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It might be like a station I worked at put in a "new" studio. I was running my show out of the production room. The engineer came in a said the control room was ready and moved the cart racks. I picked up the log went into the "new" control room while a song played, potted up the production room on the new board (which was correctly labeled for a change). The engineer pulled several patch cords and that was it. I will bet a cup of coffee that the news casters got a best 6 hours of warning. Sometime departments do not communicate with each other.
 
You'll lose that cup of coffee. The anchors had been tweeting all week about how it was their "last Wednesday in Studio A" or whatever day it was.
 
oldvnewschool said:
The reason is that I thnk it's as historic in a lot of ways; similar to when stations went from b/w to color.
You would figure they would put their A teams respectivly for this occasion, at least that's how I feel.
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You think the average guy on the street is going to remember WHO got to sit at the new desk first? Aside from TV news junkies, probably no one. And a year or two from now they will get another new set, so big deal. (And Dwyer himself has been there for a while.)

Fox 17 HAD to debut their new set so that they would be a day ahead of channel 4 in doing likewise.

So other than from a historical sense, it really doesn't matter who got to sit at the desk first.
 
I may watch them now instead just because they don't say "HD" every 2 seconds. Smart move too. If we get something UL listed at work, the last thing we do is promote that. All that does is inform those that didn't know we just got it that it used to not be. Good for them for not brining attention to being last to be HD.
 
Fred Graham's book about Channel 2 is quite interesting...especially the part about the studio floor being built on a slant and the whole station being built on the site of an old mental hospital, how patients were buried there and that haunted the place. BTW the Dell Computer Plant on Murfreesboro Road is on the site of the old Central State Psychiatric Hospital and patients were buried there too!
 
I understand that is where the "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" campaign is buried, too. ::)
 
Since they've gone HD I've checked out 2's morning newscast a couple of times. There's lots of good interaction between Neil, Julie and Justin.
 
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