The heart of WCTV’s production facility is
 the Studio and Control Room. In this area,
 the production sessions for WCTV’s “live”
 and “live-to-tape” programs take place.
 The WCTV Control Room is exactly what
 its name implies: it is the room in which
 the crew controls the action in the studio.
 All of the source devices in the two rooms
 (microphones, cameras, tape decks, etc)
 are connected to the control room. It is
 here that those sources are combined to
 make the final program.

 In this picture, you see three of the most important components
 used in a “live” or “live-to-tape” studio production:
   -On top is the main program monitor, that allows the director
       to see exactly how the program is coming out. This monitor
       also shows our program channels on the cable system.
   -In the middle are three smaller monitors (mounted side-by-side)
       which are connected to our three main studio cameras. This
       allows the director to see how the camera shots look and
       whether or not further adjustments are needed before those
       shots is taken to air.
   -The bottom unit is the video switcher, which allows the operator
       to switch between all the video sources available in the studio
       and control room, such as cameras, videotape, and more.

 The middle of the console is where most of our tape
 equipment is kept. The light deck on the left is used
 to record the programs we produce in the studio.
 The dark deck on the right is used to play back any
 pre-recorded segments (or “roll-ins”) into our studio
 productions. The monitors above allow the crew to
 see what is on the different tape machines, and also
 to preview what is coming up next on the switcher.
 The waveform monitor (second from the left) is used
 to see the quality of the signal being put out.

  The left side of the control room console contains most of the
  control equipment for the audio and video sources. The control
  units for all four studio cameras sits in this rack, as well as some
  audio and video processing equipment, a DVD player, a digital
  videocassette player/recorder, and the audio interface that is
  used when integrating phone callers in during our live call-in
  programs. The units on the top of the rack are audio and video
  patch bays, which are used to reconfigure and even bypass
  certain set-ups in case of a unit failure.
  The item at the bottom is the audio mixer, to which all audio
  source feeds, such as playback audio and microphones, are
  sent. This item works like the video switcher, allowing different
  signals to be turned on, turned off, or blended together. The
  main difference being that this unit is used for audio, not video.

 On the far right side of the Control Room console is our SCALA graphics
 station. This is a setup that involves a PC running a video titling program
 called SCALA InfoChannel Designer.
 The graphics produced at this station can be introduced into studio
 programs as a full page, or as a partial page which can then be keyed
 (or superimposed or overlaid) onto all of the program sources coming
 off of the switcher.
 In addition to many image and text options, graphics operators
 can also animate their title creations.