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The Sunday Read: ‘How an Ordinary Football Game Turns Into the Most Spectacular Thing on TV’

The Sunday Read: ‘How an Ordinary Football Game Turns Into the Most Spectacular Thing on TV’

The Daily vor 2 Jahren

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Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the
N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014
game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a
jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest
crowd roar at a sports stadium.”

Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, Brian Melillo, an audio
engineer for NBC Sports’ flagship N.F.L. telecast, “Sunday Night
Football,” arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening’s
game against the Detroit Lions. It was a big occasion: the annual
season opener, the N.F.L. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by
the winner of last season’s Super Bowl. There would be speeches,
fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship
banner. A crowd of more than 73,000 was expected. “Arrowhead is a
pretty rowdy setting,” Melillo said. “It can present some
problems.”

Broadcasting a football game on live television is one of the
most complex technical and logistical challenges in
entertainment. Jody Rosen went behind the scenes of the mammoth
broadcast production.

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