 Sportsmax on on this feel good Friday I stress the term new look because on Thursday we revealed our groundbreaking state of the art studio from downtown Kingston for the past 13 years Sportsmax operated from 22 Chalmers Avenue in Kingston and continue to grow and develop into the world-class television statement it is today now in this new space we take in further steps into the future as we seek to evolve with the technological world in which we operate you might be wondering just how fancy this shiny new toy is well why don't we just tell you the transition started at least two years before the actual move it started with meetings amongst the technical engineering teams and the operational head to decide exactly what type of studio facility we wish to build so the news to the space and put us in a position to compete locally and globally we have invested in a lot of new technology fresh state of the art this actual studio space is you know early panels remote control lighting remote cameras a j-bed cetera you know things that one would expect in a studio space in 2023 so we are at the moment the most advanced studio facility in the Caribbean right but but that said we are now on par with other studio entities around I've been here since 2003 and everything that we have done has always been different producing sporting events on a daily basis or every week or every weekend you're rolling out to do us a production of an event has always set us different from all the other competition we've invested in augmented reality which can use for advertisers you know that will help us to do a lot of on-year advertisement and it's also in terms of our production or sporting production always it that we can use augmented reality you know to put on live graphics interactive graphics we have also created a very dynamic space where we have multiple sets so that will put us in a nice position to compete both locally and globally in terms of some of these networks we have facilities similar to what we have where you take in feeds and you then add commentary to it add graphics to it our new facilities now will allow us that kind of opportunity to produce events that are not even made a shot here in Jamaica and it allows us to do more remote production where the event and equipment limited equipment is taken to the venue and then in our studios we add the commentary we add the graphics and I think that now will make you know a step ahead of any other competition in the region one of the things that that sportsmax has done well one of the things that that that our directors or executive team has always encouraged us to push is carbon intake carbon unity sorry trying to to have an integrated um Caribbean in terms of how we broadcast what we broadcast what we put all data to our to our viewers yeah so some of our technical personalities they're just outlining a lot of the thought process that went behind getting where we are now and we are really really comfortable here really thrilled and really satisfied that we have been able to make a step that will benefit all of us and the viewers not the Leafs and Mariah and Ricardo I know that we have some tremendous years of television ahead of us here coming from the home of champions yeah I tell you guys something when I came to sportsmax in 2017 I was sold a vision and part of the vision is that we would have a state of the art studio and when I walked into the old studio I remember saying to the then head of productions oh yeah this is not bad but the the the type of ideas I have will require a lot more than this and in the early days when I was here Lance and Mariah I remember sitting in a number of meetings looking at what the new studio would look like and I must admit there came a point in the last six years that I've been here that I've wondered is this thing actually going to happen um but we are here and it is just magnificent and I love it you love it and everybody loves it um this is a magnificent space um that we can do so much with and um just absolutely thrilling and and the the the ideas that are already flowing and oh Mariah has a hundred and one yeah well I was going to say when you said that you've sat in those meetings and you felt like it would not come to life you all were just waiting for me because I joined in 2019 or in 2023 and things have progressed in you know we're ahead of time our studio I'm so proud of it you know I sit here and I feel like you know I am so blessed to be a part of history we are very blessed to be able because what we do it's creative we're creative minds and people always say creative minds are very very strange but we can see things in our brain that other people can't see and when we put out what we do it comes to life and I think you know it's a blessing Ricardo that we sit here every day and we get to share our views our opinions with our viewers and they welcome it so to do it from a space like this a beautiful space is a blessing and I can't wait for all the other projects that we have because now team we have no excuse we have no excuse but to put out top class work yeah you know what the high point of the launch yesterday was a moment that we uh beamed our CEO and nick matthews into one of the chairs here on the on the set which was um a magical moment there there there it is where he was outside on the outside with a lot of the other dignitaries celebrating the launch of this new sports max studio so we were you um Mariah and I Ricardo inside here we were getting ready to talk to nick matthews or CEO and he just appeared on the set with us green screen style and um it was a high point of the launch yesterday for me and the feedback I'm getting suggests that our viewers felt the same way well I did say it was my high point because I started to get ideas for those of you that missed the show yesterday I already started planning how I can be on one location and on the set so if you see me maybe I'm not here not just one location but Ocherias on the beach thanks for telling me oh sorry wasn't I supposed to say that one of the things I wanted to say as well um Lance and Mariah as it relates to this new space so when we were building up to unveiling the space yesterday um Lance gave us a performance that's showing us some of his versatility and I was thinking one of these Fridays we should have a studio show and when I say a studio show I mean a performance show so Mariah is going to model Lance will perform and we will have backup singers for Lance um and maybe I can do an opening for him or something like that I don't mind oh you want to model oh you don't want to model you want to dance when y'all sing what kind of dancer are you because we need to plan this effectively so I can bring in the things that you would require so props or props yes I need some backup dancers I need some um shiny pump um we can we can switch it up it's it depends on what y'all dance are you going to do um well you have to tune in for that because I don't know what both of you are singing what can you sing you're not dancing to what we're singing we're bringing in their separate performances okay so when I was younger I used to actually do Bollywood dancing okay so I trained professionally and people would have I would go on competitions there was a competition called the stand-up a hardback in Trinidad where I would dress up and of course our Bollywood attire and I would like be doing dance moves and stuff so I could do it with a win no I never won oh but I could still we can make you a winner on this show um and here's the thing Mariah I have a selection of dancehall music that I think you would be very good at dancing no dancehall dancing on this I'll be fired because I could dance dancehall but it's not appropriate on that note let's go to break because I need to speak to Ricardo what he says on the show break time