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of a 1 TV - Mobil  Outside broadcasting (OB) is the electronic
field production (EFP) of television or radio programmes
(typically to cover television news and sports television
events) from a mobile remote broadcast television studio.
Professional video camera and microphone signals come into the
production truck for processing, recording and possibly
transmission. The mobile production control room (PCR) is known
as a "production truck", "scanner" (a BBC term), "mobile unit",
"remote truck", "live truck", "OB van" or "live eye". In the
United States an "OB van" is smaller in size than a production
truck and generally require two or three people in the field to
manage. For instance broadcast journalism news reporters
providing live television, local news in the field outside a
formal television studio.   A typical OB van is usually divided
into five parts.    • Parts of the television c