Facility becomes permanent home of NFL Live on Sept. 9; centerpiece studio for college football, NHLIn what the network is calling its most technologically advanced studio ever built, Studio W in ESPN's Digital Center 2 made its on-air debut Saturday, Aug. 29, during ABC college football halftime and wraps coverage. Studio W - the former home of NFL studio coverage and dedicated to Chris Berman and Tom Jackson in 2017 - has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up.
Studio W will become the permanent home of NFL Live (weekdays, 4 p.m. ET) beginning Wednesday, Sept. 9, and will also serve as the centerpiece studio for college football and NHL programming, as well as Fantasy Focus Countdown on NFL Sundays.
(Photos by Jon McLeod / ESPN Images)Studio W encompasses more than 9,200 square feet of LED displays, anchored by a purpose-built XR volume featuring roughly 44.7 million pixels alone. Desk displays and large-format touchscreens bring the studio's full pixel count to more than 148 million. It is also the first facility in Bristol capable of 1080p HDR and UHD production, running on a full SMPTE ST 2110 infrastructure.
The camera system was built from scratch. Using Sony HDC-5500 cameras and a custom integration developed at ESPN's direction, the system renders multiple perspectives of the same virtual world simultaneously, cycling them onto the LED walls at up to 480 Hz. Up to four cameras can shoot the same XR volume at once, with each camera locked to its own dedicated slice of the rendering cycle, each seeing only its intended image.
Studio W was designed and constructed by teams spanning ESPN Studio Operations, The Walt Disney Company Technology, ESPN Creative Studio, and additional internal groups. Engineers custom-built the rendering pipeline and rewired the entire studio. Designers reimagined the space from an aesthetic standpoint. The collaboration required eight months of work.
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