Pittsfield Business Day

Mobile Production Vehicle Productions

Pittsfield Business Day-October 27, 2004
This is probably the most ambitious and complicated program PCTV has ever produced.  This was a day-long series of conferences dealing with business in the Berkshires.  There were multiple events happening at the same time in different rooms of the Crown Plaza Hotel.  We were not only able to tape every event, but we were able to show everything live on two different channels as the events were taking place.  We hooked directly to our live drop at the hotel for one channel and microwaved a feed to the First Baptist Church for the other live feed.

We had to start setting up the shoot at 6am, so this is a morning shot-not a night shot	Now our truck doesn't look so large compared to the Crowne Plaza
Here is our truck with the microwave on top aiming in the vicinity of the First Baptist Church	Shawn Serre puts the microwave in a better spot for maximum clarity of signal
This is the view of the First Baptist Church from our production vehicle	The control of the truck for the day. We were monitoring two different feeds throughout the day
Here is the two feeds in action.  On the left monitor is one conference happening in the back conference room. On the right monitor is the conference happening in the Berkshire Room	This is the big crowd awaiting the Keynote Address from Lawrence Bossidy
Rob Dumais listens intently to two different sound sources	David Cachat directs the action at the switcher

2004 PCTV Productions