NHL Draft

Packed venues, multiple locations and multiple day events are nothing new to LIVE! Technologies. As a full-service audio, visual and lighting company, the hosts of the 2007 NHL Draft counted on LIVE! to handle their extensive technical requirements or complex logistical challenges.

Nationwide Arena became the focus of hockey fans everywhere as The Columbus Blue Jackets hosted the 2007 NHL Draft with over 3000 visitors. NHL executives, scouts, and coaches gathered on the arena floor as spectators swarmed the arena bowl for the historic event of global exposure.

LIVE! Technologies, working in concert with BaAm, the Blue Jackets, and the NHL provided an ambitious production package for the weekend to include audio, lighting, and rigging on the main floor, as well as ancillary packages to highlight the Stanley Cup, and augment the Top Prospects Luncheon and the post-draft press conference. As well as, the pre-draft party on the Plaza of Nationwide Arena boasted LIVE!’s SL250 Mobile Stagevan, and the audio and lighting for the national recording artist, Yellowcard.

Even more intricate than the technical requirements for the event were the complex logistical opportunities. In addition to fine-tuning a labor schedule to meet the needs of the multi-faceted production, LIVE! also supplied the power distribution to the main floor, the supplementary events in the concourse, and to the mobile production truck provided by TSN Broadcasting from Toronto.

The broadcast itself incurred a historic notation, as 2007 marked the first year that television viewers received the opportunity to watch the first round of the draft live on Friday night.

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