[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Phil Alexander]

On 27 Dec 2006 at 12:16, Robert Meuser wrote:

 > Think about this. It is more than having a camera ready reporter
 > available. You also need at a minimum one video technician, a camera man
 > at least one  (probably two) audio people, a lighting director, an
 > electrician, a producer, a director, an AD and possibly some graphics
 > people. That is a big staff to carry for no planned show. Would you pay
 > 12 or more people the appropriate salary to sit around all night doing
 > nothing?  Then double that for the two shifts needed.

There was a time when we put up a "we interrupt this program for important
news" slide, and an announcer stepped into a booth to read copy.

Not everything has to be an on-location talking head to communicate,
although TV seems unable to cope otherwise. In these cases it is the
message NOT the medium that is important.


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Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology