Had a cool experience tonight… Christian Anderson, a friend in our church, has a cousin who works at The Weather Channel here in Atlanta. He was very gracious to give us a tour of the new HD studio. I took a few photos of the new set, and some photos of the ‘ruins’ of the original set. Pretty cool stuff.
The HD set is very cool… It is constructed to rotate allowing for dozens of configurations. All of the cameras are robotic… There are no ‘camera men’ standing on the set. It’s just the anchor(s), a producer, and the maps operator (who’s sitting right behind one of the walls within earshot of the anchor). Everything else appeared to be run from one of three control rooms.
I wish I could have spent more time examining every single nook and cranny, but the “Evening Edition” was about to go live. The two anchors were very laid back and made sure they told me they look better on camera than in person.
Friday morning, I’ll be visiting the CNN Studios sets here in Atlanta while the morning show is live in New York with my friend David who works for Turner Broadcasting. That should be cool. Hopefully I’ll get to share some photos from that visit as well.
Here are some of the photos I took…
