Franklin Matters: Franklin TV: TV’s, Cameras, Lights!

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Franklin TV: TV’s, Cameras, Lights!

Then we’re ready for Lights, Cameras, Action!

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 05/25/2025

It’s another TV Studio makeover. Chris Flynn and I returned to the Dean TV studio to work with Gregg Seibert (left) and Peter Leger (right) to fine tune the Dean College studio system – the background displays, the cameras, and the lights. If you watch any TV at all, these days all the major evening newscasts and many of the Prime-time live programs use digital background displays to visually dramatic effect. To play those effects to best – umm, effect takes careful optical calibration. How do we do this? We match the cameras to the displays. Then we adjust the lights to the cameras. Precisely.

Gregg Seibert (left) and Peter Leger (right)

optical calibration

Franklin TV studios are the only PEG facilities in the state that are fully equipped and optimized to perform this same visual magic as the national TV networks. Last fall we installed this capability in the Dean studio, and began producing programs for Franklin.TV, making the Dean College an able extension of our own facility. When Dean students visit our studio or work as interns, they will be in familiar surroundings, and prepared for careers in a state-of-the-art operation.

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