LOS ANGELES—Elation Professional helped bring CBS’ broadcast of Super Bowl 50 to light, literally. The lighting product provider supplied its lighting gear to CBS’ three main television sets and its Elation ELAR Q1 color-changing PAR lights for the halftime show.

The sets featured a package of Elations Platinum Spot 15R Pro color and gobo-changing moving heads, Platinum FLX hybrid moving head Design LED Strip RGBAW strip lights, SixBar 1000 LED battens, and 12 ADJ Pinspot LED Quad fixtures.

For the halftime show featuring Coldplay, Bruno Mars and Beyoncé, Elation supplied about 350 ELAR Q1 color-changing PAR lights mounted directly into the stage deck wings. Each ELAR Q1 fixture has a single 18W RGBW LED that can emit a palette of colors, making it possible to adjust to the performers during the day-time performance.

Elation is headquartered in Los Angeles. Super Bowl 50 took place on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, Calif.

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—The Super Bowl continues to be too big to fail, as CBS has announced that its broadcast of Super Bowl 50 averaged 111.9 million viewers on Sunday, Feb. 7, according to Nielsen Fast National ratings. The numbers were good enough to be the third-most-watched program in TV history, but shy of last year’s Super Bowl, which 114.4 million viewers, which remains the most-watched TV program in history.

The broadcast peaked at 115.5 million viewers from 8:30-9 p.m. EST.

One viewership category that did see recording setting numbers was in streaming. The live stream of the game drew 3.96 million unique views across laptops, desktops, tablets, connected TVs and mobile devices.

CBS Sports also announced that Super Bowl 50 did set the record for viewers who watched all-or-part of the broadcast, with 167 million viewers according to Nielsen's Fast Total Audience estimates. The previous record was for Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, which earned 164.1 million viewers.

Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 saw Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos emerge victorious against Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers in a defensive heavy game. The record-setting Super Bowl XLIX saw Tom Brady’s New England Patriots win in dramatic fashion against the Seattle Seahawks.

EL SEGUNDO, CALIF.—It was a historic night on Sunday, with Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos winning Super Bowl 50; but there was also a first for the Super Bowl broadcast. Super Bowl 50 marked the first time that pylon cameras were used. Introduced earlier in the NFL season, the pylon cameras for the championship game were supplied by Admiral Video and featured Marshall Electronics HD POV Miniature Cameras.

CBS, who broadcast the game, had been using the pylon cameras for “Thursday Night Football” all season long. After using four pylon cameras to capture action near the goal line in previous games, the number of plyon cameras was raised to 16 to provide more angles of the entire end zone.

This was just one of the new broadcast techniques used for the big game. Additional tools included CBS’s high-res EyeVision 360 camera system, and virtual first down and end zone lines, which were used to help determine a pair of touchdowns during the game.

Pylon cameras are currently installed on a per game basis, but groups are currently working on a permanent installation system according to Admiral Video.

HACKENSACK, N.J.—There’s more to the Super Bowl than just the game on Sunday, and LiveU has teamed with the Denver Broncos to help bring coverage of Super Bowl Week to the team’s fans. Using LiveU technology, the Broncos will stream up to 40-hours of content to its team website and mobile app.

LiveU helps provide coverage of Super Bowl Week's "Opening Night"

Among the team's offerings to fans will be a twice-daily simulcast of Denver Sports 760 radio broadcast from Media Row at Super Bowl City, featuring pre-game analysis and special guests. Video of each show will be streamed to DenverBroncos.com with LiveU’s LU500 video uplink unit. The website will also produce and live stream a half-hour program of discussion and analysis with the LU700 hybrid video uplink system set up at two fixed locations, the team hotel in Santa Clara, Calif., and at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver.

The LU500 system was also used to record and transmit behind-the-scenes footage of Super Bowl Week’s “Opening Night” to the team’s website on Monday, Feb. 1.

The Broncos have been using LiveU technology since 2013 and are employing 10 LU500 units, two LU700s and the LiveU Central Web-based video management platform for coverage of its trip to Super Bowl 50.

REDMOND, WASH.—Microsoft served up a video vision of the future of football viewing via its virtual reality HoloLens space-age headgear.

