"Results of the UK General Election are covered by BBC Television for the first time. The graphics are executed by signwriters."
election broadcast technology through history
This list covers the period from 1920 when the Harding - Cox election results were first broadcast by radio, to the present day when presenters have to interact with a virtual reality zoo of giant, artless, real-time animated charts.
The first live TV election broadcasts were produced in the 50s, employing professional sign writers would have to paint charts, live. Static and very basic sets were used well into the 70s, as can be seen from the spartan US military set in South Vietnam for the 1972 Nixon election.
Despite the technology behind contemporary broadcast sets, they are all unimaginatively dull, with identical patriotic, red white and blue color schemes and similar color blends and soft shading. These are the TV equivalent of a hideous blue-white blend default Powerpoint template.
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"In Pittsburgh, Westinghouse radio station KDKA schedules the first commercial radio broadcast—the Harding-Cox presidential election results."
"Using a green screen you can create professional political pro democratic or pro republican shows using virtually all keying software for Macs and PCs presently on the market."
Fox News temporary studio, is located at Unitel Studios in New York.<p /><p />The set "features a massive rear projection screen on an upper level, many glass panels, a United States map for drawing on, modern led desk, many plasmas".
CNN made a big deal of their holographic system, which is merely a virtual set which can contain live action interviews, rather than merely graphics.<p /><p />To the viewer the image is the same as if a hologram were used, just like watching Star Wars special effects, but not for the interviewer.
