NBC Station WNYT Improves News Production Efficiency With

WNYT

With the NBC Station WNYT Improves News Production Telemetrics Efficiency With Telemetrics Camera Robotics RCCP-1 control panel we can get to some NYT-TV, the NBC affiliate television director. This facilitates good collaboration shots quickly, which station licensed to Albany, New York, between the two during the live newscasts. has revamped its main news studio W Steven Robbins, Director of Operations and make our newscasts with robotic camera systems from Telemetrics. Digital Services at WNYT-TV and sister station move along more The new studio, which officially went on–air WNYA-TV, said the move to the Telemetrics smoothly. We’ve last Spring, was launched with a new set, on-air graphics, new LED strategically blocked lighting and additional cameras for the camera shots with more comprehensive news story much less camera telling and an improved on-air look. pedestal movement “We’re seeing more and more and it has worked out stations commit their news studios to remotely controlled cameras great for our directors because it allows them to do so and news staff. much more in terms of adding new production values to their newscasts,” said Michael Cuomo, Vice President of Telemetrics. “Management at WNYT-TV saw the value of refining its on-air look in the most cost-effective way and has enjoyed very positive results.” The station’s previous studio had three cameras on PT heads and fixed tripods, with a simple shot box controller and two manned cameras on manual pedestals. The new installation has robotics systems and control panel brings replaced those two pedestals with three more greater operational efficiency, a more consistent cameras on Telemetrics PT-LP-S5 Pan/Tilt on-air look and the power to set up and store heads (with Panasonic AG-HPX370 cameras, camera moves for instant recall. The latter saves Autoscript teleprompters and confidence significant time in between shows. monitors) and another on a Telemetrics EP6- “Camera robotics has helped us to be more 600 Televator® folding floor dolly that is moved consistent in our shots and have less on-air around the errors,” he said. “With the Telemetrics RCCP-1 studio as control panel we can get to some shots quickly, required for which make our newscasts move along more different news smoothly. We’ve strategically blocked the segments. camera shots with much less camera pedestal A Telemetrics movement and it has worked out great for our RCCP-1 directors and news staff.” Remote The Telemetrics system is now used regularly Camera to produce more than six hours of news content Control Panel each weekday and another four hours on the with Studio weekends. That’s in addition to several public Software was affairs and sports talk shows produced in the also added, studio. Sister station WNYA-TV also utilizes the which is studio for its 10:00 pm newscast. operated by the station’s “We like the reliability of the Telemetrics gear CG operator, and the fact that several different people can who sits right run the system and get the same great results,” next to the Robbins said. “We like robotic operations

I can’t say because it provides consistency enough about and forces the news department to think about what they want to do the Telemetrics before they do it.” engineering staff that The RCCP-1 panel now controls were on-site helping every pan/tilt head in the studio. us launch our new A unique counter-balancing studio. system on the Telemetrics PT- LP-S5 servo-controlled head enables quick, easy and accurate setup, even when a teleprompter, confidence monitor, and other components are mounted on the head. Multiple cameras can be easily configured with pan, tilt and pedestal parameters and accessed via a simple push of a button on the PT head, facilitating quick local setup, as well as maintenance and commissioning site visit he received from trouble shooting. In Telemetrics, which was critical to get the station addition, the ultra- on the air in a timely manner. precise mechanics provide smooth motion “I can’t say enough about the Telemetrics and an accuracy of engineering staff that were on-site helping us 0.016º, making the PT- launch our new studio,” he said. “When choosing LP-S5 ideal for virtual a camera robotics system the technology must set applications. do its job, but more importantly it has to have a Robbins also pointed company behind it that supports its equipment. I out the install give Telemetrics an “A” for that effort.”

About Telemetrics, Inc. Telemetrics, founded in 1973, revolutionized the robotic camera control industry with the introduction of robotic camera control over Triax. Today, Telemetrics is a pioneer of innovative solutions used in Studio, Legislative, Military, Corporate, Houses of Worship, Sports, and Education. Telemetrics offers the S5 line of Pan/Tilt heads, motorized columns with the Televator, ceiling or floor mounted TeleGlide track systems and expansive software control packages with the RCCP-1 platform. Telemetrics is committed to making the most reliable, durable, and dependable broadcast ecosystem in the world… products that can be built on for decades not just years.

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