Audio person during Hall of Shame segments

[Colonel Flagg]

Unfortunately, low wages are probably to blame. Production jobs in TV don't pay what they used to. You get what you pay for.

[SolarMax]

Is it really that difficult to pot up Rob Wolchek's mic while muting the anchors' mics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cOGRJmtRig

Every dang time the anchors toss to Rob, his voice is picked up by the anchors' mics, and then the audio person is late to Rob's mic.

Every. Single. Time.

With news studio automation, it really is "that difficult" to pot up a mike that's not been programmed to be live during that crossover. There is no "audio person," just a timeline and a director. Wolchek needs to be told to pause a beat before speaking.

Unfortunately, low wages are probably to blame. Production jobs in TV don't pay what they used to. You get what you pay for.

Wages are not the problem in this market. 'JBK and the other stations are union shops, NABET or IBEW, but the ranks of human-performed production jobs have been thinned.
Corporate invests in robots, the on-air product shows the result of them getting what they pay for.

[Editorcj]

It's all one person in the automated control room and that error would be a coding error programmed in before showtime. Fox2 has lots of audio errors and I'm not sure why but mics get clipped a lot.

Unintended consequence of automating the control rooms is that it is now hard to find people to fill TD slots because there is no longer a pool of technicians to draw from to move up to the TD position. The new blood has to sink or swim right out of college as a TD and that has become a thankless job.

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I don’t doubt what you all are saying, but why does it happen so consistently with this segment? When anchors toss to other reporters on the set it rarely happens.

Someone already answered this. Wolchek needs to wait a minute.