Monday will be the second time Fenway Park welcomes the NHL's most iconic regular-season contest. FlutoShinzawa details how TNT is prepping for the Winter Classic — and how they are competing with ESPN for NHL broadcasting superiority.
or if the Bruins can extend their 18-0-3 home dominance outdoors. The network is deploying 300 technicians, 64 cameras and 50 microphones to tell the story of baseball’s design diamond, in both senses of the word.
This is by design. The rink will be parallel to the Green Monster. The Wall will be the backdrop to both the rink and a diamond-shaped auxiliary sheet. “It’ll give you a POV perspective, a fan’s perspective, if you had a seat on top of the Green Monster,” Hemming said. “Then it will swoop down over the aux ice and take me to the rink. When we first surveyed this, I was like, ‘We have to have this. It’s the must-have.’”
On Dec. 27, SS8 and its seven companions pulled into a parking lot behind Guitar Center on the corner of Ipswich and Van Ness Streets. The compound is TNT’s nerve center. Estroff pegged the eight-truck convoy to be worth over $50 million.Technicians arrived from around the country — a big contingent from Atlanta, TNT’s home base, others from Los Angeles, and even one from snowbound western New York.
At the same time, in a room down the game truck to their left, lead audio engineer Randy Pekich will be keeping his ears on everything, from what the 50 microphones placed around Fenway capture to the chatter between the trucks.