General Information
| Project Cost: $8 million |
| Size of Space: 7,850-square feet |
| TV Monitors: 82 |
| Wires: 2,560 (38.6 miles) |
| Strands of Fiber: 576 (Connected to all UofL venues) |
| Cameras: 28 total: 10 primary, including four with 80x lenses; 9 robotic; 3 POV; 6 with mobile production trailer |
Facility Visuals
| Photo Gallery |
| Video Tour |
The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN have partnered to launch the comprehensive linear and digital ACC Network in 2019. With the network launch approaching, the University of Louisville built a television production facility on the northeast corner of its campus to house all the equipment and personnel that is necessary to originate live programming.
Until the linear network launch, live programming will continue to be produced by UofL for ESPN networks or ACC Network Extra, a digital television platform.
The 7,850 square foot production facility was completed in September 2018 and is connected by fiber to UofL athletic venues and to ESPN. Instead of mobile trucks covering sporting events, live programming will be originated from the new centralized production facility.
The $8-million project included construction, equipment and integration, and fiber connection to UofL venues. The broadcast center includes two full video control rooms for linear telecasts which will air on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or the ACC Network. Those two control rooms and three additional scaled back control rooms allow for live telecasts of multiple events that may either overlap, or are concurrently played, to air on multiple television platforms.
With fiber connections to each venue, the broadcast center will also produce live, in-game content for UofL venue video boards such as those in Cardinal Stadium, Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium, KFC Yum! Center, Jim Patterson Stadium and Ulmer Stadium. The UofL Athletics Broadcast Center is connected by fiber to ESPN.
The production facility includes a bureau studio, which would allow coaches and players to do live interviews on any ESPN platform and/or broadcast channels. Also included in the center is a versatile studio with variable sets and a full green screen wall and personnel work space. The Cardinals also maintain a television production mobile unit for venues that are not connected by fiber to the broadcast center.
The center will be used for creation of not only ACC Network content, but for other video projects in support of the athletics department as well.
