Agency Contact: BeckTV Contact: Elisabetta Fernandez Kelly Bell Landgraf Wall Street Communications Corporate Office Manager Tel: +1 (503) 577-3125 Tel: +1 (512) 252-7555 Email:
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[email protected] Photo Links: www.wallstcom.com/BeckTV/BeckTV_KING5-First-Air-BTS-Jerry-and-Lois.jpg www.wallstcom.com/BeckTV/BeckTV-King5_News_Studio.jpg Photo Caption: King-5 News Studio For Immediate Release BeckTV and TEGNA Media Collaborate in Relocating Seattle Stations to New Broadcast Facilities in Popular SoDo Area AUSTIN, Texas — Aug. 9, 2016 — BeckTV, one of the United States’ premier design-build systems integrators, has completed the relocation of the TEGNA Media-owned stations KING, KONG, and 24-hour regional news channel Northwest Cable News (NWCN) to a newly remodeled building located across town in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood and adjacent to the home fields of the city’s Major League Baseball and National Football League teams, the Mariners and Seahawks. Collaborating with TEGNA Media on the design and build of broadcast facilities within “Home Plate Center,” BeckTV assisted with programming, space planning, broadcast system design, broadcast budget development, and system integration to enable a rapid transition to more robust and innovative facilities. “Working closely with BeckTV, we designed and built our robust, flexible technical TV facilities ahead of schedule and smoothly cut our broadcast channels over to the beautifully designed new SoDo space two weeks earlier than originally planned,” said Dick Trumbo, technology manager at KING5. “BeckTV not only aided us in negotiating the complexity of busy production schedules and in establishing a floor plan conducive to better collaboration and greater efficiency, but also saved us time and money in moving from our old building.” From its highly visible position near popular sports and social gathering venues, Home Plate Center transmits three primary master control channels including the No.