Emmy Awards - production gallery

This was in a Guardian slideshow, source: Reuters.

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Thought others might find it interesting - the awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles (didn't watch them, not sure if Sky etc have any UK rights?) - from what I can gather the TV gallery is actually inside the building (hence the gallery staff being required - I presume - to wear evening dress.) I assume the upper monitors are largely for show and all the the stuff that's of most use is in the 4x4 mosaics.

If anyone knows any more I'd be interested - the theatre website doesn't give much away but I was wondering if there were (m)any stadiums with space set aside permanently for TV teams (other than, of course, the Olympics and Wimbledon - though even at the latter all the vision mixing and editing is still done in trucks.) At any venue where you have several thousand plus people you typically have to have a small vision mixing operation to run a pair of screens from the crowd, after all... what's the situation at The o2, for example?

It is fairly common for the production crew to dress up for big award shows including the Emmy's. For the Oscars, I've read that the Academy springs for tuxedo rentals for the entire crew, camera people out on the floor, everyone.

Last year, the show was produced from a truck and the director of the show won an Emmy for his work on the previous year's Oscars. They had a camera set-up for him and the entire crew were all dressed up.

Speaking of control rooms/gallerys, I do recall that about 3 or 4 years ago, the producers of the Emmy's actually built the control room right on stage of the theatre. I thought it was kind of cool.

Most sporting arenas over here have their own house production crews. This feed usually winds up on the in-house monitors and Jumbotrons. The arenas and stadiums will usually have plug-ins for the outside production truck to plug in to. Sometimes they'll share cameras but usually they don't. Unlike the Oscars, most of those crews working the sporting events are wearing big winter jackets inside the truck. Gotta keep that equipment very cool at all times, even in winter.

With the money they poured into the Nokia Theatre and the whole "L.A. Live" set-up, it doesn't surprise me they would install a control room permanently at the Nokia Theatre. Same owners as the O2 Arena if I'm not mistaken. There's probably gotta be a control room in that building too.

Control Room or Production Control Room (PCR) is what we call 'em on this side of the pond.

I saw a bit of the show on E! last night The control Room was actually built into the set and on show the whole time .