AUSTIN, Texas -- June 16, 2015 -- BeckTV, one of the United States' premier design-build systems integrators, today announced that it designed and built two brand-new video control rooms for Mizzou Athletics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. The control rooms support scoreboard video production and live campuswide production of collegiate sports events for broadcast on the universitys athletic conference cable channel and for streaming via the conference's online platform.
"The initial plan for this project was to create a single control room that would support digital production for our conference streaming service, but BeckTV helped us to achieve much more than that," said Stan Silvey, assistant athletic director, broadcast operations, for Mizzou Athletics. "The company has a reputation for building broadcast facilities that meet major network standards, and we feel confident that the two very professional and versatile control rooms we built with BeckTV output a broadcast product that would be difficult to distinguish from coverage on any cable network."
Remodeling existing space within the Mizzou Arena -- home to men's and women's basketball -- to house a primary control room, a secondary control room, an audio control room, and an equipment room, BeckTV provided Mizzou Athletics with facilities capable of providing production for venues across the campus. The company took advantage of newly laid fiber-optic cabling to connect the control rooms to the facilities hosting volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling, baseball, softball, football, track and field, and soccer. With the resulting installation, Mizzou Athletics is able to produce high-quality sports programming and coverage in-house, maintaining creative control while eliminating the need for outside production personnel and associated costs.
Because BeckTV helped Mizzou Athletics to use its budget to build two control rooms rather than the one room originally specified, the broadcast operations department can simultaneously produce multiple live shows or produce a live show while also managing scoreboard video for a home basketball or football game. Only new equipment was used for this project, and the complement of gear includes an Evertz router, multiview processing, and support gear; Panasonic cameras; Ross production switchers and Xpression graphics; Abekas Mira replay units; Click Effects CrossFire; a Yamaha mixer; and AJA support gear.
The infrastructure integrated by BeckTV allowed the production team, a mix of students and professionals, to get up and running quickly in producing sports programming for digital distribution and cable broadcast. In fact, just months after the installation was completed, Mizzou Athletics used its primary control room to produce a volleyball match for broadcast on its conference cable channel.
Today, Mizzou Athletics is equipped to produce high-quality sports coverage showcasing many more of its athletes and teams. In so doing, the department helps to raise the profile of the conference and the university itself. Mizzou sports fans across the world now can access Missouri Tigers games online. The new facilities are tied by fiber to network offices in Bristol, Connecticut, and Charlotte, North Carolina, so live footage from Mizzou Athletics productions is available for air -- typically via "live look-ins" -- at any time.
"The installation at the Mizzou Arena represents the second facility we have completed that meets conference requirements for content production, and the team at Mizzou Athletics is making the most of it -- demonstrating excellent production value worthy of a leading conference network," said Peter Dernbach, project engineer at BeckTV. "We work hard to help our clients realize their vision, and this project has been a great success for us and Mizzou Athletics."
Further information about BeckTV is available at www.becktv.com.
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About BeckTV
BeckTV (formerly Beck Associates) is one of the United States' premier design-build systems integrators. With more than 30 years of experience, BeckTV has designed and built more professional television facilities for more customers than any other systems integrator. In virtually every application from broadcast and cable networks, local TV stations, sports trucks, and stadium venues to educational institutions and houses of worship, BeckTV uses a collaborative approach to assure successful outcomes, on time and on budget. The company maintains full-service offices in Denver, New York, and Austin, Texas. More information about BeckTV is available at www.becktv.com.
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Photo Caption: Video Control Room for Mizzou Athletics at the University of Missouri in Columbia
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Photo Caption: BeckTV's fiber patching system allows Mizzou Athletics operators to connect the control room quickly and easily to any one of the various venues on campus.
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