[BC] The Driveway Shot

[Jeff Allen]

Maybe it was a competitive edge.  When I was at a large NBC station we had
two live trucks, the comp had only one.  We would have both live trucks out
on anything interesting or not each newscast except for the morning show
we'd have one out, usually the weather guy.

J Allen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Brister" <bbrister at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] The Driveway Shot


> I think you pretty much hit it. I used to work for a TV station where top
> management had a factory production output kind of mentality. They just
> could not stand to see all the live gear sitting in the station and not
> being used. "Look at all the money we spend on this stuff only to have it
> sit around here doing nothing". They will look for anything, no matter how
> silly, to keep the gear in motion thereby justifying the money they spent
on
> it.
>
> Bill Brister
> Houston, TX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Larry Fuss
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:49 PM
> To: 'Broadcasters' Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [BC] The Driveway Shot
>
> > Why is it important to have someone standing in front of the White House
> doing
> the same thing? We've all seen the driveway many times before.
>
> TV stations here in Vegas are really bad about that.  They'll do a live
shot
> on the 10 pm news from the scene of the tragic morning-drive accident.  Of
> course, by then, there's nothing to see but some street lights.  Or
they'll
> do a live shot from the front of the Board of Education building, where
the
> board met hours earlier.  At 10 pm, it's just an empty building.  Is there
> really any point to that?  Why not just stand in front of green screen and
> key a picture behind the reporter?  I guess it's because "we've got a
remote
> truck and by gawd we're gonna use it, even if there's nothing to see."
>
> LF
>
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