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Students tour KDKA studios

Interactive Multimedia Storytelling students received a behind the scenes tour of Pittsburgh’s KDKA studios on Wednesday July 19.  

Students met KDKA’s noon time anchor Kristine Sorenson to watch the live taping of the noon news and then tour.  Students watched the live taping from a set of bleachers that gave a view of the entire studio.  They got to witness how fast the anchors and producers have to change the show when something unexpected happens.

After the taping, students toured the studio, the control room, a second studio, and the office areas.  Kristine Sorenson also took time to talk about her job.  She explained the amount of work that goes into each show and how to get into the broadcasting field.

The tour concluded with an open question and answer session with Kristine Sorenson.

Control Room, KDKA, Kristine Sorensen, News at Noon, Pittsburgh, Ron Smiley, Tour

KDKA News at Noon, Meeting Kristine Sorensen and Touring the Set

Yesterday, July 19th, 2017, the Interactive Multimedia Workshop went to the KDKA News at Noon, met Kristine Sorensen, Ron Smiley, and got a tour of the entire KDKA building.

As watching Sorensen, we learned about how the producers work to perfectly time things, how the people in the control room work to get everything done as fast as they could and we got to see how it all worked together.

We saw the control room and how they put all of the screens together, how they make something go live, how some of the buttons and everything worked together to make the show and to make all other KDKA based television shows.

We saw the producer and Ron Smiley and Kristine Sorensen all working together and telling people whats going on in the world right now. Breaking news, stories, weather, just about everything.

We got to view the cubicles and see the stuff that they all do together to work and get the stories done and broadcasted.

We got to see how Ron Smiley works with all of the technology and everything that he has to do. We got to see him work with the Green Screen as well as being able to see him at work at his desk.

We got a sneak peek at how the teleprompters work and we got to see just how it all pieced together to form the show. We saw how it worked with only ONE of the anchors, taking the place of both, who one of the two anchors wasn’t able to be there.