Richard Lightstone, CAS Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Is there anyone who works at WGN who can explain this? The audio suddenly goes out on their morning news show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayer Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 I know a few people who work there. They do employ A1s for the morning show (2, I believe, they trade off during the 4 hour show), but the computer that controls the audio console crashed leaving them with only the reporter's mic open. The full duration of the outage was somewhere around 15 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Happens in the best houses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Reilly Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Those two are pretty fast with those dry erase boards. Practiced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandering Ear Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 That's a pretty funny montage made out of a stressfull situation. I especially like the board pointing at the producers for buying a cheap mixing console. I'm sure it's not true in this case, but i enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 Doh, that is so stupid. There's way too much automation in TV news these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccsnd Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 Doh, that is so stupid. There's way too much automation in TV news these days. It's really weird walking into a studio during production and there is only one or two people in the control room. It's going to get a lot worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 It already is. I recently was setting up an interview on a longform doc before a pro baseball game in Oakland, and there was a lone guy setting up cameras and mics all around the stadium, talking to someone on a headset. I asked if he was talking to a control room somewhere and he said he was. I asked it if was in the stadium or in a truck outside and he said the control room was in New Jersey--they ran all the games they were shooting from there--he and the on air talent were the only people "on the ground" at that site. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayer Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 It already is. I recently was setting up an interview on a longform doc before a pro baseball game in Oakland, and there was a lone guy setting up cameras and mics all around the stadium, talking to someone on a headset. I asked if he was talking to a control room somewhere and he said he was. I asked it if was in the stadium or in a truck outside and he said the control room was in New Jersey--they ran all the games they were shooting from there--he and the on air talent were the only people "on the ground" at that site. philp This sounds a lot like the MLB Network "Ballpark Cams". They aren't producing game coverage, but pre and post game "live shots". They use everything from Cueball cams to fully automated pedestals--all remotely controlled. If they only want video, they don't even need a tech at the stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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