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from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show on TV<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time\u2019s most popular entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Jody Rosen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of NBC\u2019s\u2019 production trucks outside Arrowhead Stadium. Credit: Brian Finke \/ New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.\u2019s defending champions, is a very loud place. Players say that when the noise reaches top volume, they can feel vibrations in their bones. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet\u2019s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for \u201cLoudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.\u201d Chiefs fans know how to weaponize noise, quieting to a churchlike hush when the team\u2019s great quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, calls signals but then, when opponents have the ball, unleashing a howl that can even drown out the sound of the play call crackling through the speaker inside the rival quarterback\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are others whose work is complicated by the din. Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, Brian Melillo, an audio engineer for NBC Sports\u2019 flagship N.F.L. telecast, \u201cSunday Night Football,\u201d arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening\u2019s Chiefs-Detroit Lions game.<\/a> It was a big occasion: the annual season opener, the N.F.L. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by the winner of last season\u2019s Super Bowl. There would be speeches, fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship banner. A crowd of more than 73,000 was expected. \u201cArrowhead is a pretty rowdy setting,\u201d Melillo said. \u201cIt can present some problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melillo was especially concerned about his crowd mics \u2014 three stereo microphones intended to catch the ambient\u00a0oohs<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0aahs<\/em>\u00a0of fans, mounted atop 16-foot-high painters\u2019 poles that he and a colleague had secured to the railing separating the seats from the field. These needed to be kept at a distance from exploding pyrotechnics and angled away from the blare of the stadium\u2019s public-address system. A perhaps greater hazard was overzealous fans, who are prone to shaking the poles or even pulling them down. \u201cYou\u2019ll get people who\u2019ve been tailgating for five hours,\u201d Melillo said. \u201cI might have to bribe some people to stay off those poles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show on TV Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time\u2019s most popular entertainment. By\u00a0Jody Rosen Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.\u2019s defending champions, is a very loud place. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}