Brian Nupnau - Engineering Manager, Game Creek Video

Episode description

• 3:26 - What Brian does as Manager of Engineers at Game Creek Video.
• 4:20 - What a television truck is made up of.
• 5:33 - How much mobile television trucks cost.
• 6:32 - How trucks are custom built for sports networks.
• 8:08 - How the trucks are planned for which event and how they are integrated. together.
• 10:43 - Planning ESPN’s MegaCast College Football National Championship.
• 12:29 - How much dedication an tv truck engineer puts into a production.
• 13:38 - How working in mobile television is like a brotherhood.
• 14:47 - How much influence with the networks when putting on a major sporting event.
• 16:55 - What a truck engineer’s responsibility entails.
• 18:17 - How they maintain the tv truck when a piece of equipment breaks.
• 19:56 - How he’s able to manage demanding producers and directors.
• 20:38 - How Brian started in the tv business when he was 8 years old.
• 22:15 - How he worked with news networks all over the world as a teenager.
• 23:08 - How Brian started working on major events.
• 24:44 - Brian was hired the same day of an event when another engineer had quit.
• 25:44 - Most challenging event Brian has ever been a part of.
• 29:55 - How engineers can save the show with technical problems.
• 30:32 - How he’s had to literally put out fires on a tv production.
• 32:46 - How Game Creek plans for productions that are not near a big city.
• 34:16 - What events Brian has worked in his career.
• 35:29 - What the differences between sports, political and entertainment events are.
• 36:55 - How many trucks are in Game Creek’s fleet.
• 37:25 - How Game Creek tv trucks are named.
• 38:48 - How each tv truck has a “personality” and how Brian adjusts to it.
• 39:39 - When a “Gremlin” make it difficult to maintain the equipment on a truck.
• 40:20 - What the best thing about what Brian does as a mobile tv truck engineer.
• 41:29 - Best accomplishment of his career.
• 42:06 - What’s it’s like being a truck engineer for anyone who is interested in this industry.
• 44:08 - What qualities an aspiring engineer should have.
• 44:49 - How someone can find out more about Game Creek Video’s apprenticeship program.
• 46:32 - What some of the advantages of being a truck engineer are.
• 47:32 - What the next big event is for Brian and what to keep in mind for that event. (recorded prior to the cancellation of sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic)
• 49:33 - Brian shares a funny story working on auto racing.
• 51:39 - What he would like sports fans to know about the industry he works in.