Broadcast Integration

CNN Field Engineer

All access clearance to the Whitehouse and US Capital. Bush Innauguration.

ESPN

Bristol, Conn. Where the best of the best have come to leave their mark. We worked here with NTC, Systems Group and R Orange integrators just to name a few. Guys here have worked with us at Turner, Discovery Channel, CNN and Time Warner only to name a few. A few of the old cowboys here are listed below.

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Jason Langley, my son, on the right, started out with us at Turner went on to a multitude of projects with KOMO TV, with Pat Rutherford and a number of projects with Direct TV, Turner CNN and others. Jay is a very hard worker who has gone on to lead on big projects.

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We worked with Pat Rutherford first at Turner Studios and a multitude of others. Pat attended Full Sail Institute of Engineering and Production in Florida. He also worked as a studio engineer in Atlanta, Ga. on such projects as Ushers, "You Make Me Wanna", Which went double platinum.

Crude Rude (Randy) Randy like myself comes from a varied background which gives him a can do ability to see a solution to a problem and implement it! He also built his own loghome in the Pennsylvania mountains. A real can do brother!

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Steve Bennett worked with us at Turner, ESPN and a number of other projects. He is a very good all round integrator and supervisor.

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Hundreds of miles of cable go into a project of this size. We ran 240,000 cables just from the 1024 router switchers at the Echo Star satellite station in Gilbert, Az.

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A good integration crew makes up all lables, connectorizes and pulls cable to as close a staging area as possible waiting on final locations and equipment to be given elevations and locations.

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Many times the racks are airwired if we have the location and elevation but not the piece of equipment. When the piece of equipment arrives it is installed and connected with ease.

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Some dedicated racks like DA's are filled as the other racks that feed them are wired. Then dressed properly when they are populated and completed.

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This is a rack of patchbays and full with this unique style of service loop.

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Cables are ran underneath an 18 inch floor or more and up and out of the back of the rack ready to be wired in when the equipment is installed from the front. Sometimes the equipment comes prewired and is rolled up with the piece in boxes or rapped up in the rack.

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Some of these stacks get pretty big. I've seen bigger than this.

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This is a great looking rack and like I said it is an art to get the neatness and waterfall flow of cables with the cable being capable of being traced as it remains in the same line with no sinkers.

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This is the backplane of a router. It runs through patchbays and to every piece of equipment in the building and is selected from a router panel.

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Welcome to the jungle.

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Tools of the trade. I took on the move and relocation of a small info-mercial station in Atlantic, City to it's new location in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey

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Rack and cabinet assembly in Engineering.

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Master Control racks

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Studio Control rack assembly.

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Master Control console assembly.

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Master Control.

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Back of Master Control.

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Tool set up for quick access.

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Tear down of old set to be refurbished and moved from AC to Little

Egg Harbor.

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Build out of New Studio.

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Build out of new studio.

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Background mural.

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Assembly of false windows.

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Final adjustments.

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Brand new studio.

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Equipment shelves in Engineering.

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Studio Control.

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Studio Control.

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Back of Studio Control.

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Waveform Monitor.

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Starnets Up-link Dish in WestChester.

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6 Meter uplink dish.

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Disassembly of dish farm.

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Starnet dishfarm.

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Multi-recievers on one LNB.

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3 Meter dishes come in 3 parts.

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Using rope and pulley tied to a tree to maneuver dishes. There was no power to the dishfarm. The building and property had been sold to an online highschool.

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Using rope and pulley tied to a tree to maneuver the dish.

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Disassembling the mount.

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Removing the side third of the dish.

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Using a parking sign to release the panel.

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Panel releases and falls like a guillotine.

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Side panel down.

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Bringing the panel to the stack.

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Repeat the process five more times to get all dishes on film I set the camera on a tripod. I moved the camera to capture each one as I moved. Was a lot of fun but very cold.

The World Congress Center

This is The World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga. It is a half mile long convention center. I installed the audio, intercom and fire enunciation system with Baker Audio. It has a multitude of meeting rooms, concert halls and an enormous convention hall area.

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This is one of the concert hall areas. Huge with a stage up front!

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One of the pre build groups of equipment staged, wired and ready to be moved to the conventiojn center.

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Racks of amplifiers covered for painting, installed at the convention center.

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Speakers mounted in the ceiling of one of the concert halls.