MLB Network

Don’t miss the recent BE article:  “MLB Network facility conquers enormous wave of HD content”.  Use the following link to read the article; learn more about Tab Butler’s keynote speech June 22 at Broadcast Engineering’s IT/Digital Workflow Boot Camp in New York City; or download Butler’s discussion “IT infrastructure, file-based workflow produce success at MLB Network facility.”  BE MLB article and links

Major League Baseball retained TSG to design and build their new home in Secaucus, NJ to accommodate studio productions, game feed acquisition, all post-production operations, and master control release for DirecTV and MSOs nationwide in the largest cable channel launch in history.

The facility is an HDSDI operation with (2) Production Studios with projection, LED wall, and large format display technology driven by 20-channels of media player I/O, (2) Production/Audio Control Room Suites, (40) Nonlinear Edit Rooms, (2) Audio Post Rooms, (1) 20-workstation graphics area, (1) 2-channel Master Control Room, (1) 115-channel Transmission Center, (1) 6-workstation Media Operations Center including tape operations and media management for over (90) record and (30) playback channels of media server (EVS, TGV, and Apple), a 180-rack equipment room, and a robotic archive.

The facility supports all MLB Network operations, post-production services for MLB Productions (league and individual team support), and monitoring and control for the BallparkCam system that links all thirty MLB ballparks around country to the NOC via redundant ATM backbone, allowing multiple cameras at each ballpark to be controlled and recorded remotely from the NOC. The facility demonstrates file-based workflows for all daily operations, and leverages those files for online service MLB.com.