Children in Need 2008
Truck stop for Children in Need
Our Outside Broadcast truck has been out again! Hot on the heels of seeing the QE2 off, it's been in the thick of things with Pudsey Bear!
BBC South's outside broadcast of Children in Need used the OB vehicle as its hub – the second time it has worked with the BBC in a week.
The Solent team provided the technical facilities for the broadcast – held at from Milestones museum in Basingstoke – to help the BBC with a technically complex Children in Need broadcast event. Martyn Welch, Engineering Manager, praised the quality of the truck. He said: "It did everything we needed for the two events. The QE2 OB was the most complex we have ever done in the South, and it gave us our highest ever regional viewing figures."
Media Technology graduate, Gordon Adamson, now an Engineer at the BBC, added: "Solent's outside broadcast truck gave us much more flexible facilities which allowed us to take on more difficult tasks".
Final-year Media Technology and Film and Video Technology students worked at both events, where they got a great deal from their first taste of live television.
Academic Leader, Entertainment Technology Field Group, Sean Lancastle, said: "I was particularly impressed with their professional approach and willingness to get involved with some of the less glamorous but vital technical broadcast tasks. The students are as much of an asset as the OB truck itself.
"We should be very proud that the Technology Faculty's staff and resources are so well regarded. No other UK University can come close to what we have achieved this week."