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Originally Posted by Gayle
Fair enough. Perhaps I was being a little simplistic. But, I would be interested to know how they reckon it's going to cost £40k a year. Any equipment installation would be a one off. I disagree that the whole room would need to be wired up. I'm fairly sure that the houses of Parliament don't have the whole room wired up, just a mic at each side for each speaker.
As for the Officer's time - I can't see how I could be that far out. Even if I'm being ridiculously generous, I can't see how the cost would be over £10k.
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I can only go by the quotes we have been given for webcasting other councils and that is the average figure. It may well be less than that for HBC but we'd have to look at what potential bills we might be facing.
Parliament is wired up like a Christmas tree and during full debates I imagine the sound engineer really earns his money because someone will have to operate the console and make sure that the right microphone is being recorded otherwise you'd get a real hash. Unless you also had a vision mixer you'd also have a hell of a job editing as each council session goes on a least three hours and you'd need at least three cameras. Bear in mind that this is in my field of work and you'd need someone who knew what they were doing, not just decent equipment.
I'm keen on webcasting but all the gear and no idea wouldn't make for very good viewing.