A studio control room of one
Cory Bergman August 6th, 2006
I remember back in the day when just three of us could pull off a live newscast. We preset the studio cameras (don’t move, we’d tell the anchors.) Robert would be on audio. Juanita would run tapes. And I would punch the switcher, advance the still store and handle the Chyron. But with today’s technology, that’s child’s play. Thomson Grass Valley has a control room automation system called Ignite that allows a single person to put a live newscast on the air. Small market stuff? Nope. KABC is using Ignite to power their morning and weekend newscasts, and the Los Angeles station is planning on transitioning to the evening and nightside newscasts, as well. All with one operator. Amazing. Reader Input: LR commenter Don points us to video of a case of an anchor not coping well as his station gets used to a new automated system. Unfortunately for him, it was an internal audio problem the audience didn’t even know was happening.
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1. Barry S. | August 6th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Whats kind of amazing is I knew a morning TD who could direct, punch the show, change tapes, and adjust audio if the master control op (audio guy) had to step away for 2 secs all at once. The CG and still store were sequenced so it was pretty easy to automate those.. But I was pretty much in awe.. As for me, I was on a camera.
But I also remember that these production positions were entry level positions which I used to get a foot hold with. There will be many others who aren’t able to gain real life experience in these positions because - they won’t exist.
And that isn’t necessarily a positive.
2. Steve Safran | August 6th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
We have a similar system at NECN. The producers take care of chryon and video advancement. I’ll say this much - taking the two-second pre-roll out of the mix makes for a hell of a tighter show.
There will always be entry-level jobs in local news. And some would argue the pay in many markets means the entry-level jobs far outnumber the jobs for people with experience…
3. Don | August 6th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Since the new LR moderates comments with links, I’ll just urge you to go to YouTube and search “Joe Moore.” That’s another monticeto station that got Pakrervision er–Ignite. Then the anchor went crazy on-air.
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