but a couple people that are traveling from England have done some other work with us for NFL Europe and MLB games in London. NEP Ireland has been fantastic to work with, and the decision to do this game as a Home Run was the right one for this year.
Marquee Matchups: Alabama vs. Texas Headline Jam-Packed Week 2 Schedule Stateside, Big Noon Kickoff and Big Noon Saturday officially begin tonight but really get moving and grooving with No. 1 Alabama at. Texas in Austin on Saturday, Sept. 10. As one of the numerous headliners on Fox Sports' package of A games, this game will have Game Creek Video Gridiron mobile unit outside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and housing the three EVS operators. Inside the lower bowl of the stadium, the 16-camera complement will include end-zone pylon cams, an RF Steadicam, an additional handheld, and, potentially, other devices. For these high-profile games, all hard cameras will be Sony HDC-5500's at 6X speed.
Big Noon Kickoff begins tonight with Penn State-Purdue in West Lafayette, IN.
From a hardware standpoint, the traveling show that is Big Noon Saturday has to abide by the space available in each stadium. The challenge is finding real estate to put all of our gear, says Jones. There are some other cameras that we would like to use, but available space can be hard to come by.
Outside of the onsite production and operations teams, a handful of remote workflows will be deployed for this bout in the Lone Star State. Fox Box operation and additional statistical implementation, for example, will be done from the Pico facility.
On the talent side, Big Noon Saturday contests will once again be called by electric play-by-play commentator Gus Johnson, analyst Joel Klatt, and reporter Jenny Taft for the sixth consecutive year. New Fox Sports play-by-play commentator Jason Benetti was alongside analyst Brock Huard and reporter Allison Williams for the game in Dublin. Other personalities featured on college-football packages include Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman for University of Illinois vs. University of Indiana on Friday, Sept. 2; Noah Eagle and Mark Helfrich for South Dakota State vs. University of Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 3; Alex Faust and Petros Papadakis, who called UConn vs. Utah State on Saturday, Aug. 27; and Devin Gardner and Eric Collins for Cal Poly vs. Fresno State on Thursday, Sept. 1.
Heading to Campus: Studio Team Sets Up Onsite Pregame Presence One of the more fun aspects of Fox Sports' involvement with college football, Big Noon Kickoff will broadcast from a new campus each week of the season, joining the passionate fanbase of each institution for the first time. With host Rob Stone and analysts Brady Quinn, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, and Urban Meyer, the show will also feature the likes of Tom Rinaldi, Bruce Feldman, Clay Travis, Emmanuel Acho, Chris Petersen, and Mike Hill throughout the season.
Besides camera gear, NEP Ireland supplied the bulk of the onsite staffers in Dublin.
Creatively, the pregame show is adding a handful of toys to augment the viewing experience. Supported by Fletcher, the show will have new robotic-camera positions to show off the crowds in attendance. The crew for each telecast will be led by SVP, Production, Ken Camera; VP, Production, Bardia Shah-Rais; Coordinating Producer Jonathan Kaplan; Senior Producer Scott Riddell; and Director David Faller.
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College Football 2022 Preview: Fox Sports Boosts Home Run Production, Onsite Studio Footprint for Big Noon Kickoff Northwestern-Nebraska matchup in Ireland was produced from L.A. By Kristian Hern ndez, Senior Editor 
