[Technologist]

Going back to the topic of autocues. As someone who never worked in the industry I always assumed one of the producers would run the autocue while on-air. This might be a stupid question but are/were there actual positions where the only task is/was to run the autocue?

Before the patents ran out the only way you could get an autocue
(there were no other brands) was to hire it with its operator
…… who would type the script in alter it as required help to rig and pace the playout …
So no broadcasters staff needed

When others were able to offer the equipment they did so as did autocue,
but only  a few offered wet hire  but the role for the prompt system operator remained.
Going back to say 25 years there were attempts to put speech recognition in to pace the prompting
…..  some worked quite well.. .