WNEP-TV 16 The News Station has a fleet of news cars used by Reporters and Photographers to go to the places that news is happening.

WNEP-TV’s Mobile Newsrooms allow us to bring you reports LIVE from most of Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. A Mobile Newsroom is a large van that contains everything a reporter and photographer need to bring the story to you, including video editing machines and computers that are linked to our Main Newsroom. These vans are equipped with a large mast that can be raised several stories high. On top of this mast is a microwave transmitter that sends a signal to one of our three microwave receivers located across the viewing area. A Photographer can connect a video camera to the truck and send that signal back to WNEP-TV 16 The News Station where we can put it on the air instantly. The result: you see news as it is happening.

One of our Mobile Newsrooms also has a camera mounted to the top of the mast. This allows us to give an Eagle-eye view of the scene.

WNEP-TV 16 The News Station also has a satellite truck. Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania is known for it’s mountainous terrain. Sometimes this terrain can prevent a Mobile Newsroom from getting a signal back to the station. In those cases we send out the satellite truck. It has a large transmitter dish on the roof that sends the signal 22,500 miles to one of several satellites in orbit around the Earth. The satellites then relay that signal back to WNEP-TV 16 The News Station where we can put it on the air LIVE. Because the satellites are so high, our satellite truck could send a signal back to Pennsylvania from anywhere in the US.

Our Production truck is essentially a television station on wheels. We have taken all the equipment you would normally find in a control room and put it in the back of a large truck. Sporting events, telethons, and breaking news can be produced and covered completely on location.