Original eBay listing #180381989950

BSG Reporters Recording Device & Media Pass

This is the listing as eBay showed it during the sale, captured 13 July 2009. Anything learned since is in post-sale context below. Seller-hosted images in the listing were not archived; the lot page has the full photographs.

Full page as captured (eBay styling not preserved)

Post-sale context

Research, corrections and screen references added to this archive after the sale. The original catalogue text is above, unchanged.

Screen use

Handheld Digital Recorder

One of possibly two-like props, possibly modified from a tire pressure gauge reader with added faux mic tip to cover valve connector, used by multiple reporters during the series run.

Most prominently seen in Season 2 during press conferences aboard Galactica during the martial law crisis and in the wake of William Adama's shooting, with like devices held by both Sekou Hamilton and Playa Palacios in "Home, Part I." Other reporters have held this type of device as well, suggesting use by multiple persons throughout the series.

Screencap With Raahul Singh, Christina Schild Battlestar Galactica · S02E06 “Home Part I” · @ 00:14:54 Frakr screencap library

Research

Press Badge

Press badges make use of the "A-shaped" door styling of Galactica's compartment hatches, as well as an earlier version of the ears and tails iconography.

Screencap BSG-TRS · S03E19 “Crossroads, Part I” · @ 00:05:13 Frakr screencap library

Screencap With Lucy Lawless Battlestar Galactica · S02E08 “Final Cut” · @ 00:21:23 Frakr screencap library

Screencap With Lucy Lawless, Kandyse McClure Battlestar Galactica · S02E08 “Final Cut” · @ 00:11:43 Frakr screencap library

Screencaps & reference images

Screencap With Matthew Bennett Battlestar Galactica · S01E00 “Miniseries Night 1-” · @ 00:34:20 Frakr screencap library

Screencap With Ally Warren Battlestar Galactica · S01E10 “The Hand of God” · @ 00:03:07 Frakr screencap library