Live From 2022 NFL Draft: Van Wagner Looks to Bring Vegas Style to On-Site Show on the Strip By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 4:20 pm
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After a fully virtual production in 2020 and a hybrid production last year, Van Wagner Sports & Entertainment (VWSE) Productions is back at the NFL Draft in full force this week in Las Vegas. While VWSE is continuing to support feed coming in remotely from draftees' homes and NFL team facilities, its presence on-site has returned to pre-pandemic levels to serve the hordes of fans on hand at the Las Vegas Strip.
On-site, we're pretty much back to full bore pre COVID from a fan experience perspective, says Nate McCoart, director, technical operations, VWSE Productions. We expect the site to be pretty packed over the couple days and we're looking forward to entertaining the fans.
VWSE Productions' Nate McCoart (left) and Bob Becker on hand at the NFL Draft in Las Vegas
McCoart says the team on-site is slightly larger than at last year's Draft in Cleveland and similar to pre-pandemic levels with 150-175 crew in Vegas. VWSE's main compound just behind the Draft's mainstage serves all facets of the show with NEP Denali Summit serving its main stage theater production and Denali California handling the Red-Carpet stage production. Bexel is on hand to manage the litany of fiber and signal transport across the show - from the compound to the Bellagio fountains to the red carpet. VWSE is also has an office space in the Forum for its creative team and is once again working with Thumbwar on all its postproduction workflows and storage infrastructure.
We have an edit team on site and whole slew more working remotely across the country on the postproduction side, says McCoart. So it's pretty amazing to see how that side of things has evolved over the past few years.
Ross Video is also on hand provided XPression and Tessera graphics systems for VWSE's main stage canvases on both the mainstage and Red Carpet. VWSE is also leverage a large XPression kit, several Carbonite Mosaic LED Video processors, and multipole Ultrix routers to manage the swath of LED video boards scattered throughout the strip at the Draft.
VP of Productions Brian Scott and Creative Director Aaron Fletcher are on-hand overseeing Van Wagner's monumental content creation operation.
Their team have done to make these screens and technology shine, says Bob Becker, EVP, productions, VWSE Productions. They are just black boards and computers without the stuff these guys do.
On the remote side of things, VWSE has worked with NFL Media to bring in live feeds from all 32 NFL teams facilities as well as the homes of 21 Draft prospects.
There was a major advancement made on the virtual side of things last year in Cleveland and, of course in 2020, says McCoart. We've adapted that virtual plan a with NFL Media this year and continue to enhance that part of the show.
This year NFL Media is sending camera crews to all prospects homes rather than sending a kit for the prospect to assemble on site. All transmission and distribution of these feeds will continue to run on TVU IP systems as they have in the past.
We're continuing the learnings of the last couple of years in the remote world mixed with a bit of a return to normalcy with folks being comfortable with having camera [operators] back in their homes, says McCoart. That provides a a little bit more control that to that world and is a bit of fresh air in terms operational coordination.
ESPN's Bristol, CT facility and NFL Media's HQ in Inglewood, CA will be able to bring in these TVU feeds directly for their studio productions - a major advantage so that these feeds do not occupy valuable transmission lines between the two sites.
It's been really exciting how the event has been able to spread across Vegas from the main stage at the Forum all the way up through Las Vegas Boulevard to the Bellagio Fountains and the red carpet, says McCoart. It's also great to get the band back together and see some folks in-person that we haven't seen in person in quite a while. It's a really fun event because it's so different from a traditional game. It's a genuine entertainment experience and that's what makes it unique. It's all about the spectacle and I have to say it's one of my favorite events of the year.
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Live From 2022 NFL Draft: Van Wagner Looks to Bring Vegas Style to On-Site Show on the Strip By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor 
