The Broadcast Display

Recently we have completed designing, fabricating, and installing a broadcast display design for Northern Arizona University. This form is representative of our complete strong set style of broadcast display design. The parts that make this display fantastic are it’s colorful translucence, the simple but visually rich graphic panels, glowing backlit columns, vibrant point lights, and rich wood laminate surfaces.

Custom Set Design

While this set is similar to our Complete Strong Set style of broadcast display, every part of it is custom made upon order. If you’re looking for something to add some visual power to your broadcast, we can do anything you have in mind. Do not feel limited by space, size, colors, materials, deadlines, or concepts. If you can think it, chances are we can make it. For that matter, if you aren’t much of a thinker, we can handle that part too.

More Images

Take a look at some of the other images and angles of the broadcast display design for Northern Arizona University. If this peaks your interest, take a look at similar set in our Complete Strong Set category.

The new Broadcast Display Design

This incredibly attractive broadcast display set was recently designed, fabricated, and installed by our team for Samaritan’s Purse in Boone, NC. The main components making this broadcast set so attractive are translucent PETG sheets, beautiful laminates, powder coated steel framing, and an array of powerful but cost effective LED lighting.
Please take a look at the images below and contact us if you think your company needs a new set designed.

Oh yeah. We also grabbed this image near where we installed the broadcast display, on our return trip. The mountain in the middle is Table Rock. Boone has some really great views of the local mountain ranges.

After installing the Broadcast Display

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Studio Set Design

CTV Regina and Saskatoon

Studio set design is just our thing, and these two identical sets designed for CTV bear witness to that. These images are of the two sister sets, prior to complete studio lighting, installed in their respective cities of Regina and Saskatoon in the Saskatchewan province of Canada.
Every member of the CTV broadcast studio crews in both were super friendly, talented, and awesome. The crew we sent north had a great time during the install of the two studio set designs. The set designs took about a month for our crew to complete from scratch here at our facility in Charlotte, NC.

More images of the studio set design

Take a look at more angles on the studio set designs below this text.

Complete Dual Studio Set Design

If you like the idea of having a set like this in your studio, check out the Complete Dual Set, as this set for CTV is a variant of that layout. Here are some images of it, click here if you would like to see the product page.

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Slightly less wide angle news desk

Today we get to add some proper (almost) images of the smaller version of our Wide Angle News Desk. This 8′ wide version is more affordable and takes up less space than the 10′ wide version with the only sacrifice being less anchors can fit at one time. The Wide Angle News Desk is the most recent of our TV set design furniture components, and one of our very favorites. Even this smaller desk version can comfortably fit 4 people for any type of broadcast such as interview, discussion board, webcast, podcast, news cast, talk shows, or product reviews.

Click here to take a look at the product page!

IRS Criminal Investigations

Recently we took a trip to Washington, DC to install a set design we created for IRS Criminal Investigations. The set was designed, as you will see in the images, to fill the space as much as possible for 3 different positions tailored to internal broadcast for the CI division of the IRS. This special closed broadcast goes to the 100 or so people in the same building, and secured to the nationwide divisions numbering some 2400 people.

Set Design Materials

This set design makes use of red and blue translucent vinyls applied to PETG, large vinyl solvent printed graphics, and elegant woodgrain laminates. The framework that all of these materials are applied to is 18ga cold rolled 1″ square steel tubing that has been powedercoated. All materials are connected using aplix’s hook and loop (like velcro) for easy changing of graphics and panels.

Additional Images

Take a look at the other shots we have of this set, and remember that we can make something to fit your company or broadcast for almost any budget. Contact us to get a quote for your upcoming project!

SMall Beacon Broadcast News Anchor Desk

We have just completed a teeny little news broadcast anchor desk for Beacon School District in New York, NY. The main body of the broadcast desk is blue laminates. The top is black laminate with a silver edging applied. The thing that really jumps out about this desk is the school district logo on the front. A solvent printed bulldog applied to quarter inch Sintra which was then cut out and held off the desk’s face by more Sintra that was hidden behind the graphic is what really stands out (pun intended) about this desk.

