[BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions

[Jeff Allen]

According to a story on History Channel by Walter Cronkite, they could not
get the camera warmed up in time to get the story on the air, so they just
did audio till the camera warmed up.  Thos old cameras took a while to get
going.


J Allen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid at wrko.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] "Breaking News" Interruptions


> >>Not everything has to be an on-location talking head to communicate,
> although TV seems unable to cope otherwise. In these cases it is the
> message NOT the medium that is important.<<
>
> One of the more famous bulletins in TV broadcast history ("In Dallas,
> Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade...") was
> delivered by Walter Cronkite from a radio studio because CBS had no
> means of airing an on-camera news flash at the time.  As far as I can
> tell, it get the message out without any extraneous bells and whistles.
>
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