Televised Feeds from Winter Park

Winter Park Resort is wired and ready for live picture feeds and ‘talk-backs’.  Over the past year, Denver television stations have enjoyed a great addition to their news productions at minimal costs, thanks to the resort. 

Winter Park has two fiber lines to Denver Teleport, where we can send video or a live feed to anywhere in the world via satellite.  There are two live cameras at the resort that can be switched out from Fiber 8.  The first camera is a remote controlled camera the located at the base on top of the West Portal building.  It offers views of The Village at Winter Park, village events and lower trails and chairlifts.  The second camera is a computer-controlled camera at the 10,700-foot summit of Winter Park Mountain.  This camera has 360-degree vision capabilities, with a powerful lens capable of focusing up to 5 miles away.  This camera is a favorite with local meteorologists who frequently use a time lapse weather picture for their evening weathercasts. 

Fiber 8 can also be used for live ‘wire and fire’ talkbacks.  Winter Park’s Communications Department provides the camera, a Sony PD 150, the cable and the talking head.  The TV station provides, well, nothing besides an anchor and their production expertise.  Last year, Denver television stations used this service frequently with great success. 

The Communications Department frequently produces Video News Releases using the Final Cut Pro edit system.  Our second fiber, Fiber 9, is where our latest releases can be found.