Menu
Delta Air Lines wanted to make a grand presentation. The airline wanted to notify the public that there was a new Delta and that this new airline was emerging from bankruptcy. BlaCon Media was contacted to assist with this world wide announcement. Delta explained that they wanted to provide content to 12 of their domestic locations and two international locations that included Santiago, Chile and London, England.
BlaCon Media worked to secure crews, satellite trucks, satellite space and viewing stations in each location. BlaCon had to work with each airport’s security team, the FAA and other officials for access. There were several first during this event. It was the first time a satellite truck had actually rolled across the tarmac at New York’s LaGuardia. It was the first time that the reservation monitors in Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport had been commandeered to show a live broadcast.
We worked with a production company to convert an airplane hangar into a production facility that would serve as broadcast center and at the same time house 4000 excited employees. It was also necessary to roll in a tractor trailer size production truck and two satellite trucks.
This successful event allowed us to demonstrate our operations, coordination, production, engineering, pre-production, post production, management and administrative skills. This successful production lead to us being the broadcast engineering firm of note for Delta Air lines for several years. We went on to produce town hall meetings, the CEO change announcement, Delta’s relisting on the New York stock exchange and numerous other events.
During the Fall NCAA College championships NCAA and CBS wanted a way to highlight each one of these events around the country. They felt it was not efficient to broadcast all the events. They wanted a broadband solution. The question was how could they produce numerous events around the country, break games down into clips and disseminate the content in a timely manner so that fans could get a feeling for the excitement of recent events?
BlaCon Media was ask to come up with a solution that would produce multiple events over multiple days. We went to work with our web master and IT support and developed a system that would utilize 1 or 2 camera people and compression so that content could be Ftp’d to the CBS site. It was necessary to make sure that the camera people were also editors. Consequently we were able to produce 73 events in 57 days. We covered Football, Volleyball, Track and Field and Soccer that appeared on CBS All Access.
In April of 2012 the Thelonious Monk Institute and International Jazz Day featured Herbie Hancock during the 50th anniversary of his song “WATERMELON MAN”. This historic concert took place in Congo Square in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Because of the history of this event Mr. Hancock, always known as an innovator wanted to push the technical boundaries further. What if Mr. Hancock would start his song in New Orleans and at the same time hand-picked musicians around the world would start his song in real time? Bands were chosen in Paris, France, Cape Town, South Africa and Rio Dejaneiro, Brazil.
Satellites and band start times had to be coordinated and synced so that a groups solo would coincide with the music being produced in New Orleans. Consequently, all bands had to start at the same time and hit their final note at the same time all in the same key.
BlaCon Media had absolute production and technical success. The company was backed by a team of over 50 technicians and engineers worldwide. Several production and audio trucks were used. Multiple satellites and teleports were utilized worldwide. To our knowledge this type of international coordination had only been attempted once before. Please enjoy the short video about this technical feat.
