October 1998
Beginner
192 pages
3h 52m
English
The main aim of a network director (or transmission controller) is to run a smooth, clean transmission, with programmes starting on time, promotions running at appropriate points and all commercial requirements fulfilled.
Most networks have fixed points – usually for the main evening news programmes – which often start at precisely the top of the hour. To achieve this level of accuracy takes a great deal of work and skill, and the presentation department is dependent on information from programme makers to be precise, ft is inexcusable for quoted programme durations to be inaccurate – it will invariably result in the network looking messy and amateurish.
More than anything, network ...
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