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Shortage of broadcast engineers?

At IBC this year MMC Committee members spoke to many exhibitors with the aim of understanding what the next big technology would be. But the biggest concern we encourntered was "where are the next generation of engineers going to come from?" Many companies are already reportdly struggling to recruit employees with the right skills.

What do you think the answer will be?

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0 Phoebe Houssein over 7 years ago

David James:

The BBC (my employer) have created a number of schemes over the last couple of years, some of which are pan-industry. It is starting to fill the gap, but there is a problem that while 20 years ago broadcasting was attractive to a larger group, now the likes of Google and Facebook are seen as modern and exciting to graduates and "old media" has become less interesting.

That's a really interesting point, David! Particularly as companies such as Facebook are launching new services - Facebook Live springs to mind.
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0 Phoebe Houssein over 7 years ago

David James:

The BBC (my employer) have created a number of schemes over the last couple of years, some of which are pan-industry. It is starting to fill the gap, but there is a problem that while 20 years ago broadcasting was attractive to a larger group, now the likes of Google and Facebook are seen as modern and exciting to graduates and "old media" has become less interesting.

That's a really interesting point, David! Particularly as companies such as Facebook are launching new services - Facebook Live springs to mind.
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