[QuadList] modern Television

[Trevor Brown]

When new technologies come through the door, they are frequently not offered
to older workers.  Management draws a line between the new "computers' and
the old "tape machines" and offers what little orientation and training is
given to office girls and interns instead of experienced operational people.
Then when they have have cleared the landscape of the "old school people who
couldn't adapt," you get all the blessings of robotic cameras -- lousy
camera work, the same shot everyday at the same point in every show, talent
trying to rock around to get in the shot, or every shot super loose so that
it's not obvious the framing is wrong or that the video is out of focus,
almost no motion in the cameras at all because nobody trusts them to be
stable when you try to move them live, and the inexperienced people who
operate the console often don't have the knowledge to improve the shots
anyway.  

    Then when you have the on air look of the station determined by the low
rent help over in the office pool you get all the blessings of full station
automation, competing spots hard cut video to video, upcut programs, wildly
varying audio levels, wrong events on the air like yesterday's promos today,
long periods of black when the computer doesn't understand what the log
service in Freakistan put into the list and the maintenance guy has to drive
in from the suburbs to the 'lights out' master control and on and on.  Yes,
it's certainly good we've gotten those expensive old farts out of the way so
we can have all these new cheaper ways of doing things. 

Bob Bruner

W9TAJ

 

 

So it's not just in the UK, that we have this problem Bob

Trevor UK member

G8CJS also

 

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