Broadcasting

The progress of digital technologies within the television industry has led to more advanced equipment, both for private and professional use. One specific area where this development has been noticed is in control rooms used to conduct live or taped television broadcasts. To conduct "traditional" live broadcasted programs, a variety of operators in the control room works and each operator is responsible for one specific equipment, such as a sound engineers and vision engineer. The centralization has made possible that only one or two operators can be in charge of conducting an entire broadcast. The aim of this investigation has been to investigate how the production has been affected by centralization, not only from a technical point of view but also how all those involved to create a sport television programs has been affected. The apparent result has been that the amount of staff in the control room has been reduced and this has led to further consequences for the remaining staff in production. The centralization has resulted in a less costly production for the production company in the long run, because of the decreasing in staff. It has also resulted in additional work task for all staff involved in creating and broadcasting the television programs.
 
The extended technical task for the operators in a centralized control room has meant that the priority of focusing on the visual parts of the broadcast have decreased and therefore, the visual aspects have been neglected. This factor was confirmed both by the television viewers and editorial staff during different focus groups. Wider technical knowledge as well as greater dedication towards the overall responsibility to carry out a broadcast is required from the operators operating in a centralized control room.

People in control
People working together trying to achieve a common goal are often bound to work in team. Teamwork in a control room is essential for the different operators to be able to conduct a television program. Since traditional television control room uses different professions to operate different equipment, an understanding on how a good team is working is necessary.
People working in control rooms are referred to as control room operators, or just operators. The operators could have the same task, but they may also have different responsibilities in the control room. Modern control room works like a command center. The operators are supervising or controlling one or more computers via a certain user interface.

Production control room (PCR)
Educated staff operates the studios and the control rooms that are used to make the sport production. The control rooms that in general produces the actual content and composition is known as a Production Control room (PCR) or a Studio Control room (SCR). The final production, which consists of a final video- and audio signal, is then sent to the Master control room.

Master control room (MCR)
MCR has unlike PCR the task of taking care of all input and output fiber- and satellite signals.

Transmission control room (TCR)
TCR (Transmission control room) also known as playout or program control, has the responsibility of delivering the final product to different transmission service companies who then delivers the video signal to the viewers all over the country. It could be either pre-recorded programs or live content material produced by a PCR in the same building, or produced elsewhere, known as outside broadcast (OB). If the television channel has prescheduled programs, the playout operators have the responsibility that these planed timeslots are kept

When the purpose is to centralizing a system, the most obvious effects are the reduction of staff operating in the PCR. Due to this factor, the sub-effects that occur because of this, is principally the most central factor that affects everyone in the production. The consequence of this is that the staff needs to take on new work-task to their existing responsibilities. This may result that the main, similar task in a traditional PCR could get a lower priority in a centralized PCR, no matter what work function there are. Since the operators in the centralized PCR get more technical duties, one obvious priority that gets less prioritized are the artistic and visual aspects of the broadcast. All the different groups that participated in the different focus groups confirmed that this was a visible factor.