5280 Broadcast

DirecTV, Castle Rock, CO - 5280 Broadcast completed several integration projects in 2009 for DirecTV's Castle Rock Broadcast Center including a multi-month contract for on-site engineering and installation support. Projects included the installation of copper and fiber optic infrastructure within a mission-critical environment. The CRBC provides 24/7 content handling, including programming collection, encoding and transmission for DirecTV's 18 million subscribers.

KSNW/KSNT/KTMJ - Wichita and Topeka, KS - 5280 Broadcast recently completed a number of projects for stations within the Kansas State Network, owned by New Vision Television. In 2007, KSNW in Wichita called upon 5280 Broadcast to upgrade their playback server system. 5280 provided and installed a Harris Nexio platform which now handles the station's standard definition and high definition record and playback functions. In 2008, KSN again turned to 5280 Broadcast to integrate the operations of newly acquired KTMJ, Topeka's Fox affiliate, into the technical plant at KSNT. 5280 added a Harris Platinum routing core and Icon Master master control switching and branding systems. Most recently, 5280 Broadcast provided assistance to KSNW in its creation of Kansas Now, a 24 hour News and Weather Channel carried throughout the State of Kansas. The channel, launched in January of 2009, is a collaborative effort between KSN and Cox Communications.

KMGH - Denver, CO - 5280 Broadcast recently completed The Denver Channel's new production control center. The project included the design and construction of a completely new control room workspace which has transitioned the KMGH news production team into the HD era. Services provided by 5280 Broadcast included architectural consultation regarding the placement of walls, power, monitoring equipment, and furnishings, wiring of the new Ignite HD production control system, the addition of all new monitoring, patching, KVM, processing, and backup systems and the design and installation of custom operator consoles and millwork. Equipment provided by 5280 Broadcast included custom millwork by Graham Studios, signal processing equipment from Harris, Cobalt Digital, and AJA Video, Harris/Zandar multiviewers, Sharp flat panel displays, a Yamaha digital audio console, and a KVM routing system by Avocent. Randy Reed took on the lead design and project management roles for this project. The system was put on the air in August of 2008.

KNBN - Rapid City, SD - Rapid Broadcasting selected 5280 Broadcast to supply equipment, engineering, and integration services for its transition to digital broadcasting. 5280 Broadcast recently installed a new routing core, upconversion, monitoring, encoding, and fiber optic equipment. The addition of a Harris NetVX encoding and statistical multiplexing platform has enabled Rapid Broadcasting to not only convert their main NBC feed to high definition digital, but to convert their current low power analog CW and MyTV channels into digital subchannels as well. The system was completed in November, 2008.

ABC News/Democratic National Convention - Denver, CO - 5280 Broadcast provided a team of technicians and engineers to ABC News and NewsOne prior to and during the Democratic National Convention at Denver's Pepsi Center and Invesco Field in August of 2008. 5280 Broadcast was responsible for installing, terminating, and testing over 90,000 feet of copper and fiber optic cable connecting various camera positions, monitoring locations, and control points within the venues and the production trucks.

WFRV - Green Bay, WI - 5280 Broadcast was chosen by WFRV, the CBS affiliate in Green Bay, WI to supply and integrate their new play-to-air servers, on-air graphics systems, HD router, and associated video and audio processing equipment. WFRV has chosen Harris Nexio servers, Harris Icon Station branding and master control graphics systems, and a Harris Panacea router for this exciting station expansion which went on line in late August, 2008.

Lake Cedar Group, Golden, CO
Work has recently been completed at the Lake Cedar Group site on Lookout Mountain. 5280 Broadcast crews assisted with control room design, installed cable and fiber, wired equipment racks, and installed audio, video, data, and communication connection points from custom panels on the exterior of the building into each LCG member station's control and monitoring area, all of which helped to move Denver broadcasting into the digital era. All member stations began transmitting from the facility in May and preparations continue for the final analog to digital transition in February of 2009.

White Diamond Productions, Harrison, AR
5280 Broadcast has completed White Diamond Productions' latest expansion. 5280 designed and installed White Diamond's new multi-definition studio and control room which includes a Ross Vision 2MD production switcher, a Pro-Bel router expansion, Harris signal monitoring equipment, and custom-built consoles from Graham Studios. White Diamond Productions is now the proud home of Northern Arkansas' only full featured high definition production studio.

Gaiam, Inc., Louisville, CO
Gaiam/Conscious Media recently commissioned 5280 Broadcast for the re-design and re-location of their post production facility into their newly acquired environmentally friendly corporate headquarters in Louisville, CO. 5280 Broadcast was responsible for the integration of ten racks of legacy tape and editing equipment with a new multi-level routing system serving outlying editing, graphics, and encoding stations. 5280 was also faced with the logistical challenges involved with relocating an active facility while keeping downtime to an absolute minimum. Work on this impressive new facility was completed in June of 2008.

Charter Media - 5280 Broadcast was chosen to provide hardware, design, and integration services for the post-production and VOD encoding suites at Charter Media in Greenwood Village, CO. The project was successfully completed in late 2007.

Mountain West Sports Network - 5280 Broadcast has completed the installation of an all new digital workflow solution for the Mountain West Sports Network. This project replaced the legacy tape-based feed acquisition and production playback operations with a server-based ingest, edit-in-place, and playback system. Additional signal ties between the newsroom and production studios were also installed, creating additional flexibility and future expansion potential.

WFRV - Green Bay, WI - 5280 Broadcast recently completed the installation and integration of a Sundance Digital automation system at WFRV - TV5 in Green Bay. The installation was managed by Randy Reed in Green Bay with cable fabrication being completed by the 5280 staff in Denver.

Sparrowhawk Broadcast Services - 5280 Broadcast was selected by Sparrowhawk Broadcast to provide installation and wiring services for their new 16-channel master control suite located south of Denver. The system was cabled to Sparrowhawk's rigid wiring standards and the project was completed as a collaborative effort between 5280's and Sparrowhawk's engineering departments.

Orion Multimedia - Orion Multimedia contracted 5280 Broadcast to provide equipment, engineering, and installation for their new HD offline suite and closed-captioning system. These new systems will enable Orion to ingest multiple SD and HD tape formats into their Final Cut editing infrastructure, perform dubs and quality control operations in an efficient manner, and caption both SD and HD material in house.

Comcast Media Center - An exciting collaborative effort between 5280 Broadcast and the Comcast Media Center engineering team has recently come to a close. 5280 Broadcast was selected to provide equipment, engineering services, and installation labor for the construction of a state of the art high definition production studio and control room at the CMC in Littleton, CO. The project consisted of the relocation of an existing standard definition studio, pre-wiring for the HD infrastructure, and construction of the new control room.

KCOS - El Paso, TX. In July, 2006, 5280 Broadcast assisted the West Texas PBS station in its move to a new facility. 5280's Director of Engineering designed the KCOS master and production control systems in 2004 with the knowledge that the facility would be moving to a new home in the near future. In 2006, the modular design put in place two years earlier proved to be successful, as the system was de-commissioned, moved, re-cabled, and put back in service in less than three days. 5280 Broadcast provided logistical assistance, re-cabling, and system testing services during this critical phase.