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<\/a>TVU One allowed local stations to transmit live from the field following the Patriots\u2019 stunning victory at Super Bowl LI.<\/p><\/div>\n
Other stations that relied on TVU included WAGA Atlanta; WXIA Atlanta; KHOU Houston; WCSH Portland, ME; and KARE Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cMultimedia journalists from Austin, San Antonio, and Beaumont, TX, were also there,\u201d Bell says, \u201cand we had customers from all station groups represented, including TEGNA Media, NBC, ABC, and Fox affiliates.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Super Bowl is a congested RF environment that requires a lot of signal coordination to ensure that traditional RF-transmission needs are met. The TVU One system avoids that congested spectrum but still faces some challenges as the use of cellular devices among average consumers at major sports events becomes the norm.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, the environment can be congested, but, with our improved software and new TVU One antenna design, our systems performed marvelously and consistently delivered high-quality video,\u201d Bell reports. \u201cAfter the Patriots won the game, our systems went live from the field at NRG Stadium without a hitch. Just as Tom Brady was receiving the Super Bowl trophy and 70,000 fans were sending video live to Facebook, our portable transmitters did their thing. Some [were] reliant on purely cellular, but they all worked great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freed from the constraints of RF-signal coordination, users of bonded-cellular transmission have the freedom to change plans without needing to contact a coordinator or, even worse, being told transmission is impossible.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can run on to the field and go live, and you can walk into a locker room and go live,\u201d says Bell. \u201cFolks from ESPN were walking around the stadium and speaking to fans going into the stadium before the game. You can\u2019t do anything like that in any other way. Journalists can be fast moving and adapt to whatever situation they find themselves in and there are no constraints from the hardware in terms of what you can and can\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Historically, one of the difficulties using a system that relied on bonded cellular has been the massive burden on the cellular-transmission bandwidth as fans fire up their phones. A test transmission that goes perfectly well in an empty stadium the day before the big game can struggle when the stadium is full. But that occurrence is becoming less and less prevalent for TVU One users.<\/p>\n
<\/a>KHOU Houston used TVU One to backhaul signals from the NFL Experience to the station.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cOne fundamental thing about the equipment is that, if you\u2019re experiencing interference or any connection issues with one carrier, our system adapts to it and pushes it on to another route,\u201d says Bell \u201cSo, in crowded places like the Super Bowl, we\u2019re in good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n
And KHOU Houston even used the system to provide backhaul from the Super Bowl Experience at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Every day during Super Bowl Week, the station transmitted live from a studio within the Experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a TVU system plugged into an Ethernet backhaul and used TVU as their transmission pipeline for the duration of their coverage,\u201d says Bell. \u201cTVU One served as their stable transmission path to their home studio, and this is a trend we see a lot of our customers taking advantage of lately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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