SOUND SOLUTIONS
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BROADCAST STUDIO IN CHURCH: FIRST BAPTIST ATLANTA | Kent Morris
For most large churches, video plays a a live broadcast on a single local station, Dr. crew at In Touch who come in each Sunday
secondary role to the function of the live service. Stanley had a clear vision of how the church and work alongside the tech staff at FBA. Ten
Usually, video is designed to augment the could use video and audio to reach far beyond video cameras are used to show the service in
visual experience in the sanctuary with I-Mag the walls of its sanctuary. He wisely chose to its entirety, including a jib boom system and a
to showcase details not visible to the naked separate the ministry of First Baptist Atlanta unique French-built track camera than travels
eye and streaming images with context for the (FBA) from the broadcast division, known as the full width of the sanctuary. John McKinnon
online worshippers. In contrast, video capture In Touch Ministries (ITM) in order to preserve is in charge of the entire process for both sides
is front and center at First Baptist Atlanta as the best future for both entities. As he states, of the equation. He has decades of broadcast
an essential aspect of the unique nature of the “In Touch is the track and FBA is the train” and live event experience and the skill to make
church’s ministry. meaning FBA provides the content and In each Sunday the best it can be. John Roberts,
Touch provides the delivery for his messages. master of all things technical, oversees the
Dr. Charles Stanley is a familiar figure in Now 86, Dr. Stanley is as vigorous as ever, arrival and connection of two ITM broadcast
religious broadcasting. Each week millions preaching twice each Sunday for weeks on trucks each Thursday at FBA. Tie lines from the
of viewers watch him preach via dozens of end with numerous speaking and taping events truck dock to the sanctuary make the process
TV networks and listen to him on hundreds throughout the workweek. He is celebrating his relatively painless. In the audio truck, two linked
of radio stations. In addition, his sermons are fiftieth anniversary this October as the pastor of Yamaha CL-3 digital consoles are manned
broadcast in one hundred countries and even FBA and he is a true man of God; he walks the by Jonathan Reich and are connected to the
hand delivered on MP3 playback units known talk every day. Yamaha audio system in the church via fiber
as Messengers when broadcast is not an
option. From a humble beginning in 1971 as
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lines. Yamaha RIO-D stage boxes with Dante
Capturing Dr. Stanley’s sermons falls to the tech
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audio networking form the core of the sound
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