Setting Up the NBCU Booth at CES

By Frank Radice, NBC Universal

Hello from semi sunny Las Vegas... it's a little after noon on the 4th of January and this feels more like the hours before a major rock concert than the days before an electronics convention.

Hundreds of people have come together to put the finishing touches on the NBCU booth and get it ready for the onslaught of techies from all over the world.

Our people started arriving here on the 27th of December with 5 Trucks loaded with different pieces of the booth. The 2 trailers for the TV offices and uplink vehicles got here on the 28th.

...With set pieces coming in from Illinois and New Jersey.

Mediaport's trucks came in from Salt Lake City, and people converged from all over the country to build and operate all this stuff.

Construction itself started on December 29th and as you can see, we are well on our way. We should have tech checks on all non broadcast stuff by later today.

One interesting side note: One of the VP's from CEA dropped by our set up and marveled at the iWall... it's sure to be one of the most talked about things at the convention.

Later this afternoon the cameras should be in and we can start checking them out.

We will be ready to go on the air on Sunday night. The big kick-off is Monday morning.

See you at CES.