Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket 1993

i'm looking for the background for the very narrative use of the monitors - simple but obviously well-thought out - in frost/nixon -- was it ron howard? was it the DP? his name is salvatore iotina- i noticed his careful framing in 'Cinderella Man' - teh camera waaaay in the back of the fight at the garden, so people could remember what it was like to see a boxing match live - and also i think they had early television in that one.
on the other hand. it could be ron howard's influence, since he grew up, literally, on television sets - the first andy griffith shows were when television was still black and white - so it's quite possible he designed this just from his own years on TV. [he was on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980]