[BC] President Ford dies

[Alan Kline]

Thank you, Brew. Your note confirms what I suspected all along--that the 
staffing is there if someone had made the call to do it. Apparently what 
was lacking was the willingness to make the call, and as you say, that's 
a "political" issue...

ak

Brew wrote:
> I take exception to the remarks about CBS News not being staffed with a 
> crew
> around the clock!
> 
> Rob Meuser probably doesn't know, or forgot, that ever since Princess Di's
> poor choice of time to die there is an organized plan to have a News crew
> here.  The Evening News staff works Noon to 8 PM, when the baton gets 
> passed
> to the UTTM crew (Up To The Minute, an overnight news show which some
> affiliates don't carry), and then for the morning hours it's the Early Show
> News crew.  I'm not sure what we do on the weekends.
> 
> As far as Talent and writers I don't know, but what's the use of having a
> crew on duty without the rest available?
> 
> As for the politics of what to interrupt, and when, I can't say.
> 
> brew - Bruce Schiller at CBS-TV, NY in Master Control Maintenance and 
> WA2ZST