Rich Eison, well known by US football fans as host of NFL GameDay Morning on the NFL Network and a mainstay on ESPN's SportsCenter from 1996 to 2003, hosts The Rich Eison Show broadcast live Monday-Friday from DirecTV's El Segundo, California Studios on the Audience Network, as well as Fox Sports Radio.
In the summer of 2014, while the space was being refurbished into a television studio for the three-hour show, Victor had time to contemplate his design and the lighting fixtures he would need. "I wanted a variety of professional white light and other dynamic lighting and Elation was able to give me all the flavours I needed," he stated.
"I've been watching the Elation product line grow for quite a while and the product has gotten really good. I needed lighting that could work with a lot of different cameras and Elation LED lights had the superior light quality I was looking for. When we brought the fixtures in and used a very high-end camera for the initial camera test, the fixtures performed well and with no flicker which is very important."
The Rich Eison Show studio is a set with rich dark wood, gold-coloured panels, plush seating and a myriad of sports memorabilia that gives the space a warm, comfortable feel. Two of the studio's walls are made of glass and because the show runs in the morning hours, ample amounts of sunlight come in.
"The DW Profile and Fresnel lights give a bright and clean light with no green to the light at all," Victor comments. "It is pure daylight white and works with the sunlight that comes in from the studio windows." Powered by a 250W white LED engine, both the DW Fresnel and DW Profile give a soft light that is easily adjustable from warm to cool white so that Victor can modify the color temperature if needed. Both fixtures offer zoom and beam shaping for highly effective directional white light control.
Also in the rig are Elation TVL 2000 II and TVL 3000 II white light LED luminaires that blend 3W warm white and cool white LEDs for a uniform projection of flat white light and have high CRI levels. Both luminaires also have the ability to adjust with the ambient daylight and draw a low 72W of power. Victor lights both set pieces and talent in warm colour tones using the fixtures' dynamic white LED engines to vary the colour temperature.
Subtle shades of colour find their way into the lighting scheme via Elation Level Q7 Par lights (RGBW), which Victor uses to accent the scenery, wood and panels in an amber colour, while also using them to splash a bit of blue here and there. Filling out the rig is light from super small Elar Q1 lights, each with a single RGBW LED.
(Jim Evans)
