WLOSers use sweet production switcher to produce HD programming

Jason Sandford

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Those engineers love their equipment. Press release from BroadcastEngineering.com:

WLOS, the Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate in Asheville, NC, and serving the western Carolinas, is driving its newly launched HD newscast with a Snell Kahuna SD/HD multiformat production switcher.

WLOS began its HD news broadcasts in September 2008 and is now airing 30.5 hours of HD news every week. The station added the Kahuna as a result of Sinclair’s decision to standardize all of its news operations on the multiformat switcher. In preparation for the HD news shows, WLOS upgraded its control room equipment to include new graphics and clip playout systems as well as Panasonic HD cameras. It continues to rely on SD equipment for outside content.