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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Wired!
At CNN’s French campaign headquarters, a Paris terrace with beautiful views of the Eiffel Tower, what you see on the air and what you would see if the camera turned a just a few degrees one way or the other – or tilted down to the floor - is an entirely different picture. We share small tables, we eat chips and sandwiches at our laptop computers, we tape guest lists to the walls, phones ring and producers shout across the workspace. Then there are the dozens of boxes for the mountains of TV equipment we need to put any field show on the air. I ask CNN engineer J.J. Eynon to describe two big black boxes hooked up to dozens of cables. I see him sitting in front of those boxes almost all day so I assume they’re important. "What is that? That thing you’re sitting in front of?" I ask. "What thing?" "Those two big black boxes. Those things." He enunciates clearly and separates each syllable. "That is the flyaway," he replies. "The FLY-A-WAAAY."
J.J. adds that the dish is "one-point-nine meters and that’s quite big." I believe him. We’ve left nothing to chance: We have two live cameras and a studio designed to accommodate an anchor position and two guests. We will be live at 1800GMT for the results and all evening with important decision-makers and political analysts. Our Jim Bittermann and Robin Oakley will be live at campaign headquarters. After the results, we will be going down to street level and broadcast live reaction to the vote. The multi-colored wires and cables will be put to good use. From Hala Gorani, CNN International Anchor/Correspondent |
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