Tech that brings you the news

Hunter Thompson is famous for saying a lot of things, but one of my favorite quotes has always been “As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m okay. It’s a decent day.” Well, today I hope we could all learn something by showing you the tech that brings you the news. That technology may be something you already use in your everyday life.

According to Industry Veteran David Moore, the same digital signal that runs your cellphone isn’t much different than what brings you the news. Moore has been working behind the camera since 1979 and remembers what it took to get a signal during a live remote back then.

“In the old days, the good old days that people say that were really not that good,” says Moore, “It was the golden age of television almost when it came to live remotes, but you’d have to have a truck, a flat surface. You got to look up to make sure power lines or trees weren’t available. You’d have to run a mast up about 52 feet and you had to have direct line of site.”

Now television stations can go live using a cellphone to broadcast and while it’s better, it’s not quite perfect.

“Now, if you had a big event like when President Trump had his rally here a few years ago, everyone inside the Roundhouse used up the bandwidth. So therefore, you’ve got to have an Ethernet cable. A lot of us use fanny packs that have about five cellphone packs in them so you can get good coverage from practically everywhere,” says Moore. “The technology keeps changing for the best. So therefore, you can get news out to people quicker. You can share videos with people who are on the scene. That’s why you see videos coming in real time now. It’s solid and it’s a sharper image. In most cases, people don’t even realize it’s a cell phone and out of a backpack.”