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Van Director Kenton Kipp and his assistant Matt Waldron take great pride in producing professional looking and diverse programs. They pore over each high school's sports roster and look at upcoming city events to plan their coverage schedules. They try hard to balance many different sports for both genders, and three high schools. They also work very hard to follow any of our teams if they should make it into any kind of post- season scenario. While we have two staff members devoted to the van department, a van shoot typically requires at least five people. We make up the difference with volunteers from the community, and interns. Kenton and Matt have nurtured a reliable group of volunteers who have become very technically adept. The number of volunteers helping out this past year increased for the second year in a row. Volunteers also put in quite a few more hours, smashing the previous record by 358 hours. This is partially due to a larger number of van shoots than in the previous year. The van department was very productive this year, breaking two out of three records. Even more important than quantity though, is that Kenton and Matt manage to maintain a very high level of quality. Programming produced with rotating volunteers will never look like something on ESPN, but the van department does an incredible job of putting together very professional programs. Through solid camera work, the creative use of hand-held 'shots, instant replay, and complex graphics and animations, our sports coverage is top- notch. The technical quality of programs produced with the truck is at the best it has ever been also, thanks to a digital upgrade in November. The signal coming out of our cameras, switcher and tape decks is now pure digital. This results in a very nice product. 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 o 1l!I# of Shoots .# of Volunteers Statistically speaking it was a very good year for the production truck. 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 10