What happens when AV nerds grow up...Dolby Surround Monitor Closed caption monitor Stormtracker monitor Ch. 22.3 Aircheck monitors Aircheck VCRs Utah router panel Framesync 2 monitor Framesync 1 and Leitch router Framesync 2 and Leitch router Chyron MAX Nonfunctional audio meters Framesync 3 and Utah Scientific router Framesync 4 and router Waveform monitor Ch. A - off air (22.1) Ch. B - line out (22.1) Clearcom Main off-air audio monitor Bypass routers Top is Digital Bottom is Analog Chyron Max Monitors (top to bottom) Time Delay Router Digital audio encoder control HD Master control switcher Leitch Logo Inserter Analog Clock CBS Timing monitor More monitors Back-up Sundance Air station Tektronix Master control switcher Digital audio monitor SD/HD monitor (22.1) currently an infomercial Digital Clock Analog Monitor Ch. 22 currently an infomercial Analog Audio Monitors 22.1 EAS Sundance Automation control panel Primary Sundance Air station Digital Recievers 22.3 22.2 22.1 (HD) 22.2 digital monitor 22.2 audio monitor/line out viceo 22.2 video monitors 22.2 EAS 22.2 Master control switcher Calendar Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 Analog ch 22 frequency deviation monitor VTR1 monitor VTR2 Monitor VTR1 VTR2 22.2 logo/id inserter Various computers Analog off-air recievers Distribution amps VTR3 monitor VTR3 VTR4 Currently playing infomercial on Ch. 22 and 22.1 Time Squeeze remote panel More router panels Me! FCC Log for WSBT Off air monitor speaker Speaker for voice announcements from CBS New York Yes, it DOES say ANOTHER vertically challenged chair! 
Busy master control room at the former WSBT Broadcast Center in South Bend...
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This master control room began operations in 1954, and was retired late 2008. The facility is currently being renovated for their new tenant, WNIT Television (PBS). Playing on 22.1 is a 'Walk Fit Orthotics' infomerical Playing on 22.2 is the second tape of 'Silence of the Lambs' If you view the full size image and look at the clock, you can see the second hand motion - this was a 2 second exposure, if I recall. That's why all of the monitors are over-exposed Unique trivia concerning this WSBT broadcast center, and this room in specific... This facility was designed by the same architects as CBS Studio City in Burbank, CA. If you've ever seen 'Good Night and Good Luck', this control room and studio configuration is, or at least when built in 1954, was nearly identical to the one in the movie. The racks of equipment on the left are in front of the 40' long set of windows looking down in to the studio from this control room, currently Master Control, but it built as the studio control room. Not seen in the photo are the rest of the equipment racks in the room behind the camera - the 'rack room'. At a rough guess I'd say 50+ racks filled with routers, switchers, frame syncs, distribution amps, not to mention the satellite equipment, audio routers, studio transmitter links and such for 4 radio stations. And there's the telecine room in the basement, with the DirecTV uplink and the 120KVA UPS, and the ProFile video servers.... Comments
fullmoonshadow says:gud shot of nicely equipted MCR...wats the
name of the channel using this mcr????thanx
for sharing...
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That IS busy, DSmous! Quite a control center. Love all the notes.
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