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DOING IT LIVE
Student-Run Livestreams on the Rise in COVID-19 Era
By Wesley Sykes, managing editor
There was a time when broadcasting high school
athletic events was an arduous task - not to mention
expensive too. Lugging heavy equipment around, gaffing
yards of hard wiring, arriving early and leaving late just
to set-up and breakdown the broadcast, life isn't always as
glamorous as the professionals at ESPN make it out to be.
But flash forward to today and nearly every student in
high schools across the country has the power to create
a quality live-stream broadcast right in their pocket -
smartphones. In fact, according to research, modernday
smartphones are equipped with millions of more
computing power than the Apollo 11 spaceship, but that's
a different story.
So, with all this computing power and ability in the
palm of our hands, how can schools take advantage of the
mass adoption of these technologies?
" The days of satellite trucks are over, " Douglas Green,
broadcast journalism teacher at Carlsbad (CA) high
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school said. " We just went live using [a program] that
turns your cell phone into an HD broadcast camera.
They already have the phone, and if you're paying for the
bandwidth and server, all you have to do is flip a switch
and you're live. "
Green is a 31-year veteran in the California teaching
industry, with more than 20 years of teaching broadcast
journalism classes at Carlsbad. A former California
Teacher of the Year, Green is responsible for overseeing
CHSTV, a live daily broadcast that has amassed 19
Student Emmys, 13 Student Television Network (STN)
Awards of Excellence, and has won the Best Daily
Newscast in the Nation from STN every year since
2008. Their 900 square-foot studio is outfitted with two
Panasonic P2HD studio cameras on dollies, a Canon
C300 DSLR camera on a crane, two Sony XDCAm
4K camcorders, a GoPro camera, a wireless handheld
Ronin-S " Fly Cam " that serves as a Steadicam to fluidly

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