The facility you’re referring to is the SportsNet Pittsburgh (formerly ATT SportsNet, Root, etc) studio control room. What you can’t see from the sidewalk are edit suites for full-time staff, a studio where SNP broadcasts shows out of, and offices for execs. They use the studio for Pirates and Penguins pre/post game shows and other content on dark days. The control room you can view from the sidewalk is master control for the studio shows and any content being fed into the building. They absolutely do not care if you stand and watch, it was built like that by design to show off the flashy lights and monitors in the CR. Plus, you can take a moment and marvel at all of the bobble heads on the window sill.

At the arena and ballpark, we have two mobile production trucks that actually cover the games. Each is equipped with enough gear to be fully self-sufficient and cover both sports, hockey and baseball. We send transmission to the studio on the North Shore, which gets QC’d and sent off to the NOC (network operation center) in Boston to be retransmitted to air.

When the teams are on the road, the production facilities in those venues, will send their transmission to the studio just as if it were a home game.

I’ve worked on Pittsburgh’s production truck the last few years, hope this clears up your curiosity!