Syracuse University, New York.

      It's Superbowl weekend, and the ESPN College Game Day show comes to Syracuse. High Def coverage of the game is handled by Dome Productions (Toronto) and uplinked by Videocom. The Game Day show is handled by All Mobile Video, in standard definition, shot to Bristol via the Moonlink truck. Syracuse often has regional TV coverage, with a single mobile truck and Ku uplink. Today's production has the media deck full and then some. Two production trucks, each with B units, (AMV's B unit is an expando) plus 2 C band uplink trucks...the office trailer and generators were parked on the lower level. You might think this was a superbowl setup (ok, maybe you wouldn't). Not seen is a TVRO Net Return Cband dish for ESPN commentators to watch. (It's inbetween the uplink units.) Counting DirecTV dishes, a total of six dishes are deployed with the various trucks.

This represents roughly 330,000 pounds of televised love. And it all pulls out after the game!

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