18—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 11,1986 LIVE from Tempe via satellite: It's your hometown sports report Although it seems oh-so-far away with finals starting in less than four days, it will be Christmas before you know it. Christmas, with Mom’s homemade chocolate chip coo kies, decorating the tree, and forcing to keep that smile on your face as relatives make the “I can’t believe my little granddaughter/nie ce/cousin has grown up” annual scene. And then New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve with all its bubbly, parties, hats and horns, music, seeing old friends, making new ones. And then you can’t forget the bowl games. Or, as some say, THE Bowl Game. But Penn State won’t be the only team from the Keystone State preparing to hit Tempe, Ariz. Director: Audio, fade up ACTION NEWS theme music (Do do do do doodle-it-do, do do do DO DO, doodle-it-do). Director: Roll opening video (Shows winter scenes and winter people around the wintery Philadelphia area). Director: Cut to Jim (Here we see 'Mr. Garner at the newsdesk). ALL SOFTWARE 20-50% OFF! | Software | JINGLE DISK Create Christmas cards and see an animated Christmas tale on your IBM PC-, Commo dore, or Apple 11-compatible. WHILE THEY LAS Disks BASF 5-PACKS BASF 3 1 /2" SS BASF3 1 / 2 "DS 5 1 /»" 10-PACKS BASFISID ... BONUS2S2D KODAK 2SQD /^Yourone S°l & / 222 w - Cor "The Philadelphia Streets Department continues its clean-up of the mess yesterday’s Mummers Parade relievers left behind. And local merchants are calling this one of the most successful sales seasons in quite some time. But the big story on Action News tonight is in Tempe, Ariz. For that story, let’s go to the Action News team and Gary Papa,' live via satellite in Tempe." Or that could be the Lou Tilley / Jackie Hays or A 1 Meltzer’s news team. Or for those of you who hail from the 'Burg, it could be John Steigerwald, Stan Savron or the Sam Nover/Roxanne Stein newsteam. Or Erie’s Mike Ruzzi or John Evans. Or even Scranton’s Tim Carlson/Mike Ste vens, Lancaster's Jim Stone or Altoona’s John Greggory/Barbara Petito. And they’ll all be coming into living rooms across Pennsylvania, LIVE via satellite. That’s right, not “taped earlier” or “file video,” but LIVE. Live telecasts can be done one of three ways: A) live telephone hook-ups, which strips the audience of video information and racks the station for major bucks. B) local live shots, which are normally done with “golden rods” mounted on the newsvans. Golden rods enable the news crew to bounce the signal back to the station. Yet signals cannot go through barriers like trees, mountains, buildings or the curve .of the earth. (You know these live scenes your BUY 1 GET 2 FREE! Buy Microsoft’s MULTIPLAN spreadsheet analysis software and get your choice of any two of the following, FREE: • BUDGET • MULTI-TOOL/FINANCIAL favorite local reporter in front of city hall in your town, or a nearby town.) C) satellite pickups, which allow stations to broadcast live from any point on the earth. Although live coverage via satellite isn’t brand-spanking new to network affiliates, it’s still in the infant stage according to Dean Jordan, Penn State’s Coordinator for Radio, Television and Media. Jordan even predicts that a few stations which would normally cover a major college bowl game like Penn State’s, won’t due to how far away the game is being played. In effect, Jordan said all Pennsylvania stations have the capability to go live from various locations such as Penn State, yet during the last five years only four or five stations have done so. “Most games end on a different time than when the newscast does,’’Jordan said. “It just hasn’t been convenient for stations to go live to the game during a newscast.” Besides not being convenient, live shots via satellite aren’t cheap. Producer Jeff Weissbart of Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV said the cost of renting satellite equipment may range from $2500 to $3OOO a day. Or a station could buy its own satellite truck for a mere $500,000. Weissbart added that usually four or five stations work out a deal where each has a different live telecast. Each station receives all telecasts and a simple switch to telephone lines will allow each team to hear its own home control room. NEW from ji, Texas lnstruments TI-60 • 124 Powerful Functioris • 84 Program Steps • 12 User Memories •10 Digit Display • 13 Mode or Status Indicators • Octal-Decimal-Hex Bases • Mean and Standard Deviation ' CAMPUS STEREO Do you really want your resume to look like- this? ■**-» The above copy was printed by a daisy-wheel printer- the kind of printer used by most personal computers. \ Or, would you rather it looked like this? \ Th 6 above copy was produced by a phototypesetter. 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Anchor/reporter Jackie Hays, sports anchor Lou Tilley and weatherperson Linda Giala nella of Philadelphia’s KYW-TV were on hand with KYW’s new Satellite News Gather ing .