The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. [46], No. [48], Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1979 Page: 1 of 7
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BEFORE THE NEWS BROADCAST IS ON THE AIR LIVE* Martinez [standing] explains a splicing technique to students and
vidio tape from the mini-camera mobile unit is edited in the production staff Connie Ipina, Rene Escobedo [center] and
editing room and prepared for tire new broadcast. Instructor Ray Esteben Alonso.
Photos and
story by
Charles Nelson
JOE REYES* LEFT* PUTS THE MINI CAMERA TOGETHER IN THE
studio in preparation for the news broadcast. Esteben Alonso [standing]
watches as he waits for his job in the control room to begin.
The Pharr
Press
Section B November 29, 1979
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MARI SANTILLAN PREPARES NAMES* TITLES AND character generator, a recent addition to the PSJA television
CREDIT LINES FOR THE UPCOMING NEWS SHOW AT THE control room.
CONNIE IPINA* ON AUDIO CONTROL* AND ESTEBAN being taped. The view is from the control room looking at the
Alonso on the switch panel observe the news men while they are studio.
—
CAMERAMAN FRANK CORONADO FOCUSES HIS CAMERA
ACCORDING TO CONTROL ROOM SPECIFICATIONS
SHORTLY BEFORE NEWSMEN Robert Tanguma [left] and
Tony Salazar begin the news show.
THIS IS WHAT THE NEWS MEN SEE AS THEIR NEWS
PRESENTATION IS FILMED. Robert Tanguma [foreground],
news man, presents the news and Joe Reyes [left] and Frank
Coronado [right] run the studio cameras. Noe Vallejo, floor
manager [center] coordinates activities.
PSJA High's TV st udio "uncapped”
“Uncap the studio camera.”
“Who is on studio, who’s on the mini-cameraO”
“Number 4 (light), is it plugged inO Come down on
number three a little. Number seven, full blast.”
“Is there anything we can do to make this set look
betterO”
“We need more debth, right.”
Amid the noise and hustle of preparing the PSJA studio
for the weekly Television Production newscast, Instructor
Ray Martinez moved around directing the operations. Set
decorator Mari Santillan prepared the broadcast area and
Roy De Leon, lighting director, moved and adjusted the
lights.
Studio cameraman Frank Coronado set up the large
studio camera and adjusted it to control room specifications.
Mini-camera operator Joe Reyes focused his camera on
close up shots of the broadcaster’s faces. Connie Ipina, from
inside the control room adjusted the microphones. Floor
Manager Noe Vallejo coordinated studio activities.
In the control room, which has a large glass window that
looks upon the studio, Director-Producer Rene Escobedo
followed a show format (the sequence of events that will
follow during the news show) to coordinate the studio
production.
In the control room Esteban Alonso controlled the switch
panel. The “switcher” controls (at the orders of the
director) the transitions from one studio camera to another
and from studio to vidio-tape. The PSJA control room has
the capacity to handle four cameras and two vidio-tapes.
Also in the control room was Connie Ipina controlling audio,
the microphones in the studio, music and vidio-tape audio.
And Mari Santillan worked on the character generator, the
machine which produces the titles, names and credits seen
on the television screen.
When the director believed all was ready, Newscasters
Robert Tanguma and Tony Salazar checked their mikes one
last time and they were “on the air”.
PSJA television production classes (there are two, one in
the morning from 8:30 to 10:30 and one in the afternoon
from 12:15 to 3:15) produce a weekly newscast each week.
The first was broadcast Thanksgiving week. Each week
another news broadcast is produced and can be seen on
Channel 2 at 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. The show covers primarily
high school events.
Television Production is under the vocational department
this year, a switch from the academic department. There
are 21 students enrolled. Besides the newscasts, the classes
also produce special features and broadcast all home
football and basketball high school games. The classes are
presently working on a monster movie “Hideon” to be aired
shortly, and on vidio-taping the “Reynard the Fox” drama
department production.
The viHio-taDe editinerjor mini-camra mobile newscasts
and for feature shows and movies, are edited in the editing
room. Here $10,000 worth of equipment electronically
splices, cuts, adds music and voice to the vidio-tape without
any cutting or splicing. Martinez said the value of the PSJA
television department’s equipment, with the recently
awarded grant of $14,000, is about $95,000. “The facilities
we have are comparable to any university and are among
the top five of Texas high schools,” Martinez said. And he
added that last year, PSJA’s television classes were rated
among the best in the state with their number “1” rating at
the University of Texas Film Theater for “80 Proof Youth”.
About the only thing we need, Martinez said, is a
permanent structure for our department. “The present
portable building doesn’t have sufficient ceiling height for
best results.”
But Martinez didn’t act as though that would keep his
classes from another number “1” rating. “We are going to
enter several festivals again this year,” he said.
These students are in the Morning Classess: Bob Kristek,
Roger Lara, Cergiro Cervantes, Loreto Cantu, Javier Ruiz,
Ciro Cano, Melody Cisnero, Hope Gonzalez, Frank
Rodriguez, Raul Ramqp, Felix Facundo, David Martinez.
Instructional aids, and former television students, for
Martinez are Art Sandoval and Mauro Trevino.
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Nelson, Charles. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. [46], No. [48], Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1979, newspaper, November 29, 1979; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth867184/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.