Television Studio
The television studio is large enough to divide into two studios. The studio is a teaching space and also a working studio, with plenty of room to stage productions. In the Spring of 2015, we installed a professional news set donated by KMOV-TV in St. Louis, MO.
The TV studio converted to digital in 2003 and began the transition to HDTV in 2013. Major components included three Hitachi Z-HD5000 studio cameras capable of both 4 x 3 and 16 x 9 aspect ratios, as well as 480i (Standard Definition), and 1080i (High Definition) outputs. Each camera features TelePrompTers mounted on them for reading scripts. A Ross Carbonite 2M Multimedia production switcher with two ME banks of digital effects, an Imagine Communications Platinum MX digital router, a Chyron Lex 3.1 two-channel output character generator with Lyric software, a four-channel Avid Airspeed 5500 video server, a Mackie SRM 450 audio console, a TVQ Wincue teleprompter system, a Clearcom intercom system, and in addition to existing S-VHS, Mini-DV and DVC-Pro recording decks, two DVC Pro-50 decks, one Betacam deck and two DVD-RW decks. In addition, the production control room features two 65-inch multi-viewer monitors and master control is equipped with an additional router station, digital waveform monitor and vectorscope, and sync generator.
The studio is equipped with an ETC digital lighting board with a full complement of 96 grid lighting dimmers. There are also special features for lighting effects. There are 96 electrical drops for lights. In addition, there are two large floor lights, additional portable tripods, C-stands, reflector panels and a wide variety of scrims and colored gels, which are used frequently in production and performance classes. There are 12 audio outlets mounted around the studio walls to connect microphones. The studio also features 20 set backgrounds, seamless paper, portrait backdrops and other prop pieces located in storage areas. The TV studio floor and adjoining Production Control Room are designed for handicapped access.
