The Other Half Of ABC TV3
The Other Half Of ABC TV3
Last week, I posted a photo of me at the ABC News anchor desk, the place Diane Sawyer sits. It is an L shaped desk with the long part of the L on her left in the opening few shots. I was sitting at the long L part of the desk.
As she delivers the news, this is what she sees in the other half of TV3.
On the left below, you see the short part of the L desk and beyond it is the set of ‘Real Biz’ with Rebecca Jarvis. This is a business headlines show mostly seen on the ABC News website, but I think it’s also a GMA insert.
There are four Ikegami robotic cameras in the studio which has half of the long wall (to our left) open so that cameras can move into the adjoining producers space (with windows to the outside) when Diane turns to deliver the news from the long side of the L. Either way she is shot, there are huge video walls behind her. On the right is part of the massive TV3 control room.
Soon, we’ll see that Brian Williams also reports from a studio with two sets at NBC.
There will be more from ABC in the coming days and weeks, but we would not have seen any of it without our friend Robert Franklin, an ABC News technical director. Bob has been with ABC since 1970 and few know more about it’s history than he. Below is Bob (left) and Doug Schmit, the technical manager on ‘Katie’.