I remember way back when, if any party's convention was on at least two (analog!) TV channels would be carrying it. If you tuned AM or FM there would be at least 3 stations carrying it. They'd save the commentary for afterwards and there were good precise commercial breaks at the convention ... a breakaway announcement and local TV stations went to announcements and commercials, and at the live event some artist would come up and sing a precise 3/4/5 minute song and the TV network people would be standing there beside the stage counting with fingers ... so when local TV stations were back from commercial the live event was ready, to the second.
Now it's just talk and talk not even interesting, even interrupting. Most infuriating is when the network/local flack says "Oh, so and so is speaking [you can hear so and so in the background] We now return you to the blahdy blady blah where [so and so still in background] is saying something we didn't catch the first bit...but here it is... ready, set, go...."
Amateur. If Zoom had a option to start a 30/60 second timer and superimpose huge countdown numbers on your camera feed, then blink out at :03 sec, normal people could deliver and start on split-second cues. Net operators could spot cues and act on them just like a control room. Instead it's just little people heads staring at you on the screen and you're straining to see if they are licking their lips before they speak.
I remember way back when, if any party's convention was on at least two (analog!) TV channels would be carrying it. If you tuned AM or FM there would be at least 3 stations carrying it. They'd save the commentary for afterwards and there were good precise commercial breaks at the convention ... a breakaway announcement and local TV stations went to announcements and commercials, and at the live event some artist would come up and sing a precise 3/4/5 minute song and the TV network people would be standing there beside the stage counting with fingers ... so when local TV stations were back from commercial the live event was ready, to the second.
Now it's just talk and talk not even interesting, even interrupting. Most infuriating is when the network/local flack says "Oh, so and so is speaking [you can hear so and so in the background] We now return you to the blahdy blady blah where [so and so still in background] is saying something we didn't catch the first bit...but here it is... ready, set, go...."
Amateur. If Zoom had a option to start a 30/60 second timer and superimpose huge countdown numbers on your camera feed, then blink out at :03 sec, normal people could deliver and start on split-second cues. Net operators could spot cues and act on them just like a control room. Instead it's just little people heads staring at you on the screen and you're straining to see if they are licking their lips before they speak.