This is a lav mic. It's most likely a tertiary back-up (worst case scenario) if the podium mic and the mics they definitely both have hidden in their neck ties fail. I'm sure if both were to lift up their coats and turn around you'd see a few wireless transmitter packs on them. This mic is there as a back up to the back up. IF the shit hit the fan, audio wise, this would at least transmit something while the audio team scrambled to fix the issue,
Appears to be a Sanken COS11 with a pretty common clip with adhesive around it that was probably taped further up his wrist initially before it fell.
Also, for the record, they were both 100% for sure "wired". On live broadcast no sound mixer would trust 1 microphone on talent. That would be suicide. You'd have multiple failsafes and each person on that broadcast would certainly be wired for sound.
Source: Film and television sound mixer for 15 years.
This is not the hill to die on guys.
This is a lav mic. It's most likely a tertiary back-up (worst case scenario) if the podium mic and the mics they definitely both have hidden in their neck ties fail. I'm sure if both were to lift up their coats and turn around you'd see a few wireless transmitter packs on them. This mic is there as a back up to the back up. IF the shit hit the fan, audio wise, this would at least transmit something while the audio team scrambled to fix the issue,
Appears to be a Sanken COS11 with a pretty common clip with adhesive around it that was probably taped further up his wrist initially before it fell.
Also, for the record, they were both 100% for sure "wired". On live broadcast no sound mixer would trust 1 microphone on talent. That would be suicide. You'd have multiple failsafes and each person on that broadcast would certainly be wired for sound.
Source: Film and television sound mixer for 15 years.