A television studio , also called a television production studio , is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production . The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the special requirements of television production. A professional television studio generally has several rooms, which are kept separate for noise and practicality reasons. These rooms are connected via ' talkback ' or an intercom , and personnel will be divided among these workplaces.
10-464: In broadcast facilities and television studios , a central apparatus room ( CAR , pronounced "C-A-R"), central machine room , or central equipment room ( CER ), or central technical area ( CTA ), or rack room is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located. Some broadcast facilities have several of these rooms. It should be air-conditioned, however low-noise specifications such as acoustical treatments are optional. Equipment
20-399: Is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people). When the input information that is supplied has an electrical signal the display is called an electronic display . Common applications for electronic visual displays are television sets or computer monitors . These are
30-576: Is connected either directly with an attached foldout monitor, keyboard and mouse or remotely via KVM switch , SSH , VNC , RS-232 or remote desktop . These rooms contain broadcast and broadcast IT mission critical gear necessary to broadcast and television operations. CARs usually house audio routers , video routers , video servers , compressors and multiplexers that utilize broadcast automation systems with broadcast programming applications to playout television programs . They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment, through which all
40-525: Is distinct from a PCR in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated. A transmission control room (TCR) is usually smaller in size and is a scaled-down version of centralcasting . The master control room in a US television station is the place where the on-air signal is controlled. It may include controls to playout pre-recorded television programs and television commercials , switch local or television network feeds, record satellite feeds and monitor
50-485: The production control room (PCR). It also makes sure that coax cable , SDI cable , fibre-optic cable or other wire lengths and installation requirements keep within manageable lengths, since most high-quality wiring runs only between devices in this room. This can include the actual circuitry and connections between: Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks . Master control
60-419: The following characteristics and installations: While a production is in progress, people composing a television crew work on the studio floor. The production control room is the place in a television studio in which the composition of the outgoing program takes place. The production control room is occasionally also called a studio control room (SCR) or a "gallery" – the latter name comes from
70-454: The operations are monitored by the transmission engineer, without disturbing the studio recordings. CER may also house analog and digital TV transmission systems, satellite up-link systems, digital processing synchronizers, video patch panels, and audio patch panels, including video monitors. Television studio The studio floor is the actual stage on which the actions that will be recorded and viewed take place. A typical studio floor has
80-548: The original placement of the director on an ornately carved bridge spanning the BBC 's first studio at Alexandra Palace , which was once referred to as like a minstrels' gallery . The vast majority of devices in a PCR are interfaces for rack-mounted equipment that is located in the Central Apparatus Room (CAR). The central apparatus room (CAR) houses equipment that is too noisy or runs too hot to be located in
90-707: The technologies used to create the various displays in use today. Some displays can show only digits or alphanumeric characters. They are called segment displays , because they are composed of several segments that switch on and off to give appearance of desired glyph . The segments are usually single LEDs or liquid crystals . They are mostly used in digital watches and pocket calculators . Common types are seven-segment displays which are used for numerals only, and alphanumeric fourteen-segment displays and sixteen-segment displays which can display numerals and Roman alphabet letters. Cathode-ray tubes were also formerly widely used. 2-dimensional displays that cover
100-501: The transmitter(s), or these items may be in an adjacent equipment rack room. If the program is broadcast live, the signal goes from the PCR to MCR and then out to the transmitter. A television studio usually has other rooms with no technical requirements beyond video monitors and studio monitors for audio. Among them are: [REDACTED] Media related to Television studios at Wikimedia Commons Video monitor A display device
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