Working on Coverage of the US Election by ACrew4U

by ACrew4U

When Channel 4 / ITN needed multiple live journalist positions across the US as part of the show “America Decides”, they contacted ACrew4U. This mammoth 8 hour live show, anchored from Washington DC, was the channel’s first overnight coverage of the US elections since 1992.

Hero of the hour was our tireless Creative Resources Director, Sarah Cove, backed up by Brian Smithdorf, junior project manager. Sarah sourced crew and producers, and LiveU bonded cellular uplink kit over no less than 6 live positions and 9 cities across the country. From Miami to Las Vegas, by way of Washington DC.

As you can imagine, there were no end of changes and last minute modifications to cover, but our camera crews and producers brought back the bacon and managed live hit after hit seamlessly during the broadcast.

As Sarah says of the experience, “ITN came to us a couple of weeks ahead of time and we took on the challenge. It was no mean feat sourcing people because every broadcaster you can imagine wanted to book crews and uplink. It involved immense organisation and a busy couple of weeks as well as some seriously long hours dealing with the time difference. Ultimately we got it done, I learnt a lot and was very proud of our accomplishment.”

Bill Mountain, Managing Director said, “Sarah and the crews were a class act and I could not be prouder of having the privilege to be supported by people of their calibre. Truly world class effort from them all.”

The client was also delighted. They said:

“Sometimes in TV you get massively stuck trying to sort something, and sometimes you just luck out and work with a brilliant company. You were so, so helpful for us. Really appreciated your calm can-do approach, even when things were changing and additional requests were coming in. It’s a rarity.”

ACrew4U’s operations team and global database of handpicked crew is there to deal with the details, so you can concentrate on the content be it for live, corporate, factual or reality.