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Working At Home Presents Issues for Morning Shows

"For all the planning"??

Where I work, there was literally one day of planning. We were setting up equipment, lighting, microphones, and testing it all using Talent's home Internet or via bonded cellular connections one day, and going live the next. Over the following two weeks, we've been able to refine the situation through adding different technology, changing shots, adjusting lighting, etc. Has it been clunky at the beginning? Sure, but viewers seem to appreciate it, and seem to be willing to forgive the clunky start.

Can't speak for all the other Networks, but I know of nobody who had plans in advance for this.

There's always going to be some cynical A-hole that thinks they know what goes on behind the scenes, who has a forum. 99% of the time, they don't know what they're writing about.
 
umfan said:
https://apnews.com/e725ede28939b74692b2b188adae21d8

Even with a lot of effort in planning, issues abound in setting up mini studios in the homes of morning show hosts.
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In less that they live totally by themselves, of course there is going to be issues. Like say family members, spouse, any kids the live at home, they might still have to get up earlier then the rest of the family members are used to, and doing things quietly without waking up anybody else. And say I don't know if too many of them, still has a home phone number, that nobody calls that number while they are still on the air. Or if they have pets, that aren't like fish that live in a bowl, and that can easily move about the home, like a dog or a cat, even if it a dog another issue would be making sure to find the time to get the dog out for a walk as long as they aren't on the air.
 
umfan said:
So what? I wasn't quoting the article, only paraphrasing what it was saying, and my depiction was accurate.
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In the overly-long puff piece article, there is nothing that seems to be a real "issue". The featured photograph and part of the article point out that a decorative pillow in the background looks bad. A fricking pillow!

There were inconveniences, the primary one was to put in a remote operated camera so that a cameraman did not have to go to the show member's home. But that is a logistics issue involving delivery, not ab "issue".

More accurately, I'd call all those things "details". Repositioning a pillow is hardly an "issue".

It's obvious that some newspapers, absent the normal street reporting, are "making news out of nothing at all". (My pardon to Air Supply for adapting their title...)
 
Indeed. An allegedly askew pillow is perhaps more meaningless a complaint than what an obsessive, boundary-challenged subset of viewers complain about on a daily basis, pandemic or no pandemic. The color clothing, the makeup, the speech patterns, the weight...et al. The fact that a few people in need of a hobby were irked about a pillow isn't "issues abounding."
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Indeed. An allegedly askew pillow is perhaps more meaningless a complaint than what an obsessive, boundary-challenged subset of viewers complain about on a daily basis, pandemic or no pandemic. The color clothing, the makeup, the speech patterns, the weight...et al. The fact that a few people in need of a hobby were irked about a pillow isn't "issues abounding."
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Maybe because it isn't one of the My Pillow-pillows?

One of the revelations we in the TV biz have discovered in this otherwise grim time; is that viewers are actually enjoying watching Anchors, Reporters and Talent working from their homes. It's humanizing them to viewers.

Sure, there are always going to be AP writers with nothing better to do but write nit-picky mountains out of mole hills, but you wouldn't believe the amount of E-mail where I work of viewers being sincerely complimentary of not only our efforts to keep the news on the air, but how it's motivating viewers to also stay at home or socially distance.
 
Kelly A said:
... but you wouldn't believe the amount of E-mail where I work of viewers being sincerely complimentary of not only our efforts to keep the news on the air, but how it's motivating viewers to also stay at home or socially distance.
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That is a good point. The humanizing of industry figures, whether national newscasters and commentators or local counterparts, is setting a good example. And it is also entertaining.

I find the cases where an anchor or weathercaster has their dog at their side to be particularly humanizing.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
The fact that a few people in need of a hobby were irked about a pillow isn't "issues abounding."
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I try hard to never be irked by a pillow.

Admittedly, when Mike Lindell pitches them incessantly, that emotion is hard to control.
 
Kelly A said:
Maybe because it isn't one of the My Pillow-pillows?

One of the revelations we in the TV biz have discovered in this otherwise grim time; is that viewers are actually enjoying watching Anchors, Reporters and Talent working from their homes. It's humanizing them to viewers.

Sure, there are always going to be AP writers with nothing better to do but write nit-picky mountains out of mole hills, but you wouldn't believe the amount of E-mail where I work of viewers being sincerely complimentary of not only our efforts to keep the news on the air, but how it's motivating viewers to also stay at home or socially distance.
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We don't want them to get too comfortable to where thy fall asleep when they are supposed to be on air? At some point this cornaviurs will be figure out, where hopefully more lives that have got it can be saved, but when that will be, your guess as good if not better then my guess.
 
staggmovie said:
SO what are you confused by, if everything I had said, I don;'t know how I can or even attempt to explain for your brain or you to understand
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Please, no insults.

You are responding to a post that was imitating being awakened... such as might happen if a home studio user fell asleep during a show.
 
staggmovie said:
We don't want them to get too comfortable to where thy fall asleep when they are supposed to be on air?
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Good point. We should make sure none of our Talent are sitting on a My Pillow while they're working from home. Wouldn't want them to miss one of their hits...
Ban all My Pillows!
 
Kelly A said:
Good point. We should make sure none of our Talent are sitting on a My Pillow while they're working from home. Wouldn't want them to miss one of their hits...
Ban all My Pillows!
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Would it be interesting to see somebody sleeping on the air, even since they are at home since they couldn't figure out how to make it work with their studios of having them 5 feet apart at least.
 
staggmovie said:
Would it be interesting to see somebody sleeping on the air, even since they are at home since they couldn't figure out how to make it work with their studios of having them 5 feet apart at least.
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They have a director in their ear keeping them away and telling them what to do
 
staggmovie said:
Youi got some obsession with my posts lately?
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Only when they are off track or contain mistaken information. And that is the same criteria both of your moderators use regarding all posts.

 
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