1. How a News Channel Works
Contemporary World Media
2. How a News Channel Works
• TV news is often written by someone other than
the person reading it.
• Is Anchor a Journalist??????
• TV news relies on visual images and very short
sound bites and stories are rarely very long or in
depth.
• Newspapers have the "luxury" of space, so that
articles can go deeper and give much more
information.
• Where do you think is more impact? Print or
Electronic? Discussion Point.
3. Are Anchors Journalists
• 1. Knowledge base: An understanding of issues, names,
geography, history and the ability to put all of these in
perspective for viewers. It comes from the journalist’s
commitment to being a student of the news.
• 2. Ability to process new information: Sorting, organizing,
prioritizing and retaining massive amounts of incoming
data.
• 3. Ethical compass: Sensitivity to ethical land mines that
often litter the field of live breaking news — unconfirmed
information, graphic video, words that potentially panic,
endanger public safety or security or words that add pain to
already traumatized victims and those who care about
them.
4. Are Anchors Journalists
• 4. Command of the language: Dead-on
grammar, syntax, pronunciation, tone and storytelling — no matter
how stressed or tired the anchor or reporter may be.
• 5. Interviewing finesse: An instinct for what people need and want
to know, for what elements are missing from the story, and the
ability to draw information by skillful, informed questioning and by
listening.
• 6. Mastery of multitasking: The ability to simultaneously: take in a
producer’s instructions via an earpiece while scanning new
information from computer messages, texts or Twitter; listen to
what other reporters on the team are sharing and interviewees are
adding; monitor incoming video — and yes, live-tweet info to
people who have come to expect information in multiple formats.
• 7. Acute sense of timing: The ability to condense or expand one’s
speech on demand, to sense when a story needs refreshing or
recapping, to know without even looking at a clock how many
words are needed to fill the minute while awaiting a satellite
window, live feed or interviewee.
5. Desks
• Main Desk
• Sport Desk
• Business Desk
• City Desk
• Assignment Desk
7. Difference Between Newspaper and
News Channel
• If you miss something on TV, it is gone. Is that
really the case???
• A newspaper can be picked up and read at your
leisure.
TV is more "instant".
• If there's a breaking story, your TV program may
be interrupted with a news flash. To read all
about it, you'll have to wait for the next edition of
the newspaper.
• Unfortunately, newspapers are folding as more
and more people turn to television and/ or the
internet for their information.
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9. The Studio
• The studios and studio facility areas are an
important part of any television station. It is
where programs are recorded.
• Each studio has at least three cameras
recording the studio action from different
angles, so that the Program Director can
switch between shots as the creative aspects
of the program demand
10. The Studio
• On the studio floor the person in charge is the
Floor Manager, who is responsible for ensuring
that the Camera Operators, the Audio People
who operate the microphones, and the Lighting
and Stage Crew all follow the Program Director’s
instructions.
• The Floor Manager is the link between the
Director and every other person in the studio.
He/she is always in touch with the Director by
means of headphones with inbuilt microphone,
and provides the signals or ‘cues’ for actors and
presenters.
11. The Studio
• Studio facilities include the make-up and
wardrobe area, where performers are
prepared for their on-air appearance. There is
also a graphic arts department where station
and program logos and material such as weather
maps and sporting results are produced by
graphic artists using specialised software.
12. Studio Control Room
• The program is put together in the Studio
Control Room, which is usually alongside the
studio with windows looking into it.
• In the Studio Control Room the pictures from
the different cameras are mixed and
interchanged according to the director’s
instructions, and material from other sources
such as videotape or outside broadcasts is also
inserted.
13. The OB Van
• Many television programs, especially sports and
concerts, are transmitted live or pre-recorded
from venues away from the station’s own studios.
• These programs are made possible by the use of
Outside Broadcast (or OB) Vans which are really
studio control rooms on wheels. The picture and
sound signal from the OB van can be transmitted
back to the TV station by a microwave radio link,
by satellite or by fibre optic circuit.
14. Video Post Production
• The centre of a TV station’s daily operations is
the video post-production department.
Typically this is divided into an ‘on-air’ area
and a number of rooms called edit suites.
• Most programs are pre-recorded in bits and
pieces, either in a studio or on location. These
programs are finally put together in an edit
suite.
15. The People Behind the Scenes
• Wardrobe Department.
• Makeup Artists
• Writers
• Researchers – Why Researchers???
