by Brandon Costa, Director of Digital, SVG News
Fox Sports has finished construction of their filming campus and Studio ahead of Super Bowl LIV. It features huge production spaces, a flycam rig, an 80 foot boom camera, multiple control rooms and cranes, over 350+ staff, and wireless organization provided by CP Communications.
[…] One of the biggest challenges faced by Fox in South Beach was managing wireless frequency. Cheney noted there wasn’t much frequency in the spectrum to begin with before Fox arrived, and they are utilizing upwards of 40 wireless microphones, 20 wireless IFBs, 24 wireless PLs, and 32 channels of wireless for utility purposes. Plus tie in the fact that ESPN, NFL Network, and a few other media entities are all putting on similar shows in the same area of Miami Beach, all within about a mile of each other.
It all became such a bare that all of the Super Bowl broadcasters actually banded together to hire CP Communications to help frequency manage the entirety of South Beach for everyone.
