Ntropolis 593 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 WMBF has pulled off the wraps of their Devlin Design Group set to the public eye. http://www.wmbfnews.com/global/Story.asp?s=8734774 One of the most amazing small market sets I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 How come DMA 103 has nicer stuff than DMA 34? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thafernykid 2 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Wow. This is very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Sadly they got those robotic camera that are stationary and can't move around. I never understood why get those. But w/e. Otherwise it is amazing set!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProButtonPusher 230 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 i may be mistaken, but those cameras don't look to be robotic (we use the same tripods at work) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliotJones 52 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Yeah, they're defiantly not robotic. That's good, though...robots replace jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Going off of this picture, those are standard manually operated camera pedestals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Not a great set, but nice nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Here's an article from Today's B&C Cover Story entitled "Birth of a Station". It includes video of folks building the new set and a brief interview from VP & GM of WMBF, Ted Fortenberry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 ok. Those look like the camera we got over in Studio 5. they are in a set place but can rotate left and right, adjust their height, and look up and down but they stay where they are on the ground. Thank god they have real people behind the cameras!! The only station that still uses real people behind the cameras is WGN. WFLD just switch over to robotics a couple of months ago. And NBC 5 is even worse with their Ignite control room :-p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 252 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 And NBC 5 is even worse with their Ignite control room :-p WMAQ, along with all of the other NBC O&Os that make use of an automated production system, uses Ross OverDrive and not Grass Valley Ignite. For someone who claims to work at WMAQ, that's something you should already know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliotJones 52 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 ok. Those look like the camera we got over in Studio 5. they are in a set place but can rotate left and right, adjust their height, and look up and down but they stay where they are on the ground. Thank god they have real people behind the cameras!! The only station that still uses real people behind the cameras is WGN. WFLD just switch over to robotics a couple of months ago. And NBC 5 is even worse with their Ignite control room :-p Capitan Dylan Oakes, SS Failboat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 ok. Those look like the camera we got over in Studio 5. they are in a set place but can rotate left and right, adjust their height, and look up and down but they stay where they are on the ground. Thank god they have real people behind the cameras!! The only station that still uses real people behind the cameras is WGN. WFLD just switch over to robotics a couple of months ago. And NBC 5 is even worse with their Ignite control room :-p whut? I'm sorry, I don't understand what your getting at. Are you saying WMBF's manual heads and pedestals look like WMAQ's robotic heads and manual pedestals, or that the camera unit itself look like WMAQ's? It's 3:30 and I'm tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 whut? I'm sorry, I don't understand what your getting at. Are you saying WMBF's manual heads and pedestals look like WMAQ's robotic heads and manual pedestals, or that the camera unit itself look like WMAQ's? It's 3:30 and I'm tired. We Have some cheap robotics over in studio 5. They aren't like what WLS has. If you know what I'm talking about. They dont have the big base that allows them to move around. Our cameras are stationary but are robotic. We never move the pedestals. Over in the Tower we have the full robotics going where the cameras move around an all that. And I'm not 100% sure what type of control room we are running but I know it is not Ross as our set up looks nothing like any of the other Ross Control rooms I have seen. It's weird. We have someone that codes the show and "directs." We have someone that TDs and actually progresses the show within the computer. We have an audio person and then a producer. We aren't running the one person show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliotJones 52 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Nice ninja edit which just said you used Ignite... “We've launched systems in nine of the top 10 markets in North America,” says Ross Video’s Brad Rochon. “We have around 75 systems on air right now, including WMAQ in Chicago, KXAS in Dallas, KDTV and KRON in San Francisco, KNTV in San Jose, and we're launching at KNBC in Los Angeles in a few weeks.” http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/06/05/daily.3/ It's on air already. Nice try, I'll give this a 4/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Nice ninja edit which just said you used Ignite... “We've launched systems in nine of the top 10 markets in North America,” says Ross Video’s Brad Rochon. “We have around 75 systems on air right now, including WMAQ in Chicago, KXAS in Dallas, KDTV and KRON in San Francisco, KNTV in San Jose, and we're launching at KNBC in Los Angeles in a few weeks.” http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/06/05/daily.3/ It's on air already. Nice try, I'll give this a 4/10. Ok. We are running Ross but why are we running it unlike all the other stations. Everyone else running it seems to have 1 or 2 people. We have 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliotJones 52 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 But you just said you were running Ignite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 But you just said you were running Ignite? Honestly I didn't know there was anything automation wise other than Ignite. But still why do we have more people on the control room staff than other station, some of which operate a show with one person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaskanews 108 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Honestly I didn't know there was anything automation wise other than Ignite. But still why do we have more people on the control room staff than other station, some of which operate a show with one person. That's a call the station makes, KTUU does the same thing, they aren't comfortable letting a computer run the entire broadcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagosNewsChannel 0 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 That's a call the station makes, KTUU does the same thing, they aren't comfortable letting a computer run the entire broadcast Ah. I think its better when there are more people on a payroll than stupid computers taking jobs. I'd much rather have a TD hitting the buttons on the switcher and not a damn keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 So I guess Ignite is now a genericized trademark for automated production? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 WRTV is getting Ignite this fall, they going from Parkervision. http://rtv6blogs.com/rtv6_6newshd/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evwalker09 2 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Does anyone have an open for WMBF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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