“FOOTBALL IS BACK!” as the collective sighs of relief are heard nationwide from a loyal, dedicated and often times rabid fan-base. Arguably, America’s most popular sport ends it’s lockout. To many people, many things.The NFL, in fact, will be hosting a 2011-2012 season. The FANS can pencil in the fact that they now have at least 16 confirmed “Dates” over 17 weeks, further to include an occasional Monday and Thursday reprieve.

For the PLAYERS it’s “GO TIME”! Vince Lombardi said of the game “Individual commitment to a group effort – thats what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” For Ferro Productions and it’s team, it’s back to work and it’s not that far of a stretch to apply Coach Lombardi’s words across the board to the inner workings of Ferro.

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Grant it, it’s not quite the pressure of loosing a football game in a stadium of thousands, however, it could easily be a fumble ON THE AIR viewed by millions. There’s nothing like pressure to motivate a true professional. In addition to a demanding schedule matched to that of the NFL’s, Ferro’s crew produces seven shows a week for the Giants, with and about the intensity of winning and loosing. Given the analogy of a teams playbook, flawless production and execution, often at a moments notice (read “calling an audible”) is mandatory to stay on top be it a professional football player or an individual team member of the Ferro production group.

With the Ferro crew producing eight shows a week for the Giants, let’s make that 128 shows, driven by 16 games over a “regular” season, it’s obvious there is an extraordinary level of intensity, responsibility and applied talent to produce that type and frequency of flawless programming.

Ferro cameras set up alongside others of the media at a players press conference

As exclusive providers of broadcast programming for the New York Giants affording viewer’s the best possible coverage of their favorite football team, the Ferro crew’s schedule has to mirror, as well as work around and beyond, the schedule’s of the players and coaches while managing any restrictions of the physical space. While this might sound easy, some members of the crew assuredly will tell a different tale.

“It’s stressful when you have to wait for a player’s meeting to end so you can scramble to set up a full press conference in the team’s auditorium in less than ten minutes so it can be aired live on one of the most popular networks for New York sports [MSG Networks], but we get it done week after week,” expressed Dave Ryan, Ferro Productions lead audio engineer.

All season long, Ferro Productions will continue to produce all of it’s programing out of a state of the art broadcast studio located at the Timex Performance Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Of these shows, five are aired on MSG Networks, one on My9, and one on FIOS TV and Giants.com.

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“Our feedback on all the Social Media frontiers (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and from Giant’s fans worldwide, send us the clear message that they enjoy viewing our shows as much as we enjoy creating them.” said Frank Scacciaferro, “There is no [ i ] in [team] while [work] shares not a single letter with [play], [game] nor [NFL]. What is the common ground for all, are the collective, individual and committed efforts that connect what we do for “work” as a team and company, up through to a societal level, hopefully making this world, by our work, a more civilized place.”
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