The story
The Anchor in Gunthorpe is, without question, the busiest family pub in the East Midlands, with capacity for up to 1,000 guests across its indoor and outdoor spaces. A venue on that scale needed a network and AV system that could work as hard as the pub itself: every screen showing the match a table asked for, sound that carried properly across a room this size, and Wi-Fi that held up under a full house.
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The brief came with a hard deadline. With opening day fixed and no flexibility in the timescale, the entire system had to be designed, installed and working in two weeks.
Location
Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire
Venue
Family pub and riverside venue, capacity 1,000
Pillar
Play, Protect
Scope
Commercial SkyQ satellite system, 16 televisions with multi-receiver viewing, 3m dvLED screen, 9 zones of audio, custom touchscreen control interface, full internal and external Wi-Fi
Audio
K-array, 9 zones
Displays
Samsung, Frame and Terrace models
Timeline
2 weeks, delivered to a fixed opening date
The Process
A project this size, on a deadline this tight, only works with everything planned before a single cable is run. Our design team mapped the whole venue in advance, indoors and out, so the installation itself became a matter of execution rather than problem-solving on site.
The Solution
A commercial SkyQ satellite system feeds sixteen televisions, each capable of showing a different receiver, so every match a table wants to watch is on a screen somewhere in the venue at once. A 3m wide dvLED screen anchors the main space for the games that draw a crowd.
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Sound is handled by K-array across nine zones, tuned so a venue built for 1,000 people stays clear and balanced rather than becoming a wall of noise. The whole system – screens, sound and satellite – is run from a custom touchscreen interface built specifically for how the venue’s team actually works. Underpinning it all is Wi-Fi engineered to cover the pub fully, inside and out, so it holds up under a packed house rather than buckling under it.
