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ENG is a Broadcasting (usually Television ) industry acronym which stands for '''electronic news gathering'''. It can mean anything from a lone Reporter taking a single Camcorder out to get a story to an entire television crew taking a Satellite truck on location to do a live report for a Newscast . In its early days, the term ENG was used by newsroom staff to differentiate between the NG (newsgathering) crews that collected tv news with traditional Film cameras and the new ENG crews who collected tv news with new electronic analogue tape formats like low band U-matic . The requirement for the differentiation stems from the radically different methods of post-production involved in video versus film. Film needed to be processed before editing, unlike tape where footage could be Edited fairly quickly, thus dramatically reducing the turn-around time for a story. The use of film in newsgathering virtually disappeared by the early 1980s . ENG originally referred to the use of point-to-point terrestrial Communications Satellites operated by companies such as SES Americom or IntelSat . The acronym E.N.G. was also used as the title for a Canadian television drama about the news department of a television station. The series ran for 96 episodes, from 1989 - 1994. TECHNICAL INFORMATION In the U.S. there are ten ENG Video Channels set aside in each area for terrestrial microwave communications, with Frequency Coordination typically done by the local Society Of Broadcast Engineers chapter rather than the FCC . In Atlanta for example, there are two channels each for the four news TV Station s ( WSB-TV , WAGA , WXIA-TV , WGCL-TV ), one for CNN , and another open for other users on request, such as GPB . It is worth noting that this situation is in flux, as the FCC is currently seeking to auction off some of the 2 GHz frequency bands. REFERENCES ''Introduction to SNG and ENG Microwave'', Jonathan Higgins, Focal Press, 2004; ISBN 0240516621 ''Satellite Newsgathering'', Jonathan Higgins, Focal Press, 2nd Ed. 2007; ISBN 0240519736 SEE ALSO |
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