Here’s One For All The “Sparkys”

On July 4, 2014 - TV History

Here’s One For All The “Sparkys”

Do you have a favorite sign from your broadcast facility to share? If so, please do! I think this one was on the front of a quad VTR.

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19 Comments

  1. Don Cox July 5, 2014

    It’s almost never a fuse. Even if it is, there is an underlying problem.

  2. John Stevens July 5, 2014

    It’s only television, it isn’t brain surgery.

  3. David Wally July 5, 2014

  4. Alan Rosenfeld July 4, 2014

    Did tour a tv station once where most of the cameras and VTR’s had a tape “X” on them. Chief explained the “X” was where he tapped the offending piece of equipment with a hammer when it acted up…

  5. Matt Repino July 4, 2014

    “If you take it from the rack, put the motherf-kr back”
    Not one of ours, but from the radio world…!

  6. David Fredericks July 4, 2014

  7. Richard Esneault July 4, 2014

    Not broadcast specific, but in our Master Control/Video control room…”Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on our part.”

  8. Joshua Gear July 4, 2014

    We’ve got a solid dozen in our main edit bay: The edit bay was dedicated for our retired newscast editor, with a sign proclaiming his catch phrase: “Did you get that thing done yet??”

  9. Lisa J. Kassner July 4, 2014

    Sheese… it does not seem that long ago… yes the things we did to stay on the air… Swapping boards and cards … and yes this sign is appropriate… Some of us got to a place where we only worked on stuff… never fixing it… Because as soon as you declared something fixed… it had to work forever!!! When the boss would ask if this or that was fixed… I would say it is working… Yes, we worked on it and found this… etc…

  10. Ángel Andrés Osorno García July 4, 2014

    ha ha ha ha …. very funny…!

  11. Michael Sime July 4, 2014

    I put this on the doors of my equipment rooms…

  12. Frank Ferraro July 4, 2014

    If everything were only that simple! 🙂

  13. Tim Stepich July 4, 2014

    At the senior video console at WNEV, Boston – “Please turn off Harry after show”. Harry was the senior video op, and our shop steward. Great guy.

  14. Ian Bartlett July 4, 2014

    At the PEG channel I volunteer at, near a DVD dub station—-

    SP=1 hour
    LP=2 hours
    EP=4 hours
    SLP=don’t even think about it!

  15. Jo Bussell July 4, 2014

    Love it!

  16. Alan Gardner July 4, 2014

    No sign, but when at KEMO-TV Ch 20, San Francisco back in the late ’70s if the chroma key failed we all knew that certain spot on the “rack” to pound with a closed fist to make magic happen.

  17. Phil Savenick July 4, 2014

    I used to post a sign that said, “Life is Precious, Television is furniture”.

  18. Jan Burn July 4, 2014

    David, thought you’d LoVe this! :

  19. Harold Borth July 4, 2014

    I know the feeling!