Universal Sports is consolidating its television and digital units into a new world headquarters, encompassing a state-of-the-art HD-ready, 40,000 square-foot production and office facility in Westlake Village, Calif.

"Integrating our television, digital and corporate personnel into the new Universal Sports Westlake Village Campus symbolizes our commitment to expanding our Olympic sports coverage," says Universal Sports Chairman-CEO Claude Ruibal. "We're very pleased we can offer our distributors, advertisers and viewers the best possible creative presentation of our products with the immediate ability to move to HD combined with the ability to offer ongoing live news coverage of the Olympic sports we cover."

The new facilities contain production, control rooms, editing, sound and graphics facilities, with a 10,000 square foot production area as well as a 6,000 square foot stage.  Employees and facilities currently located in Santa Monica and Glendale, Calif., as well as those in Bethesda, Md., will be relocated to the new Universal Sports Campus for 2010, with only a sales staff remaining in New York.