ABSTRACT
Exterior Local Television Station It is 7:00 A.M. There is not much traffic on the street. Viewed from the outside, the building is rather unremarkable. It is a largely windowless structure surrounded by a number of equally unremarkable warehouse buildings. Only the cluster of satellite dishes in front gives any indication that there is something special about this building. (See Figure 1.1.)
Interior Television Control Room A half dozen people sit in the relative darkness of the control room. In front of them is a bank of several dozen video monitors. Some display the broadcast images from the other local stations; others contain monitors for the
to the station. (See Figure 1.2.)
In the center of the activity is the director, who is rapidly calling out commands to the members of his technical crew: camera operators, graphics specialists, and sound engineers. On the floor of the television studio is an elaborate set. The main news desk has room for the two principal news
end of the set is an interview area, where the mayor of the city is about to be interviewed. At the far end of the studio is a green wall that serves as the backdrop for the weather reports. The director calmly calls commands for everyone to get ready; the program title sequence, which is stored on a video server elsewhere in the building, is cued and started, and two hours of live television have now begun to be broadcast from the studio.
