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CNN/Sports Illustrated Studio Tour - Jargon
 Audio operator - Controls the sound on microphones, tape audio, live guests and events. Has the power to silence anchors and reporters, but being kind-hearted individuals, they never do.
Anchor - Something you throw out of a boat. Or an intelligent individual who can ad-lib about any sport in the universe at a moment's notice.
Beeper - Graphic of reporter or region appears on screen while anchor interviews a guest or correspondent by phone. Usually used this when a breaking story occurs and a video crew has not had time to get to the scene.
Bug - The CNN/Sports Illustrated logo that appears at the lower right hand corner of the screen at all times or something anchors do to producers.
Camera operator - Cameras are robotic and the operator maneuvers them in the control room through remote control.
Clean air - Not only the fresh stuff we breathe, but also a show without mistakes.
Clip - Blocking from behind in football. At CNN/Sports Illustrated stands for elements edited on Quantel.
Control room - Where the show is technically orchestrated. Also, where people do a lot of screaming.
Control room set - Located in front of the control room, it's used mainly for one-anchor updates.
Copy Editor - Checks copy or script written by writers. Generally tortures writers.
Crashing - Getting information at the last minute or simply running out of time and putting together a story while trying not to have a heart attack.
Director - Calls the shots while the show is on the air. Tells technical director when to roll a tape, pull up a background graphic, etc. Has final say over technical crew. Uses lots of hand gestures and can be very loud.
Director of research - Leads the daily task of researching the many tidbits of sports facts needed to make our programming more interesting.
Editor - Takes highlights from sporting events, press conferences, or breaking news and, using the Quantel, puts together a story or voice-over video.
Field producer - Accompanies reporters in the field and coordinates between the reporter and CNN/Sports Illustrated in Atlanta.
Floater or float - A story that is added late and the producer could put it anywhere in the show, usually to the dismay of the director.
Font operator - Lightning fast individual who types the names, locations and other information regarding live events, packages, vo's, etc. that are put on the screen by the director.
Graphics - Full screen backgrounds with text information.
Graphic artist - Designs the look of all backgrounds.
Hot tub set - A semi-circle set where anchors interview guests. Just a nickname.
IFB - Interruptable frequency broadcast. Producer speaks to anchor or reporter through IFB ear piece for changes in a script, time cues, breaking news or hair tips.
Logger - Watches a live sporting event on the triage machine, picks the highlights and makes a list of them for air.
Managing editor - Oversees editorial content of network. He's the Starfleet Commander.
Master Control - The last stop before being aired to the public. Controller keeps CNN/Sports Illustrated on air and on time while incorporating commercials into the program.
Newsroom set - The main set where two anchors sit.
Package - Reporter or correspondent's story.
Pen - Quantel 'wand', not necessarily an ink pen.
Producer - Long suffering individual who puts together a rundown of the top sporting events and breaking news stories of the day.
Quantel editing - Completely tapeless editing system. Editor uses a pen-like device to move video around into three bins in order to build a story or package.
Robo cam operator - Uses joy stick to maneuver studio cameras from inside the control room.
Rundown - Line-up of stories according to their timeliness and priority.
Shot sheet - List of the running highlights from a sporting event. Anchor uses this list to recap a game on the air.
Slug - Title of a story.
SOC - Sound on clip or sound bite. This is traditionally called sound on tape (SOT) but since we have no tape, it's now an SOC.
Split screen or split box - When anchor interviews a remote guest or talks with a reporter in the field, divided boxes appear so that the viewer can see them both.
Supervising Producer - Oversees the Producer and is responsible for making sure the show contains correct information. Also handles coverage of breaking news and live press conferences.
Technical director - Actually punches the buttons that make the tapes roll, calls up the split screens, takes camera angles, etc. He or she is the Director's right hand.
TelePrompTer - Anchors read scripts from electronic TelePrompTer which scrolls the scripts on a monitor inside the face of the studio camera. Operator sits in the control room.
Tell - Anchor reads or ad-libs information on a story without video or graphics.
Ticker - Located at the bottom of the screen, shows final scores, updates of games in progress, high scorers, winning and losing pitchers and sports news.
Toss - Anchor or reporters hand off to another anchor reporter or a commercial break.
Triage - A logger can watch a live sporting event and capture highlights as they happen. By the end of the event, CNN/Sports Illustrated has a complete rundown of the highlights and brings them straight to you.
VO - Voice-over: anchor reads script while viewer sees video of what they're talking about.
Writer - Researches information on breaking news and writes stories in a very quick time frame for air. Takes a lot of aspirin.
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