[BC] Sports headsets

[Alan Kline]

I wonder if there's as much equipment as people might think. The venues, 
IIRC, were all covered by BOB--Bejing Olympic Broadcasting. I may be 
mistaken, but it seems like all the equipment NBC used was in its HQ in 
the International Broadcast Center. Granted, that's probably still quite 
a bit of equipment, but by the time it's divvied up among all the O&O's, 
there may not be much left. Also keep in mind that NBC is likely to 
start shopping for its new facility on the Universal lot fairly soon.

I remember taking a tour of KGO's then-new Front Street facility in San 
Francisco in 1987 or so. We passed a ground-floor room that appeared to 
be filled floor-to-ceiling with boxes, and asked what that was. Our host 
told us that "oh, that's just some gear we got from the network after 
the Olympics. We haven't unpacked it yet." A year-plus after the games...

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Mike McCarthy wrote:
> In years past, NBC has distributed equipment to it's O&O's.  I'm sure 
> this year will be no different since the DTV conversion by many of them 
> are incomplete and they could use the hardware...and in some cases even 
> the wiring.  While you might see some stuff at those places, it's 
> usually the post distribution stuff which no station or equipment broker 
> wants.
> 
> More often than not, it will also be seen in LA given major NBC 
> programming events are done in Burbank.