University Of Michigan Creates Memorable Game Day Experiences

Michigan Stadium, the largest sports stadium in the United States and the third largest globally, is home to the University of Michigan NCAA 2023 National Champions Wolverine football team.

With the team's steadfast popularity, the University of Michigan has a continual need to elevate the fan experience. Prior to the start of its title-winning season, the school’s sports production team embarked on a comprehensive upgrade of multiple sports facilities on campus, most notably Michigan Stadium.

With the help of CTI, a leading audio-visual systems technology provider, the school installed Canare 32MDST-4U patch panels to monitor all the feeds going in and out of the production team’s video routers, which is crucial in this type of SDI router environment. The University of Michigan production team is led by Assistant Athletic Director for Broadcasting and Production Collin McCarty, and Director of Game Presentation and Fan Experience Jake Stocker.

"The University of Michigan team realised the need to update many of the facilities around the campus," said Ryan Brodie, CTI branch director for broadcast productions. "We were brought in to update the video production system, which was the core of a comprehensive upgrade that included video, audio and lighting systems throughout the campus. Canare has been our go-to partner for all patch panels because the company has great product availability and reliability, so we called on them once again for this project. We installed Canare patch panels for all video patches around the router, which is fairly large."

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