- Hi, my name is Amanda Richardson,
and I'm a part of the production crew here at PBS Wisconsin.
And right now, I'm at the teleprompting station.
So this is the teleprompting equipment that we use
to get the script out to the on-air talent,
and we use this little track pad to go forward,
and also, if they wanna go back, we can go back.
So the teleprompter is sending out the script
to the camera in the studio.
And it is sent backwards so that when the mirror is reflected,
it is shown forwards for the on-air talent.
And it a is one-way glass so that the viewers at home
aren't able to see the words that are scrolling up
on the camera, but the on-air talent is able to see that,
so they're able to read off the teleprompter.
One of my main jobs as teleprompter
is to make sure I'm following along very closely
to the on-air talent to make sure
that the speed is what they need it
and going along exactly to how fast they are going
within the script.
So I'm going at their pace; they're not going at my pace.
So I mainly work on prompter for Here & Now .
For the remote guests, I prompt the questions
so she's able to read off the questions
directly from the camera so she doesn't have to look down
at her paper.
So this is a typical rundown for a Here & Now show.
We have all the list of guests we might have
and what other segments we're doing,
and then the times on this side.
So a lot of it's filmed out of order and then at the end,
we roll it all together.
As prompter, I'm looking at this sheet of paper
to see what time we're recording certain segments.
So this, we're recording eight and nine together.
I will go into the prompter
and I will look for segments eight and nine,
and I will bring that up for our anchor
so she's able to see the correct script that we have.