(SNG) van that it shares with its sister station WJAZ-TV in Baltimore. The itinerary was supposed to go some thing like this: Noon 3 p.m. Hays, special projects producer Shelley Laurence and cameraper son Andy Coff arrive in Happy Valley to put together a package on how Penn State gears up before a big rivalry. Yeah. Guess again. I guess I never really thought about it, but Penn State on a Football Friday is a whole other world than it is on a Football Saturday. The crew had absolutely zero video evidence that Pitt would be on our turf in less than 24 hours after combing the campus, and town. No banners, pep rallies or special events, but I did manage to show them an “Omit Pitt” button. What a thrill. One button. 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. We arrive at Beaver Stadium and prepare to link signals with the satellite to Philadelphia. Oops, guess again. The half-million dollar, three-ton SNG van had sunk into about a foot of quicksand-like mud. From that location, the satellite could not be found. Two tow trucks later, the SNG was ready. But something malfunctioned and • Powerful program memory stores up, to 150 keystrokes in 48 fully merged steps. • Seven multi-use memories provide addressable mem .ory locations to store and recall data. • Comes with the Programmable Calculator Sourcebook with step-by step instructions and examples. • Powers, roots, log and trig functions, and much more. again the satellite could not be located. 4:30 telecast After discovering KDKA from Pittsburgh was uplinking at a different time, KYW was given the choice to piggy back. With operations given the green light, yet another malfunction permitted only the cameraman, instead of the on-camera peo ple, to hear the countdown and directions of the news producers. As far as the Fiesta Bowl preparation goes, most of the stations from Pennsylvania are flying to Tempe and then either renting satellite vans or piggybacking. Weissbart said KDKA is even taking its own van and making the trek via highway to Tempe. The consensus of coverage will be live spots, either opening the show, sports or special reports, during the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts. Laurence and Hays said KYW is even planning to follow a group of Penn State students from their departure to Tempe, through the aftermath of the game. Most stations are gearing up to begin telecasting each night from Dec. 29 through the day of the game. Who knows, perhaps Penn State broadcast journalism students will one day be practic ing their skills doing live shots via satellite from . .. And now, back to you, Gar. Carol D. Rath is a senior majoring in broadcast journalism and a sports writer for The Daily Collegian. TI-74 BASICALC • Both a Scientific Calculator with 70 functions and a Basic Programmable Calculator with 113 commands • 8K RAM Expands to 16K •.31 Character Alphanumeric Display that Scrolls Left or Right 80 Characters • Optional PC-324 Printer TI-57 A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT AT ONLY *22 95 Mon-Fri 10-9 Saturday 10-6 Sunday 12-5 leers sssr-ss.’u *. ». - ifswsas Ming Amo.«the Ice, giving Penn Stele its first “JSS SC ° re a " d °'Z£SL out flat end they seemed to get all Rob Smith gave Penn State a little more “Overall, it was a good, intense game,” Penn the bounces m the first period while we didn t. In M^'ss'stessr tar “ tha 7 si Ssss The Lions drew first blood thanks to the power Co-captain Sipe, who had a goal and three wanted to go into the break at 12 3. we warn to De « s»:sr ,he “ was vua ' ,o ,ha yearVbutECC came back when Antersol tipped “It was a good comeback for us,” he said a winner.’ Silence Continued from Page 13 ing what he would’ve said last night. This is the season that the Lions are supposed to make their presence felt in the Atlantic 10 and it appeared they were off to a good start after winning the AMI Classic in Miami, Things have gone downhill since then, but it’s not yet time to write off the season. The key now is to see if ~ FortheX-Mas gifts you think you can’t afford check ZIFF’S Discount Prices Calder k Square Fiesta Bowl Special $42 double $47 triple ■ Am-lUT.i. $52 quad. lUuftilluil Call Now Limited Space A 800-325-2525 .10 Minutes From ASU the team can respond to last night’s debacle better than it did to the loss to Loyola. If it doesn’t, it could be anoth er long season in Happy Valley. Parkhill and his assistants have to regroup and try to find out why they haven’t been able to motivate their team. It’s understandable that the players might be preoccupied by the approach of final exams, but it seems Westerly Parkway Plazail 333 W. Juanita Mesa, Arizona 602-844-8900 reasonable to expect them to put that determine the team’s direction the out of their minds for the time it takes rest of the season, to play the game. For all concerned, here’s one who The players need to shake the rust hopes last night’s travesty is never from their performances and come again repeated together as - a team. It’s likely that some hard feelings exist between the players and Parkhill after last night’s marathon team meeting. How both sides respond in the near future will MICHAEL’S CLOTHING CO. s a . 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