Broadcast Production 101

Ten specialists, twenty live sources, one picture going out

A broadcast is a room full of people making one picture. Eight or ten specialists, each holding one job, sitting close enough to hear each other, turning twenty live sources into a single feed that somebody watches on a sofa four hundred miles away. Nobody in that room can do the job alone and nobody in it is watching the whole show except one person.

Inside: What Broadcast Production Is - The Signal Path - The Control Room & Its Roles - The Seats Around You - Comms - Directing & Calling the Show - Time - Graphics, Replay & Audio - Broadcast Audio - Loudness - Where Broadcast Happens & Putting It Together - Reference, Timing and the IP Plant - When It Goes Wrong - Holding a Seat.