A few months into the venue’s inaugural season, the COVID-19 pandemic grabbed professional and collegiate sports in a stranglehold in March 2020. “When there’s a home game or an away game, we flip to show the linear-broadcast feed.” The COVID Effect: Productions Adjust to Local, State Guidelinesīefore full crowds returned to venue, Chase Center crew members had to endure an interesting time period. “We have separate servers supporting these exterior displays that play out live weather and traffic information, upcoming shows, and Warriors highlights,” says Heitman. main LED videoboard on the outside of Thrive City, the surrounding district that houses restaurants, bars, and a communal meeting place. Chase Center’s location helps in this department since Oracle Park, where freelancers work for the San Francisco Giants, is right down the street.īesides activations in the lower bowl on game day, the crew is responsible for messaging directed to the 75-ft.

The team also comprises 20 freelance and part-time employees who are familiar with the Warriors’ style of entertainment. Heitman is joined by four full-time employees: Control Room Manager Josh Swain Broadcast Engineer, Scoreboard Operations, Matt Shelley IPTV/LED Systems Manager Khari Jones and Graphics Systems Engineer Bryan Bauer. Now housed in a SMPTE ST 2110-based control room, the production crew is pumping out content for all 41 Warriors home games to the league’s largest centerhung videoboard and other LED screens. Thrive City, the district surrounding Chase Center, is anchored by a 75-ft. From the beginning, he became an integral part of bringing the current technologies to the control room and assembled a star-studded team that would help him. At the time, Chase Center was still a construction site and was seven months from its official September 2019 opening. Heitman joined the Warriors in February 2019. “We learned how to change our control room into a virtual environment.” Game-Day Responsibilities: Lower-Bowl Activations, Exterior Board in Thrive City

“ was an odd experience for us at the beginning, but we learned to make the most of it,” says Scott Heitman, director, scoreboard operations, Golden State Warriors. Since opening in 2019, the building has been transformed in response to new technologies and for the eventual aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Playing in San Francisco’s Chase Center, which is touted as one of the most high-tech arenas in the National Basketball Association, the team is getting an extra jolt from fans and the in-venue entertainment crew.

Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are on the doorstep of another deep postseason run.

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