“What if game day was no longer confined to your television screen, but covered your room and took over your coffee table? Today, we shared a glimpse of that future in a brand new concept video unveiled at the Super Bowl 50 panel discussion, ‘The Future of Football: How Technology Could Shape the Next 50 Years of the Game, ’” wrote Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Windows and Devices Group this week on the Windows blog.

The glimpse includes a faux living room with reasonably good-looking, HoloLens-bedecked cast members seeming to crush gnats in mid-air between their fingers but are really moving and activating features that do things like make an animated, virtualized field of play show up on the coffee table, or manifest a life-size, computer-generated Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson trying to get through the whole experience with a straight face.

We know this to be a shameless plug for the Microsoft head wrap, but it is undeniably cool. We just wonder how soon it will become obsolete enough for the ordinary among us to afford it.

HACKENSACK, N.J.—Super Bowl 50 is expected to be one of the biggest events in recent memory, and to help cover all the goings on in Santa Clara, Calif., LiveU, the IP-based live video service provider, has announced it will once again provide expanded support in the build up to the big game.

Part of that support will include a dedicated Wi-Fi at Super Bowl City, presented by Verizon at the Moscone Center and the Embarcadero in San Francisco. LiveU will also provide on-site support from LiveU engineers at Super Bowl City, the Embarcadero, and Levi Stadium; this will include on-site maintenance and spare equipment as needed.

Super Bowl 50 will take place on Feb. 7 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. LiveU also provided support during last year’s Super Bowl.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—With Super Bowl 50 in sight, TVU Networks is aiming to offer broadcasters in the San Francisco Bay Area video uplink and distribution services to transmit live during Super Bowl week. With TVU headquarters just 10 minutes from Levi Stadium—where Super Bowl 50 will be played—the company is prepared to provide on-location and on-demand service and support for its IP-based live video transmission systems.

Among the services that TVU plans to offer are its TVUPack mobile IP-based transmitters and accessories; TVU Receivers for video distribution; local cellular 4G and LTE datacards; dedicated microwave mesh networks; technical support and office space with high-speed Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

Super Bowl 50 will take place on Feb. 7 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

MEXICO CITY—The Super Bowl has become a global event, and to make sure that the NFL’s growing Hispanic fanbase has a Spanish-language option for Super Bowl 50, CBS and the NFL have reached an agreement with ESPN Deportes to broadcast the game in Spanish. This is the first Super Bowl telecast for ESPN Deportes.

The network has been presenting weekly “Monday Night Football” games to its viewers throughout the regular season, and will also broadcast Wild Card Playoff games and the Pro Bowl. The network has also featured news and information coverage with “NFL Live” and “NFL Esta Noche.”

Leading up to the big game, ESPN Deportes will present week-long multimedia coverage starting on Feb. 1. There will also be a 90-minute pregame special and a postgame special on Super Bowl Sunday. This will all lead to the broadcast of the game, which will be covered by ESPN Deportes’ “Monday Night Football” commentators Alvaro Martin, former NFL kicker Raul Allegre and sideline reporter John Sutcliffe.

Super Bowl 50 will take place at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 7, 2016 at 6 p.m. ET. CBS will have the main broadcast.

NEW YORK—The countdown to Super Bowl 50 is on and CBS is prepared with a week of coverage and special programming. Beginning Monday, Feb. 1, CBS will offer week-long coverage from San Francisco across multiple platforms, culminating with the broadcast of Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, Feb. 7.

Immediately following the game, CBS will air special live post-game editions of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” the first time late night series will follow the Super Bowl.

In addition, CBS will have shows from nine divisions broadcasting from San Francisco’s Market Street, where Super Bowl City will be located, and Radio Row at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and Santa Clara, Calif. Among the shows broadcasting are “The Super Bowl Today,” CBS’ pre-game show; “CBS News”; CBS Sports Network’s “Super Bowl Live,” “That Other Pregame Show,” “NFL Monday QB” and “We Need to Talk”; Showtime’s “Inside the NFL”; “The Insider”; and “Entertainment Tonight.”

Other special programs will include a broadcast of “NFL Honors” on Saturday, Feb. 6, and a pair of broadcasts on Super Bowl commercials, “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials” on Tuesday, Feb. 2, and “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials All-Star Countdown” on Saturday, Feb. 6.

CBS Sports Digital, CBS Interactive, CBS Radio and CBS Sports Radio will all be in San Francisco with special broadcasts and coverage of their own.

The full programming schedule for all shows will be released at a later date.