Animating Brokaw.(Quantel Clipbox video servers used to animate Tom Brokaw's backdrop on NBC Nightly News)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, May, 1999 by Anderson, Karen

'NBC Nightly News' upgrades with Quantel Clipbox To provide a visual backdrop for Tom Brokaw's "In Depth" segments, NBC Nightly News uses a Quantel Clipbox video server to send pre-produced animations from its editing and graphics suite on the ninth floor of "30 Rock" to a video wall in its third floor studio.

The Quantel video server has been in operation since November 1998 and is also used for playout-to-air for several other Nightly News segments, including the show's introduction. The Clipbox is controlled from a remote site, Room 3G, using a control panel from Flash Television Control Systems. "By controlling [the video server] with a Flash panel, it emulates a standard tape machine," says NBC Nightly News director Brett Holey. Before the...

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