What Are YOU Lookin’ At?
January 17th, 2012 at 8:30 am by Jacquie Walker under Jacquie Walker's Newsroom Notebook
Our temporary news studio is in one corner of the set for ‘Winging It’ which airs each morning on CW23.
This may be too much inside baseball to share – but it’s been bugging me – and several people have asked me about it. While we are broadcasting the news from a temporary studio – we don’t have all the tools you would expect from a TV news operation. Take, for instance, the Teleprompter. Normally it is situated to project the script right in front of the camera lens…..so when I’m looking at you, the viewer, I’m actually seeing the entire script roll before my eyes.
We are using the cameras normally dedicated to ‘Winging It’ which don’t have Teleprompters. As a temporary fix, the script is rolling on the monitor a few inches below the camera lens.
In this temporary studio, without Teleprompters, the script is rolling on a monitor sitting UNDER the camera lens. How can I be looking at you, when I am forced to look down below the camera for the news copy? In my case, I’m trying to memorize or ad-lib as much of the script as is reasonable.
As I said, this is temporary, and won’t last much longer. The payoff will be fantastic. But, in the meantime, know that we are all trying to make the best of an unusual situation – and we ARE trying to look at you!
Do you plan on showing us any progress of your new Channel 4 news set?
Very soon, Wayne. I’ve been taking photos — but I need to get the go-ahead from the man in charge. When that happens I will share what I have. It’ll be worth the wait!
With the changes to rebuild the studio set does this also mean a upgrade to full HD news casts as well?
It seems like WIVB is moving that direction with the new commercials produced lately.
Thanks for your reply in advance and keep up the great work!
Very soon you will see it spelled out in promotional announcements, Jay. Please stay tuned. Good things are coming!