Venue Initiative Committee Members

The SVG Venue Initiative is charged with serving the information, networking and business needs of engineering, IT and broadcast executives in sports venues — both professional and college. Under the direction of Steve Hellmuth, NBA, EVP, Operations and Technology and SVG Chair, the Group includes the following members:

SVG Venue Initiative Committee Members

Chairman: Rick Price, moeBAM! Venue Media Services, President (headshot)
Josh Beaudoin, Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams (WJHW), Director, Public Assembly and Large Venue Projects
Peter Brickman, IGS, Principal Consultant
Bryan Bray, Baylor University, Director of BaylorVision
Rick Church, Michigan State University, Director of Broadcast Technology
Chip Foley, Forest City Ratner, Director of Building Technologies
Steve Hellmuth, NBA, EVP, Operations and Technology
George Hoover, NEP Broadcasting, CTO
Robert D. Jordan CFE, Van Wagner Sports and Entertainment, Senior Vice President
Don Sperling, New York Giants Entertainment, VP and Executive Producer
Dwin Towell, Dallas Cowboys, Director of Broadcast Engineering Services
Jeff Volk, Alpha Video, Director of Sports & Entertainment Group
Chris Williams, WJHW, Vice President

SVG Venue Initiative Sponsors:
Clear-Com
Crown Castle
Harris Broadcast
Sony

The initial schedule of events includes:

• Venue Technology Committee Meeting: Las Vegas,  April 6  (with Venue Technology Solutions Council)
• NAB Super Session:  SVG has been selected to produce a 1.5 hour conference program on Venue Tech on April 8 (opening day)
• College Venues Session & Tour (Georgia Tech) during the SVG College Sports Summit, May 29, Atlanta
• The SEAT 2013 Conference is August 4th – 7th in Kansas City MO
• Venue Tech Summit:  Featuring tours of Barclay’s and Madison Square Garden in New York (October)
• Venue Technology Committee Meeting, New York, December (with Venue Technology Solutions Council)

 Venue Design White Paper

The Sports Video Group, in association with leading architects, sports networks and leagues, and venue professionals, has created a series of best-practices CAD drawings and documents designed to make it easier for architects and related entities to build controversy-free TV broadcast compounds.

This project, spearheaded by Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director, Bob Jordan, New Meadowlands Stadium, VP, Design and Construction, Chris Williams, WJHW, VP, and Al Fong, ESPN Event Operations, Senior Technical Manager, has resulted the industry’s first open recommendations for facility design and engineering.

Click here to download white paper.