Beacon Schools Mini News Anchor Desk

Our Newest TV Set Design for a Broadcast Studio

Henry Ford Broadcast Set Design

Some images of our newest set to leave the shop floor headed for the Henry Ford broadcast studio. This small but potent TV studio set is made with lots of love, powdercoated steel, wood laminates, recessed lighting, translucent PETG sheets covered in translucent vinyl, shiny stuff, silver stuff, and glass. We love it, and were sad to see it go.

Translucence in Set Design

A constant problem in broadcast studio design is the size of the space available for the set. An area may seem ample for any purpose, but once you plan for the cameras, lighting, control space, various equipment, storage, grid, fire and building regulations, seating, and so forth… not so much space. There are a few ways to deal with this problem, but for the sake of brevity, lets just cover one.

Using the proper materials for a design can be a great way to increase the amount of perceived space. Translucent materials in particular are great because the blur of lighting and set components trick the viewer’s eye into thinking it is seeing a greater amount of depth than is actually present in the broadcast studio. If the talent for the show is in perfectly crisp focus, and the background panels appear blurred, the effect reads at an increased distance between the newscasters and the walls behind them. Careful selection of set design materials is key in achieving this visual style.

More Visual Angles

A New Broadcast Studio Design for South-South News

This week we sent out a set designed and built by us for the South South News broadcast out of NY proper. The broadcast studio set consists of huge graphic panels, blue translucent vinyl on PETG, silver powercoated framing, translucent clear acrylic, laminates, and many other materials.

This set was a challenge as it is in a somewhat small space for broadcast. However, with careful planning and schematics, we managed to create a broadcast studio set that really fit the space, both dimensionally and visually. The cameras have many angles of variety to shoot different hosts or shows with differing backgrounds for each. Happy us, happy client, overall goodness. Take a look at some of the other images of this broadcast studio design below.

TV Set Design for GLC

The Images

Most of our out of town clients promise us pictures once the set design has been completely lit and prepared for broadcast. This is always an exciting concept for us, due to the fact that often we are already back in our home city of Charlotte by the time the lighting company is finished lighting the set that we designed and fabricated. So far, we have had around 3 clients send us pictures (in 25 years).

So, these couple images are exciting for us as they are from the third aforementioned client. Enjoy

The Materials

Something fun about this set design is the aluminum surfaces we made in shop, using a wire brush with a CNC router. We essentially made a vector file with wavy lines, and then fed that to the CNC router and it’s wire brush hovering over a sheet of aluminum. As you can see in the upper image, this adds a great texture to the material. What you can’t see in the picture is that the aluminum’s specular highlights change as you pan around the scene. Certainly a plus.

Other than the treatment of the aluminum panels, this set is fairly common fur us in materials. We used PETG, acrylics, powdercoated metals, translucent vinyls, printed graphics, and carpet. All fabrication was done in-house.

GLC TV set Design from Gelbach Designs

TV Set Design - Creation Science Evangelism

The Client: Creation Science Evangelism

It’s always great to see our clients so happy (as this picture so clearly proves). This particular TV set design was created for Creation Science Evangelism, also known as God Quest. The client unloaded the shipped crates, and set up the entire set themselves, proving both the client’s capability and the ease of use of our sets. This image was taken while they were still getting the lighting set just as they wanted it, but it looks really great to us.

The Components of the TV Set Design

The parts that went together to form this great set are all available on this site, with upfront ballpark pricing. The final design consisted of our Elliptic News Desk with a monitor for the talent to sit behind, and a variant on our Broadcast Set Design package titled the Complete Strong Set. With some back and forth between the client and our design crew talking about colors and textures, the design was approved and we began construction.

Need a TV Set Design of your own?

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