How COVID Changed TV Production Forever

Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of maintaining news and dialogue programs during the day and night and another topical series on the air during the first cruel months of the roaming epidemic.

We did not know that after that, but March 2020 represents a huge turning point for television. Survival orders at home and masks and antigen tests-looks far and not very far at the same time. The story of how Covid has helped ship broadcasting works – and broadcast wars – in recent years.

But another big television story was revealed during the first months of the closure that was not interested. The first few weeks of the epidemic motivated more innovation of pants seat in broadcasting and engineering operations than Sayyid Caesar and Milton Pearl in the early fifties. In the media and entertainment, the ethics presented to the performance are real. The last thing wanted TV positives to do is the American Dead Air service. The times were difficult enough. By the end of 2020, the death of Kovid in the United States alone reached 400,000.

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Social social conditions have imposed forced producers, crew members and technicians to create virtual control rooms while flying. They had to know how to re -create networks for communications and video tools within days. They have requested a large group of Amazon digital video equipment to collect home offices in an anchor box. The talk shows quickly moved to accumulate screens to create virtual studio fans.

I wanted to deal with the great stampede story in the early months for several years. I had an honor Be a fly on the wall in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in June 2021 When Colbert returned to photography with live audiences at the Ed Sullivan Theater. In those interviews, it became clear how much Derring-du had and experimenting behind the scenes at a time when production employees were widely.

I knew that there were great stories there, but I didn’t know how much quality I started to meet the ten sources that you would hear in this episode. Share the stories that acquired this period preserved with moments of humor and moments of collapses that involve both Tykes, and some sorrow moments. In the end, what changes really concern? What are the innovations behind the crisis? We are studying a permanent legacy of solutions dating back to the era of the epidemic.

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The most prominent episode:

Davis: “I remember the night that has become real for us, and I canceled the American Professional League a game, and it was just a moment no less than anything at all … I was about about 25 years old, and I only remember sending text messages to me and they were like,“ Wait, no, cannot happen … ”

Wilder: “It was like defending the area. We were just trying to get people [equipment] We tried to look at where people live. I have a news photographer who lives in New Jersey and a broadcaster living in New Jersey. Marriage to this team together. I have a news photographer living in Long Island and anchor who lives in Long Island. So, this is a team. Schester, Contecticut, and so on. And so we started. “

Dokoupil: “I tried to convince myself that I am like a gay talese – which I previously met – who used to put a suit to walk from the upper floor of his brown stone to the basement to go to work as a writer. It was like what I did. Very incomplete with water survival, let’s invite them – we will not say cockroaches – crawl from drainage on a night.

Burj: “For 15 hours, they had to prepare a full -time control room and offer for the next day. Under normal circumstances, you may give a team like this week, perhaps two, to do so. They had literally at night.”

Thomas: “New York City was a ghost city. It looked like one of those films that you wake up while wandering around the streets, and the place that is usually loudly without life. It was in fact exactly like this.”

Dinan: “It was interesting how quickly people adapt. They only found ways to overcome issues and work on problems and achieve something. I look back at that time as a very innovative time for an industry that did not work this way. No one had suffered anything like this. So it was completely new.”

Courtz: “There were conversations [about postponing the launch of ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’]But they were closed very quickly. We are all collectively – CBS executives, and I, and all the great people working here – this collective feeling was only that we are doing this while we focus, and the world may need this bright spot now, and we hope to be that. This was somewhat collectively what we all felt. It was not really loudly. This was not the task of Raha’s great. This was just a pledge and our feeling together – we are doing this, and we will see everyone in September. “

Swink: “We photographed Katie Perry in the backyard of her singing her new song,“ Duvies ”. I would like to claim that it was very great that we were forced to innovate in that because we were seeing a very famous pop star brings us a new song in a different environment. Production was not the usual stage. So in some cases, innovations forced some wonderful TVs.”

Di Bona: “The influential piece is that we kept people working and it was a very difficult time. But we had a job, and we hope to keep America laughing. And you know, this is our job.”

(In the picture: Top roas – Vin Di Bona, Tony Dokoupil, Simone Swink, Shawna Thomas, Scott Wilder.

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