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We all know that scheduling and logistics in the uplinking
business can be a challenge, to say the least. Okay, here is one
week's lineup...
We started our week Saturday night at
New York's Madison Square Garden for HBO in HD.
The event was a 12 round WBA Heavyweight title fight between
James Toney and John
Ruiz. Toney won in a lopsided decision, and became only the
third fighter to win titles at both the middleweight and
heavyweight divisions. Our next event
was the New York Mets vs the Philadelphia Phillies in HD at Shea
Stadium Monday night for ESPN. As the Moonlink truck
pulled into Queens, TNT booked us for Tuesday night in
Auburn Hills, Michigan in addition to a previous booking in
Chicago for Wednesday night. That gave us less than 24 hours
between events, so we flew a second operator / driver, Bob Rea,
into LaGuardia. It took all night to get to Auburn Hills in time
to park and power for the Detroit Pistons vs the Philadelphia
76'ers playoff game in HD. It turned out that
the Pistons eliminated Philadelphia on Tuesday night in Game #5
of their first-round series. What a great game! But there was no
time to lose. The Chicago Bulls playoff game #5 was less than a
day away. Another midnight run got us to Chicago's United
Center in time to broadcast the Bulls loss to the Washington
Wizards in what was to be the second from last game of their
amazing season. But wait, there's more! Just as we finished
faxing out our HD setup for that evening, TNT scheduled
our truck for  Thursday
night's Indiana Pacers vs Boston Celtics game #6 matchup at
the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. We barely had time to
stow the dish in Chicago before we had to head out into the night
for Indianapolis. Our last nocturnal drive took us back to
Michigan for Friday morning and evening broadcasts for ESPN
SportsCenter and ESPNews with Larry Brown, coach of the
Detroit Pistons, and a one on one with Rip Hamilton.
As
usual, every broadcast went off without a hitch, but WOW! what a
week!
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