PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Clyne Media, Inc.
Tel: (615) 662-1616
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LightViper™ Scores Again For Fox Broadcasting’s
BCS College Championship Football Game
Annapolis Junction, MD — FiberPlex, Inc., the leading
professional audio fiber optic supplier to the broadcast sound production
industry, has announced that their LightViper™ digital audio transport
system was recently deployed for the live Fox Television TV broadcast
at the recent BCS College Football Championship played January 7 in
the New Orleans Superdome. In the Holiday Season’s classic Championship
game, LSU’s Tigers triumphed over Ohio State’s Buckeyes,
38-24, in the 10th Anniversary of the annually televised BCS championship
game. The “plug n’ play” LightViper fiber optic audio
systems were deployed by CP Communications, Inc, an Elmsford, NY-based
production communications equipment and services rental firm that provides
video, audio and fiber communications systems to the broadcast, theatrical,
live event, film, corporate and other entertainment industries.
Kurt Heitmann, CP Communication’s VP of Marketing,
commented on his firm’s use of the LightViper:
“The system transported numerous RF as well as hard-wired mics
to our sub-mix trailer parked underneath the Louisiana Superdome. The
audio run from the game’s sidelines to our mixing truck was about
1,500 feet, a pretty long run. From there, we sent a conventional AES
audio feed a much shorter distance over copper to the Fox-TV production
vehicles for all their on-air mixes. The LightViper was used to transport
all the on-field audio for the pre, post as well as in-game music which
featured the LSU and Ohio State marching bands. The first time CP Communications
used the LIghtViper was last summer at the College World Series in an
ESPN announce booth. The client absolutely loved the way it performed
so we decided to use it again in a much more mission-critical situation.
Heitmann added:
“The system deployed very quickly and the sound quality was excellent.
We were all very impressed with how easy it was to set-up and use, once
again.”
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Photos Attached (2): Suggested captions:
1.(on-field Fox TV set photo)
Fox-TV Broadcast’s live on-field audio at the recent BCS College
Championship Football game in New Orleans, Louisiana was handled by
the LightViper™ system.
2.(in-vehicle shot w/audio engineer photo)
Fox TV’s freelance audio engineer, Mike Abbott, is shown in the
CP Communications audio production truck during the BCS College Championship
Football game. The fiber optic LightViper audio transport run from the
football field sidelines to the mixing console in the remote vehicle
was approximately 1,500 feet.
Editor’s Technical Notes:
Fiberplex manufactures the LightViper fiber optic audio cable transport
systems. The LightViper systems offer total signal path isolation between
both stage and mixer as well as between the mixer and power amplification;
the cable is totally immune to ground loops, RFI, EMI and electromechanical
noise, and runs of up to 1 1/4 miles (6,600 feet) can be easily accomplished
without signal loss or degradation. FiberPlex includes a limited lifetime
warranty with all of its LightViper system components.
Additional information can be obtained at www.fiberplex.com
or www.lightviper.com.
Links:
http://www.cpcomms.com
NOTE: LightViper™ is a registered trademark of FiberPlex, Inc.
Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.
—For more information, contact Ron Neilson, ClyneMedia, Inc.:
Tel: (615) 500-3261;
Email: ron@clynemedia.com; Web: www.clynemedia.com