Let s Play Two: NBC Sports Delivers Pair of Outdoor Claics to Ring in the New Year
30/12/2016
Busch Stadium will serve as the home of the ninth NHL Winter Classic on Jan. 2
We've big fans of [the Winter Classic] from year one and we're very excited to also be presenting the Centennial Classic this year, says NBC Sports Executive Producer Sam Flood. Each game is an event in its own right, but the Winter Classic is very special. We knew right from the first one in Buffalo that it was something unique and had the ability to change the way people watch the game of hockey. We've turned it from a game into an event and, each year, embraced different locales. I think that's added up to a very important part of the hockey calendar in terms of exposing new people to the sport of hockey.
NBC Sports has been here before, of course. In 2014, the NHL Stadium Series required the Peacock production team to deliver back-to-back outdoor game telecasts at Dodger Stadium and Yankee Stadium on Jan. 25 and 26, and once again at Soldier Field on March 1 followed by the Heritage Classic at BC Place on March 2. However, this year, NBC has the added challenge of being the sole rights-holding broadcaster at the Winter Classic.
The biggest challenge this year is that NBC is the only rights-holding broadcaster producing the Winter Classic, says Ken Goss, SVP of Remote Operations & Production Planning, NBC Sports Group. In years past we've been able to find efficiencies with the other rights-holders on-site, but this year we are responsible for everything, which requires more equipment and personnel. We then will re-deploy all of our equipment back into rotation to cover the rest of our regular-season games, and have games on Jan. 3 and 4.
Celebrating a Century of Hockey in Toronto
First up, NBC Sports will team up with primary broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet to produce the Centennial Classic on New Year's Day at Toronto's BMO Field - a soccer-specific stadium that is home to the MLS's Toronto FC (as well as the CFL's Toronto Argonauts).
This is our first outdoor NHL game in a true soccer stadium, says Goss. One challenge is that we don't have a true end zone position due to configuration of stadium, but we are able to work around it with a slash position.
NBC, which will have a crew of 60 on hand, will utilize NEP ND6 as its primary mobile unit. NBC will deploy a total of nine unilateral cameras as well as take feeds from Sportsnet and TVA. Among the cameras will be a Sony HDC-4300 high-speed cameras, an RF Sony HDC-2500 handheld, and a Sony P1 robo. Sportsnet will provide variety of specialty cameras, including a RefCam, CableCam system, aerial helicopter shot and two robos, while TVA will provide netcams.
NBC's pregame coverage of the Centennial Classic, which kicks off the league's year-long Centennial celebration, will be anchored by Kathryn Tappen and analyst Jeremy Roenick. Since the pregame coverage will primarily feature the Centennial celebration, NBC will not deploy a full on-site set at BMO field. Once the puck drops, John Forslund (play-by-play), Brian Boucher (analyst), and Pierre McGuire (Inside the Glass) will call the action.
This gives us an opportunity to celebrate 100 years of the NHL - the greatest hockey on Earth, says Flood. So we're going celebrate some of the stars that made the game great in its early years. And Toronto is the home of hockey with the Hockey Hall of Fame and two of the league's primary offices there. Plus [the Leafs] have got a team that's improving dramatically with some great young talent, so it adds the dimension that Toronto is relevant again as hockey city, not just as a home of hockey. I think celebrating in the backyard of this city at an outdoor soccer stadium, which will be very intimate for hockey, adds up to a perfect day of pucks - as long as the weather cooperates.
Meet Me in St Louis: Dropping the Puck on the Ninth Winter Classic
The next day, NBC will kick it into high gear as the sole rights-holding broadcaster for the Winter Classic at Busch Stadium - home to the St. Louis Cardinals.
NBC's massive production will run out of NEP's ND 5 and Super B mobile units and feature 130 crew members. Goss and company will deploy a total of 31 cameras, including two HDC-4300 cameras running at 6x-slo-mo, a RefCam (worn by referee Tim Peel), a Skycam Wildcat system, two RF Sony HDC-2500 handhelds, three Sony P1 robos, two netcams, and a fixed-wing aerial shot.
To me the most important camera for the outdoor games is the overhead live shot, which gives you even a bigger perspective than the Skycam, says Flood. We've gotten better with the sky cam. I think it shows the speed and the pace and it can follow the play off ice and it's a lot of fun to watch it. So, I think we really know how to use that now. But there's still nothing better than a shot from the airplane. A goal is scored and you see the entire stadium in the moment from that perspective.
In addition, NBC will deploy Ross Video's virtual graphics/augmented reality system for the first time on an NHL game. with Ross Video for the first time in a NHL game.
As has become standard on larger NBC Sports shows, the remote production will be tethered heavily to NBC Sports' broadcast center in Stamford, CT, moving upwards of 1 Tb of file-based content for the Winter Classic.
For the second consecutive year, NBC Sports Group will produce the Winter Classic in 5.1 surround sound.
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