Control room

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This is about control rooms in general; there is also a 2004 documentary called Control Room.

A control room is a room serving as an operations center where a facility or service can be monitored and controlled. Examples include:

• in television production, the master control room is an operations center for a network or station, or the production control room of a television studio;
• each recording studio typically has its own control room where the recording is actually made;
• a NASA flight controller works in a "Flight Control Room" in a Mission Control Center; affiliated facilities such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have their own control rooms;
• Nuclear power plants and other power-generating stations have control rooms;
• Various military facilities, ranging in scale from a missile silo to NORAD, have control rooms.
• Call centers use a control room to monitor incoming and outgoing communications of customer service representatives and provide general oversight of the call center.
• Fire service control rooms (UK) see: FiReControl for article about nine new regional control rooms to handle emergency calls in England.

The TV production control room for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.	ESPN's digital master control room.	The control room of a nuclear reactor at N.C. State.	The control room where unmanned spacecraft are monitored at JPL.
The control room for the D0 experiment.	A German power station control room.	The SAGE Sector Control Room formerly used by NORAD.	A control room for a Titan II missile silo.