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a little more than 70,000 people are gonna see the game here at Levi's Stadium but over 115 million people will see it here on television you see this isn't just the broadcast of the Super Bowl this is the Super Bowl broadcast so 11 tractor trailers full of broadcast tech made their way from the Rockies to Silicon Valley immediately after the AFC Championship game to set up this the CBS Super Bowl 50 broadcast compound an amazing array of broadcast tech tied together with 32 miles of cable so complicated I've been lost at least once they've got a map that shows avenues this way and streets this way 10 a guard is CBS executive VP of engineering his team built all this and runs it you would like to be sitting in my chair when everything's working when it's not working it's not necessarily so much fun but the truth of the matter is the person sitting at home they have the best seat football's a game of inches but broadcasting it's a game of shots there are 70 camera angles here for Super Bowl 50 a hundred camera angles total available in and around the game to a crew working in a place like this Super Bowl tech 101 pylon cam that's right you see a camera lens there there's another one over here two HD cameras in each of eight pylons these sit at goal lines and sidelines and yep they got microphones too because what's a hit if you can't hear it I love seeing a guy go into the pylon because I know we're gonna have that shot you know I know that we're gonna have that moment it's actually even better if the guy goes right up to it and doesn't knock it over because then it even continues it's definitely gonna get mowed down and we've got our technicians ready to pounce when the pylons get knocked over that they've got to quickly reset the pylon and the camera inside so we're ready for the next play now a lot of the big cameras we have around the field are actually 5k resolution even beyond that amazing 4k TV you may have just gotten during the holidays these high res cameras let us get more out of close-ups and slo-moes that's also helped by high frame rate cameras like this that are dead - just doing high frame rate and replay in the most smooth action and we have technology in the booth to stitch a bunch of these cameras together to give you this fly around angle like something out of the matrix and this year the CBS Super Bowl coverage is going to lean hard until the NFL's next-gen stats technology this kind of turns every player on the field into a live data node throwing off data about the speed of a run the duration their dynamics on the field and then putting that into the broadcast in almost real-time things that human statisticians just can't do you now have sensors and all the players shoulder pads so we know where everybody is so now it's a matter of taking all that data and trying to be able to make sense of it and because of that you know there's stats that come out every week that we hadn't even thought it so we're trying to document the story we've got some great technology that I vision 360 cameras that are around the light grid the pylon cameras I think that's the little the cherry on top that makes it interesting eye candy for the viewers you