rkolsen 1684 Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 That RKO kid sure likes spending other peoples money on fiber. The KBEX engineers are charged with finding solutions cheaper than fiber. You might get a rush ordering up a few hours from the sweet "fiber bunnies" on the phone...but wait till we climb up yer butt when we get the invoice. Why microwave? Ownership... Reliability... Bandwidth... Flexible... Cost... Microwave over Fiber for intra-city links and paths (even longhaul) any day. You already have a license for it in most cases. I was basing it on articles I’ve read on Broadcast Engineering and TVTechnology. Fiber or business cable allows you to send back more - you don’t have to say take down one of the SkyCams for a microwave shot. WCVB had an explanation about you may see other things on their online web streams. I get microwave - you own it and can be live for as long as you want. I know some stations are setting up their own mesh LTE networks. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-204835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 Was digging around for something relating the possible new logo being discussed in the TEGNA graphics thread, and found this behind-the-scenes of Allen Parkway circa 1968. http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/Behind_the_Scenes_at_Houston’s_KHOU_-_Channel_11 Just seconds into it there is an eerie shot, taken from almost the exact angle this video was taken at [MEDIA=twitter]901804815633846273[/MEDIA] Coincidentally, the building was being remodeled when the 1968 film was made. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-205969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 468 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 KHOU 11 just posted this video on their YouTube page. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-211674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad 113 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 KHOU 11 just posted this video on their YouTube page. Exactly a year after Harvey hit the old KHOU building built in 1968. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-211742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 KHOU 11 just posted this video on their YouTube page. Dang, that's what, 2...2 and a half feet in the studio? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-211963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4745 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Dang, that's what, 2...2 and a half feet in the studio? And they found a few more feet bobbing in an edit bay...and a head floating in the production control room. Dang gators! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-211980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
east-tx-tv 121 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 After all that, it's hard to fathom any owner-operator even considering wanting to stay there if there were other higher-ground opportunities for them. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-212006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 437 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 the full 8 minute doc. I do wonder, since they are getting the new digs in Westheimer in early 2019...what is going to happen to this somewhat impressive temp set. Will they donate it to the University or what will they do? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-212007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4374 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 After all that, it's hard to fathom any owner-operator even considering wanting to stay there if there were other higher-ground opportunities for them. WVUE was devastated by Katrina (so much so that Emmis had to take it off the market when they unloaded the rest of their TV group to LIN) but even then, it couldn’t have been this bad. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-212020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 This came up in my recommended videos on Youtube. Looks like WFAA did a bit about the flooding at the end of the year last year, featuring the stories of the people at WFAA that worked to get KHOU back on the air with the webcast and news simulcast in the days after. the full 8 minute doc. It appears that they moved production into a trailer of some sort. Around 7:19 in that video you can see the "new" set on the monitor walls. Guessing it was getting too expensive to keep up the WFAA thing. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-212059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSRep 5 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Hey all: Just saw this posted on Newscaststudio about KHOU opening their new streetside studio. I know the studio is only about 750 square feet, but maybe I expected a bit more of a set, and not just a stand-up area with views to the patio and street. https://www.newscaststudio.com/2018/10/01/khou-avenida-streetside-studio/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 364 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Definitely underwhelming for me. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1448 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 My thoughts exactly - there's no way they can produce Great Day Houston and the noon newscast from that studio like they said when first announced. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3304 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Boring and underwhelming. It’s like they converted a small shop or restaurant into a TV studio. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSZNews 1051 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Boring and underwhelming. It’s like they converted a small shop or restaurant into a TV studio. *Cough* THEY ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM ONE OF THE LARGEST NATURAL DISASTERS ON RECORD GM Chrysler. