Princeton Athletics To Build State-Of-The-Art H.G. Levine Broadcast Center

The Princeton University Department of Athletics is thrilled to announce its plans to build the H.G. Levine Broadcast Center, which will become the department's state-of-the-art facility for its broadcast production and multi-media initiatives.

The broadcast center will be located in Jadwin Gym and will feature a studio for live and on-demand content, two broadcast control rooms and an editing station. The center will be connected via fiber to Princeton Stadium and to most of Princeton's other athletic venues through the existing IP network, greatly enhancing the live and in-venue production capabilities from multiple sites. In addition, these productions will be network quality, enabling them to be transmitted to and then aired on all ESPN platforms, including Princeton's digital partner ESPN+ as well as ESPN linear networks, and on select regional sports networks.

In addition to live game productions, Princeton will also be able to greatly expand the quality of its creative and on-demand content. The broadcast studio, the first in the Ivy League, will include two sets, a news desk and also a sit-down interview area, along with a green screen for video and still images. The news desk will be portable, which will allow for game-day programming directly from the venues themselves, such as courtside at basketball.

The Levine Broadcast Center will also be the control room for the brand-new videoboard that debuts during the 2018-19 basketball season in Jadwin Gym.

Finally, the broadcast center will offer opportunities for Princeton University students and students from the local area to gain hands-on experience and education in broadcast engineering and production via internships and employment.

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"This is a game-changer for Princeton Athletics," says Ford Family Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux Samaan. "This new facility will feature the latest technology and equipment housed in an ideal location to drastically elevate our in-game streaming and multimedia productions. The center allows us to provide an even better experience for our amazing student-athletes, as well as our fans and supporters, and will allow us to better share the department's unique content with a much wider audience."

The H.G. Levine Broadcast Center is being made possible through a generous gift from Steven Mayer, a member of the Class of 1981 and a baseball player as an undergraduate, and his wife Laura Mayer. The center is being named after Steve's late uncle, whose life was tragically cut short by a car accident when he was a college freshman. Like many Princeton University students, Steve's uncle was a first-generation college student and an accomplished student athlete.

Marcoux Samaan commented, "We are so grateful to Steve and Laura for their most generous gift and their commitment to having the new broadcast center harness the power of sports not only to assist in our recruitment of future generations of athletes to Princeton, but also more generally to inspire young students from all backgrounds, particularly those from low-income families, and help them understand, develop, and realize their opportunities and aspirations."

The H.G. Levine Broadcast Center is scheduled for completion in the late spring of 2019.

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