Tally lights on cameras in main studio must be properly controlled by the switcher. Character Generator in Hot Line studio should produce color output. The unreliable Panasonic switcher was replaced with a better Crosspoint Latch switcher, which is not RS-170A compliant. This switcher allows clients to save their work to disk, but the color lock is unreliable. It is anticipated that obsolete equipment will be replaced by the City of Seattle when funding is in place.
Drop outs can occur for a variety of reasons, including tape stock and past usage.
Examples of problem tapes should be brought to the Center staff. Second phone line needed in Hotline studio. Ability to check out individual items such as lighting kits, microphone, etc. Producers realize this breaks up a full field production kit, but it actually prevents the producer from having to take the whole kit off the primises to use only the lighting portion of the kit. Booking cablecasting times by phone.