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How COVID Changed TV Production Forever
Five years ago, the TV industry rose to the challenge of staying on air as the pandemic dawned. Insiders look back on Variety's 'Strictly Business.'
Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months of the COVID pandemic. The first few weeks of the pandemic spurred more seat-of-the-pants innovation to broadcast operations and engineering than had been done since the days of Sid Caesar and Milton Berle in the early 1950s. The social distancing conditions imposed forced producers and crew members and technicans to create virtual control rooms on the fly.
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