"so it makes me wonder what kind of organisation this TV station is if they are using off the shelf windows setups."
Simple, just like any other company with a volume licence agreement they buy PC's with a pre-existing Windows licence, let the user connect it to the domain and let Group Policy and Sysem Center do their work. For your typical office worker, why go to the trouble and expense of doing a bespoke build when all they will be running is Office, Acrobat Reader, Remote Desktop, IE/Chrome and a network printer?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
