{"id":3517,"date":"2006-01-31T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/01\/31\/behind-the-scenes-at-webcasting-central\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:38:02","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-webcasting-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/01\/31\/behind-the-scenes-at-webcasting-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at Webcasting Central"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all wondering what it was like to appear on a big-time live webcast, so I thought I&#8217;d give you a glimpse into a world rarely seen by outsiders: the Midland Reporter-Telegram&#8217;s studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that the MRT is a newspaper and so it hasn&#8217;t felt a great need to invest a lot of money in video technology, for obvious reasons. The &#8220;studio&#8221; itself is all the way in the back of the building and up a flight of stairs that opens into a medium-sized room that may well have once seen duty as a storeroom. Or the publisher&#8217;s office&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to say. Jimmy Patterson and his ace webguy, Jim Slusher have cleared out a smallish space for a couple of tables, a couple of chairs, a backdrop which rolls down on a length of PVC pipe, a couple of monitors, one computer and one tripod-mounted digicam. A microphone runs from the camera under the table and is taped to the edge in front of the webcastees. Here&#8217;s a photo of the setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/jimmy_studio.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of MRT's Webcasting setup\" style=\"width: 640px;\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy kept apologizing for the spareness of the setting but I thought it was less intimidating than a fancy, formal studio. Everything worked as intended and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s important. I was temporarily distracted by the monitor in front of us which I thought was supposed to show what was going out live, but it had a disconcerting lag in the video so I finally just ignored it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/patterson_slusher.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jim Slusher and Jimmy Patterson\" width=\"350\" height=\"289\" border=\"0\"><br>Jim Slusher and Jimmy Patterson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they really need now is some theme music. I suggested that they have a contest to see who could compose the best theme song. I know a few Gazette readers who are more than talented enough to come up with something to fit the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insider&#8217;s look at the hi-tech, low-style world of webcasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,89,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-msm-journalism-etc","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14269,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/14269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}