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4745 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 *Cough* THEY ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM ONE OF THE LARGEST NATURAL DISASTERS ON RECORD GM Chrysler. Yeah! Heck it wasn't that long ago that the KHOU set consisted of... Office desk and chair... A map of the world... And a clock. A clock with hands. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1448 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Noted for sure and not at all wanting to downplay Harvey's impacts but I remember their original announcement being that GDH and the Noon show would broadcast from the studio and it just doesn't seem likely. I could be wrong considering they've always said it would be 750 sqft which is not big enough for much of anything but still I expected more than this. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 What are the odds the anchors have to do their makeup in the building’s public bathroom with a key with a giant chain saying KHOU. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 364 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 *Cough* THEY ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM ONE OF THE LARGEST NATURAL DISASTERS ON RECORD I don't mean this to be callous, but - so what? To further expand, what does the storm have to do with this? This is a newly built studio, not something that was affected by the storm that they're trying to repair or rebuild. Furthermore, I'd say that the set they built in their temporary home looks pretty darn nice, particularly when you consider that it's a temporary set in a facility that is on "loan" to them. This suggest to me that their ability to do some nice work isn't affected by the storm. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 I don't mean this to be callous, but - so what? To further expand, what does the storm have to do with this? This is a newly built studio, not something that was affected by the storm that they're trying to repair or rebuild. I'm not sure if you know how money works but a business' supply of it is not infinite. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Furthermore, I'd say that the set they built in their temporary home looks pretty darn nice, particularly when you consider that it's a temporary set in a facility that is on "loan" to them. This suggest to me that their ability to do some nice work isn't affected by the storm. Much like the temporary home they're in, a lot of the equipment in that studio is on loan either from Houston Public Media or from others. That set was built with whatever could be scrounged up in a short time, and has slowly evolved as the station settled in. None of it was ever meant to follow them, however. It's mostly borrowed. I was told when I interviewed there once that what wasn't borrowed for the set and equipment (which was pretty little) will be donated to the University of Houston and Houston Public Media when they leave as just one of probably many sorts of thank you presents. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 Much like the temporary home they're in, a lot of the equipment in that studio is on loan either from Houston Public Media or from others. That set was built with whatever could be scrounged up in a short time, and has slowly evolved as the station settled in. None of it was ever meant to follow them, however. It's mostly borrowed. I was told when I interviewed there once that what wasn't borrowed for the set and equipment (which was pretty little) will be donated to the University of Houston and Houston Public Media when they leave as just one of probably many sorts of thank you presents. At this point, very little in that studio is borrowed from Houston Public Media. The set was custom built for that studio, the cameras were rescued from their old facility (they are the same ones being wheeled up to the second floor in all those behind the scenes videos from during the storm), and that big 3x3 video wall they got not long after they moved in is stuff you can easily buy off the shelf. They'll likely leave the set and lights behind, but that place will probably be mostly empty by the time they do their last broadcast from there. Anything that isn't on loan from other stations was bought new (i.e. computers, IT infrastructure), and there's a very good chance the bean counters will insist the new stuff goes with them when they're ready to move. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 At this point, very little in that studio is borrowed from Houston Public Media. The set was custom built for that studio, the cameras were rescued from their old facility (they are the same ones being wheeled up to the second floor in all those behind the scenes videos from during the storm), and that big 3x3 video wall they got not long after they moved in is stuff you can easily buy off the shelf. They'll likely leave the set and lights behind, but that place will probably be mostly empty by the time they do their last broadcast from there. Anything that isn't on loan from other stations was bought new (i.e. computers, IT infrastructure), and there's a very good chance the bean counters will insist the new stuff goes with them when they're ready to move. Are they still operating out of “KHOU North”. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 KHOU has a impressive setup. Look at these IGs. [MEDIA=instagram]BoMcu2tDJK0[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=instagram]BknoM1jFeKz[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=instagram]Bi8AO-Nl9eS[/MEDIA] I remember they were using TVUs exclusively. I wonder if they were able to make it so their live shots can use microwave. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Are they still operating out of “KHOU North”. Production of the newscasts moved into a trailer at Houston Public Media around the same time the new graphics debut, from what I've heard. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15887-khou-building-flooded/page/18/#findComment-214324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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