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NBC to use SkyCam for primary viewing angle during Titans-Steelers Thursday Night Football

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One of the things television sports producers have long been enamored with is the idea of producing a sports broadcast that looks like a video game. Thursday Night Football viewers will get a taste of such thinking with NBC’s coverage of the Titans-Steelers in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. The network said its primary viewing angle (on first and second downs) will be via a dual-SkyCam system, with one camera about 15 or 17 feet above the field and only a few feet behind the deepest offensive player. (The dual-SkyCam coverage also has one system that covers the full field.