188 AT COVID-19 Isolation Zone

Record ID: 463224
  • Title: 188 AT COVID-19 Isolation Zone
  • Date: 28th March 2020
  • Description:Some 65 ORF news staff members work and live during two weeks in isolated zone Closed isolation areas have been set up for 65 employees at the ORF headquarter. They will live and work there for two weeks. These measures are unique in the history of the ORF. The aim is to prevent infections and, in an emergency, to maintain TV, radio and online programs. On Tuesday 24th of March at the ORF centre in Vienna the 14-day service began for four anchors of the TV news program “Zeit im Bild” and 61 other ORF2 employees (journalists, technicians, administration, make-up artists etc). Two weeks in which they will not leave the ORF. At the ORF center a cordoned-off zone was established to guarantee the broadcasting of news programs, offices were converted into bedrooms, beds were screwed together in night shifts. A garden area for getting fresh air is available and shared showers for personal hygiene. To prevent infection, all people in the isolation area were examined by the company doctor before entering. No one was corona positive. Everyone still has to take his temperature three times a day. The program of the ORF information is running as usual for the TV watcher at home, although not everything is as usual. None of the ORF staff members (242 staff members in all ORF isolation areas throughout Austria including the 65 at the ORF center in Vienna and those in the regional studios) has yet broken off their stay. However, everyone is free to leave if he or she wants to. Shotlist Shot on 24/03/20 when staff enters into isolation Shot on 28/03/20 from inside isolation area - ORF HQ outside - ORF information anchors arriving at the isolation zone - soundbite (German) Tarek Leitner, evening news anchor man: “For me it was completely clear that we at the ORF have to inform the Austrian, that we have to broadcast at any costs. - ORF staff going into the isolation zone - empty corridors in the isolation zone (with “bedrooms” left and right) - office-bedroom - employees at the isolated newsroom - soundbite (German) Armin Wolf, late evening news anchor man: “It shall not happen that in the hospitals there are no more medical staff that can treat the patients, and it should neither happen that at the ORF there are no more journalists who can broadcast news, because the public needs information and currently the public picks up this information at the ORF on an unprecedented scale.” - anchors arriving at the company’s doctor - indication “Doctor” - sleeping office - bed to be mounted at ORF garage - little garden at ORF isolation area - shared washroom - ORF newsroom shortly before news transmission - ORF journalist taking his temperature - indication sign “exclusion zone, no entrance” - improvised make-up corner - Soundbite (GermanI Nadja Bernhard, evening news anchor woman: “There are no important changes in the workflow, the only difference is that we wake up at work and we go to bed at work. But the job remain the same.” - Soundbite (GermanI Margit Laufer, morning news anchor woman: “We are simply doing our job, such as many other Austrian do.” - staff walking through corridors - ORF concierge with mask leaving restricted area - evening news “Zeit im Bild 1“ ending by the SOUNDBITE (German): “Keep your distance, we keep you informed.” – “Here's how we'll manage it. Good evening, good bye.”
  • Collection: ORF
  • Genre:News
  • Producer:ORF
  • Transmission Date:28/03/2020
  • Decade: 2020s
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