PSSI has had a busy week, and full weekend ahead! We’ve provided a lot of great coverage, and we’re looking forward to what’s to come.
Our Houston-based truck and engineer, John Poss, spent most of the past week in Baton Rouge, covering the devastating Louisiana floods for ABC News. John ended the week on a more upbeat assignment: a CNN interview with some Olympic hopefuls at the gym in Houston where Simone Biles got her start.
A group of our top engineers convened at our Orlando, FL facility for a two day at-home satellite transmission training summit this week, as we prepare for the college football season.
We are en route to Priddis, Alberta, Canada with a flyaway system to provide phones and internet to the entire production compound at the Canadian Women’s Open. This is the second major event at which we’re utilizing Intelsat’s groundbreaking PRISM system.
PSSI will also be providing week-long news coverage for Golf Channel at Priddis Greens with a C-band truck.
Thursday, we covered more preseason NFL football at:
- Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts for the Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots.
- PSSI had two trucks out at Lambeau Field for the Oakland Raiders vs. Green Bay Packers.
- A truck was set up at Heinz Field for the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Pittsburgh Steelers as well as FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, OH for the Atlanta Falcons vs. Cleveland Browns.
- Lastly, we provided regional coverage for the Seattle Seahawks vs. the Minnesota Vikings at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, WA.
Friday:
- PSSI will be providing transmission services, phone lines and data bandwidth via our Exede satellite system in Brooklyn, NY for ESPN’s coverage for Under Armour Basketball’s Elite 24 Showcase.
Saturday:
- We’re in Las Vegas this weekend, stationed at the MGM Grand for UFC 202, Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor 2. PSSI is the transmission provider for the worldwide distribution of the pay-per-view. We have three trucks, four engineers and two project managers onsite.
- We will have CK30 out in Brooklyn, NY at the Barclays Center for the WWE NXT Takeover.
- Our engineering team for NASCAR at Bristol Motor Speedway is gearing up for coverage during Saturday’s race.
- PSSI will be in Jacksonville, FL at the EverBank Field for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Jacksonville Jaguars.
- We will also be out at NRG Stadium in Houston, TX for the Houston Texans vs. the New Orleans Saints.
- PSSI will be covering San Francisco 49ers vs. Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, CO.
Sunday:
- PSSI will be covering the WWE Summerslam pay-per-view at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Looking into Monday, we will remain at Barclays Center for WWE Monday night RAW.