NBC affiliate WAVY-TV and FOX affiliate WVBT-TV, cover the Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA, television market from the same studio complex and share all production equipment. With a typical week consisting of the production of well over six hours a day of live news, news production and breaking news coverage, the two stations needed a way to improve on one of the more expensive and labor-intensive aspects of their operation. Prior to the installation of Vinten AutoCam robotics, studio cameras were always operated in a completely manual mode with a full studio crew. In addition, logistical issues would often pop up - for instance, the separate productions of two late newscasts would occasionally overlap due to network overruns on one of the stations. So, in addition to simply pursuing the labor savings that automating camera movements would provide, the stations were also looking for a better way to deal with the logistics of producing news for two separate stations co-located in the same facility.
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