{"id":299160,"date":"2026-07-18T00:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:27:50","slug":"fox-sports-rod-conti-on-world-cup-final-studio-plan-from-brooklyn-bridge-park-to-metlife-stadium-sports-video-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299160\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX Sports\u2019 Rod Conti on World Cup Final Studio Plan: From Brooklyn Bridge Park to MetLife Stadium \u2013 Sports Video Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOX Sports VP, Studio Remote Operations, Rod Conti breaks down how the broadcaster covered the 2026 FIFA World Cup \u2014 and what it\u2019s pulling off for the Final. Instead of anchoring at a single iconic location, FOX deployed seven studio sets across the U.S. as part of its \u201cFollow the Fan\u201d strategy, with a small team at its Pico facility in Los Angeles coordinating roughly 150 crew members in a role Conti compares to air-traffic control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the World Cup Final, that strategy reaches its peak: a three-hour pre-match show kicks off at Brooklyn Bridge Park before talent makes a 40-minute journey to MetLife Stadium via ferry across the Hudson, a helicopter flight past the Statue of Liberty to Teterboro Airport, and a police escort to the gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conti also reflects on the tournament as a whole \u2014 crediting field crews as the \u201cunsung heroes\u201d who kept productions moving across host cities on tight timelines. And he calls it the biggest logistical challenge FOX Sports has ever undertaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX Sports VP, Studio Remote Operations, Rod Conti breaks down how the broadcaster covered the 2026 FIFA World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-299160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}