Tanner Teleprompting 🇺🇸

📍 Los Angeles, CA, USA

🏢 Founded 1995

🌍 Premium Teleprompting Services & Operations

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Company Overview

Tanner Teleprompting operates slightly differently within the live event ecosystem. While companies like Prompter People manufacture the physical hardware, Tanner Teleprompting is a premier, highly specialized service provider and operator. Based in Los Angeles, they are the vital human infrastructure behind massive award shows, highly sensitive corporate broadcasts, and celebrity keynotes.

Teleprompting is a highly skilled art form. An event organizer cannot simply buy a piece of glass, hand an iPad to an intern, and expect a Fortune 500 CEO to deliver a flawless speech. Tanner Teleprompting provides the specialized, heavy-duty hardware (often utilizing top-tier brands) and the highly trained operators who actually ‘drive’ the script. These operators actively listen to the speaker’s cadence, instantly adjusting the scroll speed, jumping back if the speaker loses their place, and making live, on-the-fly script edits requested by producers.

For massive live events—where a single script error could ruin a live broadcast—event producers rely entirely on specialized operators like Tanner Teleprompting to guarantee absolute flawlessness on stage.

Core Technologies

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Live Cadence Tracking

The most critical ‘technology’ is the human operator. Highly trained technicians actively listen to the speaker and manually match the scroll speed to their exact, fluctuating cadence and dramatic pauses.

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Redundant Systems Architecture

For live broadcasts, failure is not an option. Tanner operators utilize highly specialized, redundant hardware setups where multiple laptops and switchers run in parallel; if a computer crashes, the backup seamlessly takes over without the speaker ever knowing.

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On-The-Fly Scripting

During chaotic live events, speeches change minutes before air. Specialized operators utilize advanced software to make massive, real-time script revisions instantly across all connected stage prompters.

Featured Solutions

Full Service Prompting

Teleprompter and autocue for single or multiple video cameras. Presidential prompters and downstage monitors for live events, musicians, and commencements.

Remote Teleprompting

We pioneered virtual and remote teleprompting and interviews so you can stay safe on set — not just since COVID-19, but decades ago so producers or presenters wouldn’t need to fly.

More Than Prompters

Interrotron, EyeDirect, and VoxBox let you interview direct-to-camera like Errol Morris. Teleprompter training and rehearsals save time and help you look great.

Ideal Industry Deployments

🏆 Live Award Shows (Oscars, Grammys)

🎤 Celebrity & VIP Keynotes

📺 Live Broadcast Television

🏢 High-Stakes Corporate Events

Frequently Asked Questions

Why hire an operator instead of doing it ourselves?

Reading a script smoothly is incredibly difficult. If the prompter scrolls too fast, the speaker panics; too slow, and they stall. A professional operator matches the speaker’s exact breathing and pacing, ensuring a natural, stress-free delivery.

What happens if a speaker goes off-script?

This is precisely why professionals are hired. An experienced operator will instantly stop the scroll, listen to the ad-lib, and flawlessly jump the script to wherever the speaker decides to pick back up.

What is an Interrotron?

Invented by Errol Morris, it uses two teleprompters connected to two cameras. Instead of text, the prompters show a live video feed of the interviewer/interviewee. This allows both people to look directly into the camera lens while actually looking at each other’s faces.