C-SPAN Preps All Angles As Pool For January 6th Committee Hearing: “We Wanted To Make Sure All Of Our Bases Were Covered”
deadline.comWhen C-SPAN covers the January 6th Committee’s first primetime hearing, viewers will get coverage from more vantage points that the typical session.The public affairs network is serving as the pool for broadcast and cable media, and will cover the hearing with seven cameras in the stately Cannon Caucus Room, a 74-feet-long and 54-foot-wide venue.“This is not a normal hearing.
There is a little more structure to it,” said Phelix Andrew Jones, C-SPAN Networks’ senior tech. “We wanted to provide as many sources as we could, but we wanted all of those sources to be substantive.
We wanted to make sure all of our bases were covered.”A typical hearing, he said, has three cameras: One for the committee, one for the witnesses and one for a wide shot of the room.This time, C-SPAN will a robotic “head on” camera, getting “cover” shots of the dais; a manned “head on” camera to get shots of committee members; a manned “cut” camera, to get shots of members at the dais or of witnesses and their table; a robotic witness camera; and another witness camera.
There also will be two “high and wide” cameras of the room and the dais, and from behind the witness table looking at the dais.
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