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.

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!

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

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?

Our crew is ready to provide you with set design recommendations that fit nearly any budget. Contact us by clicking on this link.

TV Set Design Forums

We’ve got new and interesting news! We have just finished creating forums to address questions regarding the TV set design, broadcast studio, studio lighting, and news desk branches of broadcast industry. Our goal is to provide a repository for knowledge regarding these topics in an easy to understand format for anyone that is curious about aspects of broadcast set design. This will most likely make our lives a little easier as well, due to the amount of questions we answer via email from students, veterans in the field, and those curious about breaking in to broadcasting. This way, any questions can be simply and comprehensively answered by a simple search.

It gets better. The TV Set Design Forum will not only be staffed by the tvsetdesigns.com crew, but also from the professionals from Gelbach Designs, and experts from companies that Gelbach Designs and TV Set Designs works with closely on projects. This allows the area of expertise represented in these forums to cover design, lighting, construction, installation, shipping, theater, fabrication, broadcast, videographic, photographic… I’m rambling. It makes our expertise cover an area that completely envelops TV and broadcast set design. So please, give us a hand in getting this thing started, and ask any questions that come to mind regarding TV studio and broadcast set design in our forums!

TV Set Designs - A new set style added to our catalogue

We have added a new style to our catalog of complete TV set designs: The Complete Array Set. This complete broadcast studio set design mixes multiple talent locations, height changes, varying levels of translucency, colors, and various substrates to create a truly versatile Swiss Army knife of a set. This layout provides for a great number of talent and camera positions– from risers or floor level to sitting or standing positions. Most of the components stand on their own, so they may be moved around to handle nearly any spacial problem, or just to give a new look to the set.
Take a look at the ballpark pricing and examples on the complete broadcast sets page.

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The intent of tvsetdesigns.com is to provide a site that can make planning for a new broadcast studio easy and intuitive. With ballpark pricing for custom projects right up front on each product’s page. We currently have pricing for some of our common news desk models, but plan to soon have every component one would want in a TV set design.  Keep an eye out and subscribe via RSS if you would like to know more for you or your client’s television or web broadcast studios.

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