[BC] President Ford dies

[Robert Meuser]

Think about this. It is more than having a camera ready reporter 
available. You also need at a minimum one video technician, a camera man 
at least one  (probably two) audio people, a lighting director, an 
electrician, a producer, a director, an AD and possibly some graphics 
people. That is a big staff to carry for no planned show. Would you pay 
12 or more people the appropriate salary to sit around all night doing 
nothing?  Then double that for the two shifts needed.

Re Ford, he was a good man with a great heart.  RIP

R


Mike McCarthy wrote:

> If it came as a surprise to the media, it's likely the network was 
> operating in background mode and didn't have any camera ready 
> reporters able to go live...anywhere. ABC was "live" depending on 
> which version of Nightline was on the air. (A number of Nightline's 
> are taped, plus they run a CNN type news feed overnight.) NBC has 
> CNBC.  CBS has no real 24 hour news outlet to base any of it's 
> reporters.  Sad...Morrow must be spinning in his grave.
>
> As so well satirized by Don Henley,  the Ford's weren't a party to a 
> media "death watch".  Very consistent with their lifestyle. I thought 
> of Pres. Ford very highly and voted for him in my "first election" at 
> high school. That despite him pardoning Nixon in a very dark period in 
> our nation's history.
>
> MM
>
> At 11:20 PM 12/26/2006 -0600, Alan Kline wrote
>
>> FrankGott at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> ABC just reported the death of the 48th President of the United 
>>> States Gerald Ford.  He was 93.
>>> It happened during Nightline.  Anchor Terry Moran announced they'd 
>>> just learned of his death, and would pause so the remainder of the 
>>> network could join so he could tell the remainder of the country the 
>>> sad news.  They then had a countdown for the network join.
>>
>>
>> Apparently no one at CBS thought it was worth interrupting "Stupid 
>> Pet Tricks" to have an actual reporter announce the death of a 
>> President.
>>
>> ak
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