AVI-SPL's Yankee Stadium Project with Telecast Featured in Sound & Communications Magazine
Posted by Rich Cerny
In AVI-SPL's corporate blog, Jim Stokes, author of Pride of the 
Yankees, mentions the $5.7 million dollar contract for the Bronx Bomber AV project. Download Jim's complete article from Sound & Communications Magazine to see how Telecast is central to the new stadium's HD-broadcast fiber optic video and audio production.
Excerpt: "...transporting HDTV (SDI) signals over the significant distances of a sporting venue required implementation of fiberoptic transport systems
to maintain full signal integrity. Telecast Systems (Worcester MA) products provided much of the fiber transport (audio and video) used to achieve the many requirements associated with transporting video and audio signals to and from the broadcasters.
Audio and video are evident throughout the fan areas.
Benefits Of Fiber
Looking at the fundamental attributes of fiber, McConnell said, “It starts to become difficult to push video around on such long cable runs of 1200, 1500, 1800 feet to maintain HD integrity. It’s really better to transport it over fiber and keep that signal kind of pristine and revert it back to copper for somebody to use at the opposite end.”
Here’s more in-depth information regarding spfx. According to McConnell, each in-Stadium radio booth, along with the television production truck parking areas, is provided with house feeds and effects, including crowd and the aforementioned field effects and crowd noise: up to 48 various discrete feeds over a single fiber, through implementation of the Telecast Systems Fiber Transport.
In addition, the broadcaster is served analog audio in the familiar analog XLR configuration. Input into the Telecast system itself is achieved with A/D converters located throughout the Stadium near the sources, which include dugouts for effects and the PA booth for house feeds, among other source areas. The system provides the benefit of a robust distribution system for effects without the need for analog distribution amplifiers and the lengthy multiple cable counts to all locations.
Summing up, McConnell noted, “The successful outcome of a project is truly the culmination of many things visible, such as the excellent craftsmanship of those performing the work, and invisible, like those who design, engineer and plan the work well away from the jobsite itself. Although hundreds of personnel were involved over several years, it yielded to a single day when the networks arrived and interconnected their equipment for a broadcast, and the word is spread: ‘The cameras have fired and we have audio.’ Speakers are mounted behind the frieze. Play ball!”