Live from the US Open: Gearhouse Broadcast Serves Up Tech for Multiple Clients

Live from the US Open: Gearhouse Broadcast Serves Up Tech for Multiple Clients By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director

Friday, September 6, 2019 - 1:07 pm

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Gearhouse Broadcast in once again supporting ESPN's efforts (and those of others) at the US Open. The biggest advances at this year's US Open technically have been centered around ACES, the automated production area that handles the outer courts. The nine teams that handled those courts were moved to a new second floor that was added with the addition of voice over booths as well as a second audio room and increased media management capabilities that gave a lot more feeds to those teams.

External beauty cameras were added as well as Hawkeye line calling as ESPN was very conscious that the high-percentage of their output that is produced from the outer courts has production values that are as high as possible, says Ed Tischler, Gearhouse Broadcast, managing director.

Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium also received a technology refresh this year as Sony HDC-4300 cameras, Sony P43 cameras, and Panasonic AW-UE70 PTZ cameras have been deployed in both. Tischler says that the other big change this year was the move to Grass Valley Maverick and Kahuna production switchers, laying the groundwork for a technical plant that can meet the unique needs of ESPN's domestic broadcast, the world feed team, and the unilateral rights holders that are on site.

Those switchers will help with any future move to an IP world where multiple program cuts can be done without having to commit to a single format because FormatFusion can do multiple outputs and formats, says Tischler. Everyone can choose what they want to do as the facility will be format agnostic and forward looking.

It's a multi-client universe for Gearhouse at the US Open as they also provide the technical backbone for Wowow, Eurosport, and Prime which is streaming the US Open in the UK.

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