What's Inside a MASSIVE TV Broadcast Truck ? - Full Tour!

Today we are taking a look at a full scale broadcast truck that brings major international live events to your TV ! Thanks to all the team at AMP Visual TV for this unique opportunity!

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[zebrazone]

Hope you like this tech tour! These OB trucks are out on the field non stop so we had this rare opportunity with a limited time inside, which is why we didn’t cover all the aspects in further detail! Feel free to pinpoint all inaccuracies that I may have said. Thanks so much for all your support and nice comments! What would you like to see next ? 😀

[MatthewWalster]

Better production quality than most mid-budget television shows, with a more compelling host who clearly loves what they do, and a genuinely fascinating subject... That's Zebra Zone for sure!

[farley]

I've worked in OB trucks like this for 8 years. Even collaborated with AMP on few occasions. It's an amazing and endlessly cool job ... but be careful, it can eat up your life if you let it. Very physically, mentally and time intensive. :) ...but also the best multimedia technology school you can imagine. No university can teach you what a year at company like that can give you. Trust me. If you can operate an OB truck, no studio anywhere will take you by surprise.

[thesmallterror]

I would watch a 6 hour breakdown of the workflow in every chair. So much thought is going into this.

[JKVisFX]

That's the first time I have ever been able to see inside a mobile broadcast truck before. Clearly, this one is a true, state-of-the-art system ready for today's digital, 4k standards. I am having a true geek out over this one.

[itapmedia]

We need more of these videos...excellent content

[DeclanMBrennan]

Thanks for a fascinating tour of an actual tardis. What an amazing design. It's incredible how much functionality has been packed in.

[bill]

It’s amazing how much technology has changed the remote business. I worked as a student at my college and my high school with the same truck where we had to load up the truck for sports recordings. Four cameras and a very heavy quadraplex video recorder that handled two-inch videotape (in college we used three-quarter inch video cassettes-Sony U-Matics) that practically gave us all a bad injury due to weight. We were fortunate to have a second set of camera control units so we just had to load up cameras and the cabling (thank goodness for cable winders for both audio and camera cables) for production. Audio was handled by the old Shure microphone mixers that were very thin and could be cascaded for more channels beyond five. Inside the microphone array was the standard EV 635 and EV RE-20 microphones with a couple of EV shotgun microphones to cover the house audio like crowd noise. We also carried a behemoth Ampex mono reel-to-reel for other sounds such as music (and that thing was well over 125 pounds but built very well. Overall it was a great truck for its time but by the time my college got it, there were several things that were not part of the sale to the college, but we had some engineers there who were able to give us the same thing using less equipment so we had many an exciting weekend covering football and basketball and the best part was that it all counted as Lab Work for our Television classes. But truth be told, I loved the Philips cameras we had in the college studio as they so much sharper. The Ikegami camera we had for a third camera was always a pia as more people had access to it (news classes) and that meant adjustments were always out of standard and we spent twenty minutes getting it in sync with the studio/remote cameras every time. Of course I am talking about the time right before stereo TV audio became the de facto standard, so things were far easier to pull together. The best thing about having the truck was we didn’t have to drag a quad machine out of the studio for taping. The Ampex AVR-1 decks we had were great but would never have survived under student remote operations. Overall, it was a fun part of my life, but I am so glad that I was more of an audio type than a TV engineering type. Yeah, I picked up just enough to make me dangerous with adjustments but I loved the audio program in college and I went on to do radio which was far less stressful on me. But looking at that rig you showed off, I am so glad that it’s not in my hands. It’s that more powerful than anything I could have ever imagined back in my college days.

[matthewphillips]

Videos like this and the comments people post give me so much pride to work in broadcast. It's one thing to tell my loved ones about what I do, but it's even better being able to show them a video like this that does such a good job of explaining everything that goes on in one of these amazing trucks!

[TechnoTradingFinance]

WOW, I work in the same field but into a cruise ship, and I'm amazed to see all the systems that we daily work on, compacted and well structured into a big truck! its majestic to see the beauty of the engineering and broadcasting in other shapes !!!! Thank you for sharing this <3

[jellebigge]

Production value of the charts again. Thanks man!

[toamastar]

Ive had the privilege of seeing one of these in person and its so cool! What you almost never see is the warehouse team that sort and supply all the extra gear that goes onto another (or several other) trucks that take all the gear that goes to events! :) shout out to those guys! :)

[AJ_UK_LIVE]

Great to see you again! This truck is truly a marvel. The amount of tech packed in is remarkable. I am also amazed it has enough battery power for 30 minutes run time - that's one heck of a UPS! Thank you for another cool video.

[voiceofjeff]

Extremely impressive. The engineering and design that went into each of these mobile studios must be mind-blowing. You very adequately explained each section and how it integrates into a production. Well done. Thank you!

[hullinstruments]

Hope to see you upload more videos. That camera tear down adventure you took us on last year was incredible. And I look forward to anything you do in the future

[tanzad]

very interesting video, love seeing all this stuff! it's insane just how much technology and how many people go into a single broadcast

[bastienpabiot]

9000 shows in a year with 40 trucks means each truk works more than 200 days per year, beyond the technical magic they are doing, it's also impressive because of the crazy reliability of such a complex system

[Russeljrjs]

The production quality of this channel is fenomenal

[gamerwoods]

Let's goooo
Zebra Zone posted again!

[MikeKobb]

Awesome truck, awesome tour. That double-slide is really something. You can tell that the truck was really designed by experienced folks because they put that back-of-rack access hatch there so that you can get behind all that gear and add/remove/change wiring wiring easily. 👍🏻