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02/03/2011

Clear-Com Intercoms Keep Communications Cool For Hell's Kitchen

Clear-Com, a leader in mission-critical voice-communication systems, is helping FOX's popular culinary-competition series Hell's Kitchen, which stars internationally renowned celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, with its communication by providing the Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom, V-Series intercom panels and CellCom integra wireless intercom.
The production team has been using Clear-Com solutions for the past eight seasons and is now relying on this new configuration for its most important communications needs. The show employs Eclipse as the heart of an intercom network featuring the V-Series panels and CellCom Integra, enabling reliable, flexible communications for staff members, who must stay in constant contact to keep up with the show's frenetic production pace.
Clear-Com's Eclipse Median brings most of the wired and wireless communications devices used by Hell's Kitchen staff members into the same communications environment, vastly streamlining the show's overall production workflow.
Eclipse can accommodate both Clear-Com and third-party systems, so when an employee needs to speak to another team member, he only needs to pick up the nearest device handy to enter the network. This level of access is indispensable to Hell's Kitchen, as the show's action revolved around the spirited interplay between Ramsay and the contestants, requiring, among other things, production editors to follow each contestant and report back to Ramsay, via IFB and/or CellCom wireless system, on cooking errors, miscues and other issues. Further accessibility is afforded by the user-friendly design of the Clear-Com equipment, with minimal learning time required of first-time users.
Second Engineer Tony Gonzales said: "Clear-Com listened to our production needs and put together a package of equipment that was truly the right fit. The combination of the Eclipse digital matrix with V-Series panels and CellCom systems gives us a tremendous amount of communications flexibility, making it much less stressful to manage the various tasks that go into a typical episode of Hell's Kitchen. It truly frees us up to go anywhere in the facility that production takes us, without having to worry about losing a connection."
During Hell's Kitchen filming and production, up to 60 staff members communicate through the Eclipse Median intercom frame. About 30 staffers work off of Clear-Com ICS-92 legacy panels directly connected to the frame, while the rest are on CellCom beltpacks, V-Series panels and a HME PRO850 Wireless Intercom System. Technical staff members are the main users of the CellCom digital wireless system, which operates on a different frequency band than the wireless microphones used in Hell's Kitchen productions, virtually eliminating RF interference. In addition, the full-duplex 7 kHz bandwidth of CellCom offers a level of audio clarity and quality that reduces strain on a user's ears and improves workflow by reducing the need to repeat messages.
Bob Boster, Worldwide Vice President of Sales, Clear-Com, said: "We are thrilled that Clear-Com is playing such an important role on this popular unscripted series. Hell's Kitchen has demanding communications requirements that need to interates seamlessly with video and audio monitoring at the same workstation. With Clear-Com, end users can talk with contestants, talent, production staff, and other users either privately or with other team members, as our solutions provide for both group and one-on-one conversations. We're happy to have supplied the talented production team behind this show with an intercom system that truly makes their jobs easier."
(KMcA)
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