EYE ON THE NUMBERS FOR CBS’s SUPER BOWL 50 BROADCAST
1 – Camera placed on the Needle at California’s Great America Amusement Park in Santa Clara, Calif. that will be solely focused on Levi’s Stadium
1 - Post Production Center with the most advanced media sharing technology ever used in a CBS Sports Remote Production (including 11 fully loaded Avid suites, 1 V.O. booth and 10 graphics stations)
3 – Aerial camera systems
4 – Sets used on Super Bowl Sunday – 3 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara and 1 in San Francisco
4 – Super Bowls called by play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz
4 - Hours of live pregame coverage on THE SUPER BOWL TODAY
6 – Super Bowls CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus has overseen as Executive Producer
8 – Super Bowls James Brown has hosted studio coverage
8 – Super Bowls Phil Simms has served as an analyst – the second most ever behind John Madden (11)
9 – CBS Sports announcers making their Super Bowl broadcast debut (Tony Gonzalez, Bart Scott, Amy Trask, Mike Carey, Trent Green, Ian Eagle, Evan Washburn, Allie LaForce and Jay Feely)
12 – Production Trucks being utilized for Super Bowl game and pre-game broadcasts
16 – Camera angles provided by the eight Pylon Cameras, which will debut for the first time in a Super Bowl
17 – Number of CBS Sports on-air announcers part of Super Bowl Sunday pre-game and game coverage
19 – Super Bowls televised by CBS, the most by any network
23 – Number of combined Super Bowls worked by CBS Sports’ lead NFL producer, Lance Barrow (12) and Director, Mike Arnold (11)
70 – Game Cameras
100+ – Overall cameras used for game and pre-game broadcast
256 – Microphones being used for Super Bowl broadcast
360 – Number of degrees CBS Sports’ Eye Vision 360 replay system will show viewers on key plays during Super Bowl 50
550 – CBS Sports personnel in the Bay Area covering the game, pregame and CBS Sports Network shows
65,000 – Square footage for CBS Super Bowl compound
1.1 million – Communication points in the compound’s intercom system
*All numbers include Super Bowl 50