studios

The newest addition to NBC Sports’ Stamford, Conn., broadcast facility is a sprawling set in Studio 3 that uses unique interplays between scale and perspective to create a versatile space for any coverage. NBC began using the redesigned 5,400-square-foot space in this summer for Premier League European football coverage.

The expansive, newly designed facility is home to NBC Bay Area’s signature news shows Today in the Bay and NBC Bay Area News.

Peter Chernin has launched The North Road Company, a global content studio that will bring together Chernin Entertainment, the U.S. assets of Red Arrow Studios, which includes Love Is Blind producer Kinetic Content, and Connor Schell’s non-scripted business Words + Pictures. The move comes as the former Fox chief paid $180 million for Red Arrow’s U.S. companies including Kinetic Content; The Circus producer Left/Right; 44 Blue Productions, the company behind Netflix’s Life After Death with Tyler Henry; Say Yes To The Dress producer Half Yard and Building Alaska producer Dorsey Pictures.

COVID-19’s social distancing requirements won’t have a lasting impact on studio design and trends like video walls are expanding, vendors say. But remote production has compelled them to offer simple-to-use at-home kits until COVD abates. Above, Devlin Design Group recently delivered the set for the new studio at the Tennis Channel. The set uses LED displays surrounding the studio. The Tennis Channel can use the same set for different programs since the LEDs can display “graphic wallpaper” that can be customized.

Amid the backdrop of the pandemic and the ongoing, years-long digestion of several mega-mergers, from Disney-Fox to ViacomCBS to AT&T’s WarnerMedia, pretty much every legacy entertainment house in town is in the process of maneuvering a massive ship-turning effort to better point their armadas in the direction of streaming. And perhaps being the head of a broadcast network isn’t what it used to be, as younger viewers increasingly regard linear TV as an anachronism.

KHOU has been in a temporary studio since the station lost its building to Hurricane Harvey. But the Tegna station in Houston is making strides towards settling into a permanent new home. On Friday, the station debuted its new Avenida studio in downtown Houston.