It looks to be a busy holiday weekend for PSSI Global Services. Happy Independence Day to all our friends and customers, and especially to the PSSI Global Services engineers and project managers working hard on the holiday.
Our truck fabrication and integration team down in Orlando, Florida, have been hard at work preparing a new dual-antenna truck for what will surely be an action-packed football season. Here’s a sneak peek at the CK48, which we expect to be on the road by the end of the month. Great work down there!
On Sunday night in Orlando, we’ll have two trucks at Universal Orlando for Impact Wrestling’s Slammiversary 15 pay-per-view. Rick Ball and Marty Smitherman are getting all set for what will surely be a an exciting night of wrestling.
Live from Indio, California, Friday night is Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN. LA-based engineer Chris Hovden is becoming a regular at Fantasy Springs Casino, where he will be transmitting a three-channel mux back to ESPN headquarters for distribution across North America.
Just a mile or two down the road (and across the ocean) in Brisbane, Australia, senior project manager David Gallardo is working with local vendors to provide the worldwide transmission of the Pacquiao vs. Horn fight, live from Suncorp Stadium. It’ll be Saturday night in the States when viewers tune into the fight, but it’ll be Sunday afternoon for David and his crew.
Much, much closer to home, our LA engineers are hard at work preparing for the 40th annual Pacific Palisades 5K and 10K run on July 4. We provide production, transmission and data services, and we also feed a big screen at the finish line in the heart of the Palisades. Every year, PSSI Global Services donates its equipment and expertise, and our partners at Intelsat donate satellite space for this great event. Proceeds from the race go to Optimist Club youth charities.
Dave Buckman will be in our nation’s capitol next week for another installment of the Capitol Concerts series. Live on Independence Day, A Capitol Fourth features performances by the Beach Boys, Trace Adkins and the U.S. Army Band. Thanks again to Dave for being in Washington, D.C. to provide transmission services on a holiday!
It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Mati Kerpen will be at Coney Island with his Junior truck to provide a two-channel mux for viewers throughout the United States. Will Joey Chestnut defend his title? Tune in on Tuesday for all the action!
No holiday break for golf coverage. Mike Howley rounds out a great week at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Maryland. From there, Blake Blomstrom hustles the truck to The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, where he will be providing Golf Channel with extensive news coverage for the week.
Craig Henry’s near Chicago at the Olympia Fields Country Club, where he’s finishing up a solid week of transmissions for the Women’s Championship. Craig takes C43 into a repair shop for some TLC before it continues on to Nemacolin Woodlands Resort outside Pittsburgh next week.
We also have plenty of racing on the schedule this weekend. Our team has been at Daytona International Speedway all week getting ready for the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday. From there the C27 trucks on to the Kentucky Speedway for next week’s action.
Todd Harvey will be on hand for yet another installment of the IMSA series at Watkins Glen International. That’s a 12-channel multiplexed transmission for NASCAR, which Mr. Harvey will repeat the following week in Bowmanville, Ontario, at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
It may be a busy Fourth of July weekend, but we can’t think of a better way to celebrate our freedom than by doing what we love!