HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-12-16, Page 20PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1987.
Out behind Memorial Hall were three more trucks including the satellite truck in the foreground ready to
beam the television picture from Blyth, up to a satellite and back to Toronto and [background] the mobile
control room from where the show will be controlled.
Wintario's
travelling
TV show
comes to Blyth
The load-in of equipment from two tractor-trailer trucks began on Wednesday as the Global television
crew started taking the necessary equipment for the Wintario draw into Blyth Memorial Hall.
Co-hosts Greg Beresford and Faye Dance prepare to get the show corner, the floor director gets ready to give them the signal they’re back
underway again after acommercial break while in the lower left on the air.
The winning started at the Wintario draw Thursday before the
program even began as Tim Chapman, general manager of the Blyth
Festival draws door prizes of free books of Wintario tickets.
Area residents got a chance to
see just how network television is
produced Thursday night when
Global Television brought the
weekly Wintario broadcast to
Blyth.
The broadcast is taken around
the province to various locations
each week so the crew knows just
what is involved in getting the
show on air on time. Two loaded
transport trucks parked out in front
of Memorial Hall early Wednesday
and crew swarmed to work carry
ing the television equipment and
the special machine that choose the
lottery numbers up the ramp into
the hall. Dozens of powerful lights
were hooked up to light up the
stage and the audience for the
sensitive television cameras.
Three more trucks arrived later
back of the hall. One is another
large trailer with the mobile
television control room where the
director and his crew control what
goes on air. Another truck contains
a satellite dish that allows the
picture to be instantly transmitted
from Blyth, up to a satellite, down
to the Global studios in Toronto
when out across the province
(including some viewers in their
homes in Blyth.)
At 6:30 p.m. the doors open, the
local entertainment, gymnasts,
musicians and more, entertain
until about8p.m. when the stage is
deserted and the crew starts
making final preparations for the
draw. Then the countdown begins
until the show goes on air and the
half-hour whizzes by and it’s soon
time for the lights to shut off, the
audience to leave and the crew to
prepare to take the equipment out
again.