 thumb|right|microwave trucks seen transmitting. modern news employs these trucks extensively. thumb|on location outside baltimore, cameraman jim furrer, sound recordist bill porter, and director david ryan interview participants in a public rowing clinic as part of an early electronic journalism shoot in the 1980s electronic news-gathering (eng) is a broadcast news industry description of television producers, reporters and editors making use of electronic video and audio technologies for gathering and presenting news. the term was commonly used in the television news industry in the 1980s and 1990s, but it has since been less frequently used as the technology has become ubiquitous. electronic news-gathering can involve anything from a lone broadcast journalist reporter taking a single professional video camera out to shoot a story, to an entire television crew taking a production truck or satellite truck on location to do a live television news report for an outside broadcast newscast. ==beginnings== ===shortcomings of film===  the term eng was created as television news departments moved from film based news gathering to electronic field production technology in the 1970s. since film requires chemical processing before it can be viewed and edited, it generally took at least an hour from the time the film arrived back at the television station until it was ready to be broadcast. film editing was done by hand on what was known as "color reversal" film, usually kodak ektachrome, meaning there was no negative film. color reversal film had replaced black-and-white film as television itself evolved from black-and-white to color broadcasting. filmo cameras were most commonly used for silent filming, auricon cameras for filming with synchronized sound. since editing required cutting the film into segments and then splicing them together, a common problem was film breaking during the newscast. news stories were often transferred to bulky two inch video tape for distribution and playback, which made the content cumbersome to access. film remained important in daily news operations until the late 1960s when news outlets adopted portable professional video cameras, portable recorders, wireless microphones and joined those with various microwave and satellite truck linked deliver
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