I hope I've chosen the right category for this thread. It concerns news broadcasts. It can be national, but it's most often local. But anyone across the nation can see it either on a network, or a local station.
It concerns a news show, when a story cuts to a reporter doing a "live" location shot. Here in my area, it happens on my local news. The main anchor cuts to a live shot of field-reporter so & so, holding a mike and preparing to speak. Usually, there seems to be a few seconds delay between the station signal and the remote unit they're reporting from. So what happens 9x out of 10, the station anchor says, "reporting live from the scene is Suzy Reporter ... now you've been down there all day Suzy, how are things looking at the moment?". Meanwhile, "Suzy" is listening to the anchor, but it's being delayed. So, we HEAR the anchor turn it over to her, but we SEE Suzy standing there stone-faced, until she hears her name. Then she starts nodding her head in agreement for about 10 seconds before saying anything. The problem is, there's been dead-silence for those 10 seconds, and all WE see is her standing there, nodding her head but not saying anything until the cue is finished in her ear. It's looks dumb, and it sounds even dumber. First of all, why do they have to nod their head. Doesn't she know (on the scene) that there's a delay??? Doesn't she assume that she's standing there nodding her head to "silence"? In case you're not sure, this drives me nuts. And this usually happens locally, when the distance between the station and the remote may only be a mile or two. I can clearly understand it, when it's network news, and the reporter is in France, or Iran for instance. But I would think even a local station would have better technology to ensure that there's either little to NO delay in signals, OR that when they KNOW there's a delay, that they don't make it painfully obvious by making us watch "Suzy Reporter" behaving like a mime while the delay catches up.
Anyway, I've seen this countless times, and it happens the same way EVERY time. How about in your town?
It concerns a news show, when a story cuts to a reporter doing a "live" location shot. Here in my area, it happens on my local news. The main anchor cuts to a live shot of field-reporter so & so, holding a mike and preparing to speak. Usually, there seems to be a few seconds delay between the station signal and the remote unit they're reporting from. So what happens 9x out of 10, the station anchor says, "reporting live from the scene is Suzy Reporter ... now you've been down there all day Suzy, how are things looking at the moment?". Meanwhile, "Suzy" is listening to the anchor, but it's being delayed. So, we HEAR the anchor turn it over to her, but we SEE Suzy standing there stone-faced, until she hears her name. Then she starts nodding her head in agreement for about 10 seconds before saying anything. The problem is, there's been dead-silence for those 10 seconds, and all WE see is her standing there, nodding her head but not saying anything until the cue is finished in her ear. It's looks dumb, and it sounds even dumber. First of all, why do they have to nod their head. Doesn't she know (on the scene) that there's a delay??? Doesn't she assume that she's standing there nodding her head to "silence"? In case you're not sure, this drives me nuts. And this usually happens locally, when the distance between the station and the remote may only be a mile or two. I can clearly understand it, when it's network news, and the reporter is in France, or Iran for instance. But I would think even a local station would have better technology to ensure that there's either little to NO delay in signals, OR that when they KNOW there's a delay, that they don't make it painfully obvious by making us watch "Suzy Reporter" behaving like a mime while the delay catches up.
Anyway, I've seen this countless times, and it happens the same way EVERY time. How about in your town?
