It appears 2008 will be the year that 3 local station will finally turn the HD faucet on in this market.
With the HD transition though some jobs will get chopped. According to one of our regular readers, Brandon who had a chance to visit NBC6 recently and had a chat with Bob Mayer, by March WTVJ should have completed their HD overhaul. The station recently added new cameras that will be controlled from the control room, as well as automating the newscast – things like microphone on/off, camera positions, graphics etc… will be done by computer which will result a lot of jobs getting cut. Brandon says when he was there they are already rehearsing with the new system.
I get the feeling with all these HD news recently we’re bound to have at least one local station with an HD newscast in time for the May sweeps hype.
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