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[no dialogue].
(female speaker). Okay so this is the WEIU TV
newsroom, where we produce our half hour, daily newscast.
One of the main systems that keeps us running here is iNews.
We do a lot of content in here, it's where we write all of our
stories that are then shown over our newscast.
So we use this program called iNews, what you're seeing right
now is basically a run-down of what the show would look like.
Normally there would be stories in here that we would be running
during the day and so it's where we type all of our content.
The red parts are just basically directions for those working
the show in the control room.
The black parts are where you actually write the story,
that's what the anchor can read over the teleprompter.
So, this is connected to the control room, to edit basically.
They're all connected through this Avid system.
We also use Avid editing technology, so when people are
editing they can actually see the scripts so that they can
make sure the video matches the story.
We're also connected with the server to a
service called the associated press wire.
And basically what this does is it allows us to get stories from
the Associated Press who provides content to several
thousands of news outlets around the world actually.
And they have reporters who go out all over the place and cover
stories and then they're sent out to people
who subscribe to the AP.
So we subscribe and we pay to use these stories in our
newscast, we get a lot of story ideas from here.
Sometimes we'll just take an AP story and re-write it
for our newscast and because we pay for it,
we have the right to do that.
So again this is connected to everything in the whole WEIU
system and it's kind of "the juice" I guess, behind the
news cast where we put all of our content that
you see on the show.
We also use these police scanners right here,
we listen to them throughout the day.
We can hear police in the 16 counties that we cover going
over their radios and saying "Oh there's
been a crash in this area" or "there's been a house fire!"
Then we sometimes will send reporters, depending
on what we hear, out to cover the story.
That's how we, a couple years ago 2007 it was, there was a
situation in Arcola where it was actually a hostage situation and
the way that WEIU ended up being first on the scene was
we heard it over the police scanners.
It was hard to believe but we sent reporters out there
and that's how we got that story.
So, that's pretty much it in here, I think.
(male speaker). So this is PCD, this is where
everything's, the production end of the newswatch is done.
Right over here, this is where the producers sit.
The producer, like you saw Barbara show, they put
everything in iNews, they stack the show meaning
they put what stories they want in the order they want
and then they time the show.
Everything's really time-oriented here at News
Watch, everything has to hit certain times and the producers'
job is making sure we're on those times.
Next to the producer, is where our news director sits.
She's pretty much just overseeing everything
and taking notes on the operation as a whole.
Now all of these seats would be filled
during a regular production.
Starting over here, this is the teleprompter, this person is in
charge of scrolling the words so that the anchors can read them
and read them to the viewers off of our screen.
Here, this is what's called air speed.
This is where we record the show so that we can archive,
we archive every show that we've ever done
and that's what's done on this computer.
Over here, this is deco, this is what's
called lower-third in graphics.
The bottom of your screen you've probably seen names or locations
of places, that's all done here.
Also the little boxes above anchors' heads,
those are also made here.
So everything dealing with graphics is made by the deco
operator and run by the deco operator.
This is the audio-board, this deals with everything
in audio for the show.
So as far as mics are on, video-run and music, this is all
done by one person, the audio operator.
Over here, the two most important jobs in PCD.
Right here, first, this is the technical director.
The technical director is punching up on the show
and all these buttons, you can see, that's their job.
Making sure everything is looking right on the screen,
they punch everything, they take all of the graphics, all the
videos and all the slates, that's all run by this person.
The person usually giving them direction usually sits here,
that's the director.
They wear this head-set, they communicate with everybody in
here as well as everybody in the studio as well
and they're running the show pretty much.
They're giving everybody directions, they give all the
cues for the show and everybody's
following their orders here in PCD.
Alright, so here we are in the studio and this is our set,
usually on a night you'll see two anchors,
we have two news anchors.
To the right of them would be a weather anchor coming from the
weather wall to sit down here and then to my right, would be
the sports anchor and they interact with the anchors
when they are done with their segments and anchor at the end.
Alright this is our weather station,
this is where the weather anchor sits.
They come in and instead of being in the newsroom,
they do all of their research here, they get all of
their slides together here and this is where we actually
present from the 5:30 show.
Everything from this computer is run into PCD and then eventually
over here to the wall and that's how we see ourselves on camera.
Over here, this is the green wall and this is what we see.
This is called chromakey, the color, and what it does is it
takes this color, transforms it to whatever we have on that
computer and that's how you get the maps to show up on here.
We have two different monitors that we look at when we're
broadcasting, then we can see ourselves in the camera as well
and that's how we execute the broadcast.
So we have really nice cameras here, this is a multi-million
dollar facility, last spring we actually switched to HD.
We're one of the few colleges in the nation that has an entirely
HD newscast.
So as you can tell, these are very expensive cameras and
really this entire facility is just top of the line and you
don't really get this experience at any other college.
So when the anchors sit here, they have two things
that they need to put on.
First the mic, so the viewers can hear what you're saying, the
second is an IFB, this little piece goes into your ear and we
can get contacted from PCD so that the director or the
producer can tell you certain things in your ear.
If there's breaking news, they can tell you that.
They also use this for time cues or if you're reading too fast or
too slowly, you can hear it from this.
Put this in your ear and they can communicate with you.
So when the anchors are here, they're looking at these cameras
and the cameras usually having words scrolling so the anchor
sitting here just simply reads those words into the camera.
(male voice over). What are the little monitors
down there in front of you?
(male speaker). Sure, with all of these monitors
turned on, this is just another way to see what' going on.
Both of these monitors would be the teleprompters, just like
what's in the camera they'll having scrolling words.
These other three monitors, the middle and then the two sides,
are simply what we're broadcasting at that time.
The reason for this is when the weather anchor sits over here,
they can look there and see their numbers still or can see
their maps still until they're taken back on camera.
And the prompters are here for the anchors instead of looking
at the camera all of the time, they can look down, read a
little bit off of here then get back and engage
with the viewer again.
And the same thing for sports.
Sports over here can see what video is rolling if they need to
do play-by-play or something of that nature.