Very few journalists see the broadcast outside of the newsroom. Yesterday I saw the other side: broadcast. KOMU-TV station was a great host to me and the SJI class giving us a tour of their newsroom, control room, and studio.
Yesterday I was able to see my first live news show from the control room and the studio. And they were two different ways to see the show.
From the control room, I got to see how hectic it can be when things don’t go as planned. Two minutes before the 6 p.m. news broadcast, one of the cameras was on the wrong highway. It was supposed to be showing traffic and you could her anxiety in her voice communicating to the camera man and floor director to make it aware. Fortunately, it did not implode and that was the only mishap in the broadcast.
At the first commercial break, we swapped positions and we had an opportunity to see the broadcast in the studio. That was vastly different than what I thought. That was because I wasn’t exactly sure how a studio looked.
First of all, KOMU has an extraordinary studio. It looked unbelievable and was it was really cool to see how everything ran from cues, to watching the floor director, to seeing how a weather report was done. At the conclusion of the newscast, I had the opportunity to even snap a picture at the sports desk.
This was an awesome opportunity because I had the chance to see what the broadcast side of journalism is and the behind the scenes things that happens. Doing this has given me a different outlook on broadcast and maybe want to do some broadcast things as well as writing.
-Wynston Wilcox
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