The 2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs, which take place Sunday night in Toronto, don’t just happen. It takes a lot of people (955, in fact) a long time (an estimated 8,400 hours, in fact) to turn a parking lot into the hottest music stage in the nation for one night.
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Check out these numbers:
1 million – Weight, in pounds, of steel and gear used for stages
35 - Number of tractor-trailers to load in stage gear
237,000 – Amount, in watts, of audio
2,048 – Number of audio channels used
53 – Length, in kilometres, of audio/video fiber cable
16 – Number of cameras used to capture the show
182 – Number of microphones used to broadcast the show
325 – Number of two-way radios used during the show
5,800 – Length, in feet, of barricades used
185 – Number of light fixtures used on the red carpet
2,300 – Time, in hours, it takes to tear everything down
