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Oops. 158° in Adelaide

Some days it can get too darn hot in Adelaide.

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Some days it can get too darn hot in Adelaide.

But 158° is taking things way too far. Yesterday, Weekend Sunrise put viewers on (very) high alert when their barometer was off the charts.

Perhaps someone was typing 18° into a data field that had previously been 15°, or it may have been a feed source from elsewhere.

Thankfully it only got to a much cooler 18°.

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  2. The regular spelling mistakes on the bottom screen banners always amaze me. They have a control room full of people staring at screens yet no one seems to notice, even when told repeatedly on social medial.

    1. The actually don’t have many operators/crew in their control rooms anymore. Automation has meant that Character Generators once operated by highly trained & experienced technicians, are now driven by a system, so spelling and grammar goes unchecked, like it previously was several years ago.

    2. Spelling on the banners is the least of the worries in an automated control room. The operator is dealing with lining up location crosses, camera shots, sound and technical difficulties and doesn’t have time to check spelling. In a fully staffed control room you have a Directors Assistant whose job it is to time when they appear on screen and also check the spelling, person’s title is correct etc. Then the vision switcher manually pushes a button to make them appear once cleared. In an automated control room the computer puts them up automatically and is relying on the journalist/producer/news room assistant to have entered the correct time and spelling.

          2. … maybe not as outrageous as 158 degrees, but the number of misspellings, wrong title over wrong person, shifted-by-one (where the super that should have come up comes up next instead one after the other) that have occurred since the specialist operator was removed from the control room certainly qualifies as “many” in my book …

          4. … never watched Sunrise … no any news program run out of “an automated control room” … which is pretty-well all of them these days …

    3. Oh okay. I was thinking of all the times they have actually shown the control room people in front of a wall of tv screens for special occasions etc. I forgot about all the automation these days

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