Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book

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4.16 Electronic Newsroom Systems

4.16.1 The Newsroom Revolution

During the late 1990s, television newsrooms took a radical change in not only the output they provided, but more importantly in the workflow used to produce news stories. Many of the changes had already been being brought about by the adoption of lightweight electronic camcorder packages, a compact electronic alternative to the 16 mm film package which had been the workhorse of television news acquisition for over a half a century. However, although the change to Electronic News Gathering (ENG) was very rapid, the material to be edited still required the use of cassette-based VTRs and also the journalist still relied on systems that did not marry the technological ...