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NFL Playoffs 2023: After Pulling Double Duty During Regular Season, NBC Sports Ops Team Kicks Off Wild Card Doubleheader in Jacksonville, Cincinnati

13/01/2023

NFL Playoffs 2023: After Pulling Double Duty During Regular Season, NBC Sports Ops Team Kicks Off Wild Card Doubleheader in Jacksonville, Cincinnati In addition to handling SNF, the NBC Ops team played a vital role on Prime Video's TNF package By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor

Friday, January 13, 2023 - 3:03 pm

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It has been a unique season for the NBC Sports operations team: it not only was tasked with delivering one of the biggest weekly live productions in the business with Sunday Night Football but also collaborated closely with Amazon Prime Video on its inaugural Thursday Night Football package. This weekend, NBC's team will once again be split, with the TNF crew on hand in Jacksonville, FL, with Game Creek Prime One and Prime Two trucks for Chargers-Jaguars and the SNF crew and NEP ND1 trucks handling Sunday's Ravens-Bengals game in Cincinnati.

NBC Sports' Tim Dekime (left) and Jenny Powelson on hand at the truck compound in Jacksonville for the first of NBC's two NFL Wild Card Game productions

It has definitely been an interesting and very different kind of year, says Jenny Powelson, director, remote technical operations, NBS Sports, who oversaw operations for TNF this season. Just getting brand-new trucks in time for our [broadcast] boot camp in L.A. and then getting to Week 1 was a major accomplishment. And then putting on such a massive show like that every week was very challenging. But this team is what made it all happen. Every single person on this crew was handpicked to be a part of this team, and we couldn't have done it without every one of them.

Plenty of Production Firepower for Super Wild Card Weekend Although SNF and TNF deploy a near-Super Bowl-level of production technology each week, NBC still found a way to add a few new toys to its NFL Super Wild Card Weekend productions.

We're excited to have two RF Steadicams for game coverage on both Saturday and Sunday, says Tim DeKime, VP, sports operations, NBC Sports. We have an abbreviated pregame show on both games because we're both in the primetime window; we are going to use the Steadicams from the pregame shows for game coverage as well.

Both games will feature field-side pregame-show sets for Football Night in America, with co-host Jac Collinsworth and analyst Rodney Harrison pulling their own version of Phil Collins's Live Aid stunt by providing live reports at TIAA Bank Field on Saturday before heading to Paycore Stadium for Sunday's game. Meanwhile, host Maria Taylor - along with analysts Jason Garrett, Chris Simms, Mike Florio, and Matthew Berry - will be back in the studio in Stamford, CT.

NBC will deploy more than 40 cameras for Saturday's game in Jacksonville and Sunday's game in Cincinnati - with the two camera complements largely mirroring one another. This includes 13 Sony HDC-5500's in 6X-slo-mo mode, five HDC-4800 4K cameras, two Sony HDC-P50 RF Steadicams on the field, and a Skycam Wildcat wired aerial system.

Since both games will have Sony HDC 4800 4K cameras shooting down the sidelines for close plays on the field, NBC's production team opted to forgo goal-line Pylon Cams this weekend. However, both productions will have 3G wireless RF line-to-gain cams on hand.

Saturday's game in Jacksonville will also feature a jib overlooking the stadium bowl, which the game in Cincinnati will not have. Saturday's game will have an extra EVS XT-VIA replay system at its disposal, bringing the number of replay operators to a whopping 17.

A Grand Sendoff for a Legend in the Truck Saturday's game will mark the end of an era, as Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Fred Gaudelli will be producing his final game in the truck (alongside director Pierre Moosa) after 33 years as producer of ABC's Monday Night Football, ESPN's Sunday Night Football, NBC's Sunday Night Football, and, more recently, Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video.

Sunday's production will be led by Coordinating Producer Rob Hyland and director Drew Esocoff, who will also handle NBC's Divisional Round playoff game next week out of ND1. The Prime trucks, meanwhile, will transition to Fox Sports, which will use the mobile units for its NFC Championship and Super Bowl LVII pregame shows.

On the operations front, Powelson is overseeing things in Jacksonville with Tech Managers Zaque Meyers and Jordan Keen handling the game production and Jess Fogarty and Myles Rich handling pregame. In Cincinnati, Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer John Roch is heading up operations with Ethan Balcer and Andrew Lawing as tech managers for the game production and Shaun Cooper for the pregame show. The operations team is led by Ken Goss, EVP, studio/remote operations planning, NBC Sports.
LINK: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/01/13/nfl-playoffs-2023-after-pulling...
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