Texas Rangers Open Doors to Globe Life Field With Full-IP Control Room With the help of Lawo, the MLB franchise is forgoing a hybrid approach By Kristian Hernandez, Associate Editor
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 10:53 am
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After the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start of the 2020 MLB season, baseball fans in the Lone Star State had to curtail their excitement at watching their Texas Rangers take the field in their new home. After a near four-month wait, the league's first full-IP control room will be more than ready to go on Opening Day Friday, July 24, when the ballclub hosts the Colorado Rockies at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
We are deploying an IP-based routing system with Lawo, and it will be one of the first of its kind, says Chris DeRuyscher, senior director, ballpark entertainment and production, Texas Rangers. We've decided to jump in with both feet, so we're not a hybrid.
Early Stages: WJHW, Diversified Build a New Ballpark in Arlington Built across the street from Globe Life Park, Globe Life Field will host its first official MLB game on Friday, July 24.
Three years ago, the organization began searching for possible partners for this new endeavor. Over time, the process produced the two vendors chosen to complete the job.
WJHW was the consultant on the project, DeRuyscher explains. They hired Diversified Systems to integrate the control room, which they've done a great job with. WJHW put together a great plan, and Diversified did a great job to execute it. We've been really thankful for the team that we've assembled on this thing.
Prior to the national sports shutdown, both venues under the Rangers' jurisdiction were quite busy with activity. Globe Life Park, the franchise's home from 1994 to 2019, was housing the team for normal operations while the new stadium was under construction.
The new ballpark features three videoboards, including the previous stadium's left-field display in centerfield.
We were given the best of both worlds, he says. We were editing, producing, and doing everything we needed to do [in Globe Life Park] until [the contractors] said, Okay, you guys are good to go to come over here.' We were truly [operating] between the new and old ballparks because we were going to be jumping back and forth for the foreseeable future.
Unlike with a majority of one-sport venues, the transition was a bit different because athletic events were being produced in the older venue. Before the XFL dissolved, the team was still going full bore with home games of the then Dallas Renegades. To do this, DeRuyscher split his department into two sections: one spearheading the 1-mile move into their new digs and one holding down the fort.
We promoted one of my employees, Mandy Lawson, to director of event production, he says. She was in charge of all non-Rangers events, which included the XFL and now includes minor-league soccer team FC Dallas, North Texas SC, and concerts.
More Than IP: Control Room Boasts HDR Capability The control room for in-venue operations is located beneath the upper deck near the third-base side. Although the full-IP workflow is the headliner in this newly minted space, other elements are also worth considering.
Ross Video's Acuity production switcher is at the helm of this Lawo IP control room.
The crew will be using a Ross Video Acuity production switcher, multiple EVS replay servers, Sony cameras (HDC-3100L, HDC-3500L, FS5's, and an FS7) with Canon lenses (UJ90X9B, P01-DSS, and CJ24ex7.5BIRSES), Riedel Communications Bolero wireless intercom, and Quantum storage servers. On the software front, the team will leverage Daktronics Show Control and Live Clips Player, Ross Xpression for computer graphics, and MAM services from CatDV.
Following another trend, the organization is making the leap from HD to HDR and outfitting its production equipment will full-HDR capabilities.
Instead of having Ross machines drive all of our videoboards, says DeRuyscher, we went with Daktronics' new Show Control system, which includes the Camino product. We are going to be doing a lot of the things people were doing in Ross Xpression. This Camino product basically [allows] us to fly through 3D spaces and use [Maxon] Cinema 4D. These will be things that I know our fans have never seen before but also things that some people haven't seen out in the market in general.
Board Work: MLB's First Home-Plate Digital Signage Below the massive retractable roof, Globe Life Field features LED videoboards in our separate locations. One of the four will look very familiar to anyone who attended games in the previous ballpark.
We took the left-field videoboard at Globe Life Park [to] be our centerfield out-of-town scoreboard, says DeRuyscher. It's 80 ft. high by 21 ft. wide and is the only thing we're taking over [to the new stadium]. We put that videoboard in in 2016 so the components are still good.
Daktronics Show Control drives all LED signage at Global Life Field, including MLB's first display behind home plate.
Because of the massive size of the stadium, some fans seated in right field and left field will have an obstructed view of the centerfield board. To solve this issue, a 39- by 110-ft. left-field videoboard and a 57- by 157-ft. right-field videoboard were erected to accommodate every seat in the house.
At Globe Life Park, we have a giant right-field board, he notes, but that board is smaller than our left-field board at Global Life Field, and the videoboard in right field at Globe Life Field is gigantic with a ton of LED. We'll also have a monstrous ribbon board that runs along our main concourse from foul pole to foul pole.
This main-concourse ribbon board is 2 ft. by 916 ft., but an entirely new element, a firs
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Texas Rangers Open Doors to Globe Life Field With Full-IP Control Room With the help of Lawo, the MLB franchise is forgoing a hybrid approach By Kristian Hernandez, Associate Editor 
