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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Houston rodeo TV: Behind the scenes

David Barron of the Houston Chronicle got a great behind the scenes look at how Rodeo Houston video is done for the Reliant Stadium monitors and a national audience on DirecTV:

While the nightly rodeo and concert performances originate at Reliant Stadium, the production work at the rodeo gets done at the company’s 5,500-square-foot studios at Reliant Center, which is connected to the stadium by a 1,850-foot lifeline of copper and fiber-optic cables buried 10 feet under the Reliant Park parking lots.

The control rooms are tucked behind the wooden doors of the rodeo’s offices on the second floor of Reliant Center, and they include enough gear to equal three of the tractor-trailer-sized production trucks that fans are accustomed to seeing outside stadiums or arenas. READ MORE

If you ever attend Rodeo Houston, you will see that the video of the event is first class. It looks like a TV show. When I took these photos, I had to shoot around a jib crane camera flying around to get the bull riding action. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here