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An Improved Video System For Television Studios
BY NEWLAND F. SMITH WOR-TV, NEW YORK
SUMMARY: A new video system and a new arrangement of television studios have been devised at WOR-TV. This system adds considerably to the flexibility of a television station by permitting combination of any of the station's cameras in any combination in several studios for programming. This is accomplished by using a separate "camera control center" where all camera control operations are carried out. Individual studio control rooms provide for program direction and switching of the cameras for a particular program.
IN DESIGNING a television studio system at the present time the primary consideration is to make the whole system as flexible as possible — first, because television broadcasting is still a relatively new art, and therefore constantly changing as new ideas are developed ; and second, because program requirements for television shows vary constantly from day to day, each program making different demands on the technical facilities.
Purposing to make a television studio as adaptable as possible in all its phases, the Television Engineering Department of WOR proceeded with the design of its new television studios, located on West 67th Street in New York. The arrangement of the studios in this building incorporate several novel ideas, of which we shall discuss here the separation of the camera control operators from the program direction and switching center.
The camera control operators for all studios are centrally located in one room called the Camera Control Center. Thus the program director is not distracted by having to look over the shoulders of the technical operating personnel or by any confusion arising from their being in the same room.
In this system the program director has directly in front of him, at his console, monitors on each of his local cameras, plus two preview monitors for switching up the cameras from some other source which might be cut in to his program. In addition, the switching control panel is located on this desk for the video switcher who sits beside the program director.
By centrally locating all camera control units in one place, further
PRESENTED: October 16, 1950, at the SMPTE Convention in Lake Placid, N. Y. NOVEMBER 1950 JOURNAL OF THE SMPTE VOLUME 55 477