Here’s One For All The “Sparkys”
Do you have a favorite sign from your broadcast facility to share? If so, please do! I think this one was on the front of a quad VTR.
Here’s One For All The “Sparkys”
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I know the feeling!
David, thought you’d LoVe this! :
I used to post a sign that said, “Life is Precious, Television is furniture”.
No sign, but when at KEMO-TV Ch 20, San Francisco back in the late ’70s if the chroma key failed we all knew that certain spot on the “rack” to pound with a closed fist to make magic happen.
Love it!
At the PEG channel I volunteer at, near a DVD dub station—-
SP=1 hour
LP=2 hours
EP=4 hours
SLP=don’t even think about it!
At the senior video console at WNEV, Boston – “Please turn off Harry after show”. Harry was the senior video op, and our shop steward. Great guy.
If everything were only that simple! đ
I put this on the doors of my equipment rooms…
ha ha ha ha …. very funny…!
Sheese… it does not seem that long ago… yes the things we did to stay on the air… Swapping boards and cards … and yes this sign is appropriate… Some of us got to a place where we only worked on stuff… never fixing it… Because as soon as you declared something fixed… it had to work forever!!! When the boss would ask if this or that was fixed… I would say it is working… Yes, we worked on it and found this… etc…
We’ve got a solid dozen in our main edit bay: The edit bay was dedicated for our retired newscast editor, with a sign proclaiming his catch phrase: “Did you get that thing done yet??”
Not broadcast specific, but in our Master Control/Video control room…”Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on our part.”
“If you take it from the rack, put the motherf-kr back”
Not one of ours, but from the radio world…!
Did tour a tv station once where most of the cameras and VTR’s had a tape “X” on them. Chief explained the “X” was where he tapped the offending piece of equipment with a hammer when it acted up…
It’s only television, it isn’t brain surgery.
It’s almost never a fuse. Even if it is, there is an underlying problem.