foot monitor above a wide-open newsroom where desks of all the anchors, reporters and weather staff are located. The executive offices, as well as finance and human resources offices, are on the second floor, along with other “collaborative” spaces. Outside, the company replaced the large video board that wrapped around the southwest corner of the building with a much larger (20-foot by 40-foot) and higher-quality video board, something you might see in a place like Times Square in New York City. “We started working on the move before we even had a building,” Griffin said. “We have 200 terabytes of data storage here and over 30 miles of wiring for all the video that we move around. That takes a lot of planning.” It took 13 semi-trailer trucks to transport all of the new furniture and equipment as part of the move, he said. “Working in downtown Oklahoma City has so exceeded everybody’s expectations. There’s so much to do here and so many great restaurants. Being part of the community is so neat and having just action from the streetcars downtown, the Christmas lights are starting to go up. There’s just lots of energy down here that we never
truly realized,” Griffin said. “Our goal here is to find ways we can activate the exterior of our new home and do things that bring viewers to downtown Oklahoma City. We want to be the champion of downtown Oklahoma City. And I think you’ve seen that in our coverage so far.”
Griffin Media CEO David Griffin, second from left, stands with KWTV News 9 anchors Karl Torp, Amanda Taylor and David Payne in their new main studio located in downtown OKC.
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