MONTREAL—Game Creek Video, one of North America’s largest mobile production providers, has reached an agreement with Grass Valley to purchase 10 fully configured K-Frame production switchers as part of a two-year fleet expansion program.

Two K-Frame systems have already been delivered, with the remaining eight scheduled over the next two years.

Game Creek serves major professional sports leagues and premium live event productions across the United States. , and the agreement continues a long-standing relationship between the two companies.

“We have always invested in technology that gives our clients the flexibility and performance they need for the most demanding productions,” said Pat Sullivan, president and founder, Game Creek Video, which produces major professional sports leagues and premium live event productions across the United States. “The K-Frame platform and its fully IP-native configuration reflects our commitment to serve our demanding customers by building customers by building a fleet of trucks ready for modern live production workflows.”

Each K-Frame system will be deployed with a Kayenne 4ME control surface and configured identically, featuring nine MEs and a fully loaded 192×96 IP-architecture. The common specification provides Game Creek with a consistent operational framework across its fleet to support high-end sports and entertainment productions.

“The combination of scale, reliability and IP capabilities made K-Frame the right fit for our next generation of trucks,” said Jason Taubman, senior vice president of technology, Game Creek Video. “Standardizing on a common architecture gives our engineering and production teams the same unique capabilities, regardless of which truck is on-site.”

Grass Valley will showcase its latest live production solutions, including the K-Frame production switcher family, at Booth 219 at the 44th Annual IDEA Conference, taking place 12–15 July at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—Game Creek Video has integrated the TSL Products MPA1-MIX-DANTE audio monitoring solution into its GCV Anywhere remote OB truck interface, TSL announced today.

“TSL audio monitors are reliable and sound great. TSL offers both analog and digital connectivity options,” said James Piccirillo, broadcast network systems manager at Game Creek Video. “We love how we can monitor up to 128 audio channels if necessary, and it’s easy to use and interface with. All of the sources can be customized, making it a flexible and intuitive solution for anyone using it.”

The GCV Anywhere remote kits, developed during the height of the pandemic, allow production teams to produce and control live broadcasts while off-site to promote the safety of production teams.

The TSL Products MPA1-MIX-DANTE is designed for outside broadcast or headend use where fast audio QC of multiple sources is required. With the unit, custom mixes can be created on the fly using independent source gain encoders from any combination of the 64 Dante/AES67 and 64 MADI sources available, the company said.

The monitor includes a source label and a monitor mix label display so operators can access and monitor audio sources as well as accurate peak metering, it said.

All of the user features of the TSL MPA1-MIX-DANTE are accessible via a web UI with a built-in web server designed to enable remote configuration and monitoring of networked units, making it a versatile solution for any remote setup, the company said.

The monitoring solution offers an easily accessible front panel display, which includes pan/balance information and efficient audio monitoring of up to eight unique audio sources. Source labels can be automatically read from the Dante network or manually entered using the web UI. 

The MPA1-MIX-DANTE includes a high-quality internal full range loudspeaker system, a 1RU lightweight case that is 100mm deep and SNMP support, it said.

More information is available on the TSL Products website.  

CRANBURY, N.J.—Football is a team sport and so is covering it. One example of that is Game Creek utilizing IHSE KVM gear in six of its outside broadcast (OB) trucks that covered Super Bowl LI in Houston.

Game Creek’s Encore A, B and C units used for the game broadcast and utilized IHSE’s Draco tera platform. A Draco tera enterprise matrix switch was in the A unit and connected to Draco tera compact switches in both the B and C units using an IHSE matrix grid, tying all the trucks together as a single cascaded, 320-port system. This allowed operators in the trucks to connect to both EVS network and graphic engines in any of the trucks.

IHSE provided a similar setup in Game Creek’s PeacockOne A and B units. The PeacockOne A housed a 160-port Draco tera enterprise matrix switch as the primary KVM, with a Draco tera compact hybrid 32-fiber/48-copper matrix in PeacockOne B. The two KVM matrix systems were united via IHSE’s grid manager, enabling connections to available servers by connecting the workstation to a specific server.

The Draco tera system was also used in Game Creek’s Chesapeake and Nitro OB trucks for coverage of other events during Super Bowl festivities.