by SVG News
New York-based CP Communications has purchased 17 DiGiCo S21 compact digital consoles. The acquisition of these consoles was mainly to support CP Communications’ ongoing work with Fox Sports’ and CBS Sports’ broadcasts of NFL and college football games, where they will primarily be used as effects submixers, with additional sports-broadcast applications expected in the future.
The consoles are assembled into flight-pack configurations for use in a variety of sports venue environments, taking full advantage of the S21’s compact form factor and the console’s processing power — based around its FPGA core and new ARM QuadCore RISC processor — allowing the S21 to be deployed in virtually any broadcast location and environment.
These 17 new DiGiCo S21 desks join the more than half-dozen DiGiCo SD10B broadcast consoles already in CP Communications’ inventory, being used in remote-production vehicles.
“The S21’s compact form factor was the most enticing thing about it initially,” says CP Communications Executive Vice President Kurt Heitmann. “But once you look deeper, the case for the S21 becomes even more compelling.”
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