Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book

Original document by J T P RobinsonMajor revision by WJ Leathem

5.1 Outside Broadcast Vehicles and Mobile Control Rooms

 

 

5.1.1 Evolution of OB Vehicles and Mobile Control Rooms

Bringing outdoor events into the living room of the viewer is becoming more and more common. In order to record these events, be they sport, a concert or an important national event or ceremony, there is more and more reliance on the use of the outside broadcast or OB vehicle. Where these vehicles were once small control rooms on wheels, the move has been to build ‘Super Vehicles’ which are equipped for multi-camera/multirecording situations. The design and construction of these vehicles requires a considerable concentration of effort from a group of designers, each ...