Word: minicamera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to TV news broadcasts [Aug. 22], I can live without weathermen who sound like fugitives from a sideshow, beautiful anchor people, "analysts" who produce instant wisdom for any calamity, and minicamera coverage of criminals in action...
...nation's first extended look at such minicamera coverage of a spontaneous event came in Los Angeles during the May 17 Shootout between police and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. CBS affiliate KNXT had a tiny camera on the scene minutes after the shooting began. The station's live pictures of the life-and-death holocaust were then fed to other L.A. stations and to the rest of the nation. WNBC-TV in New York City has taken a minicamera into an operating room to broadcast live snippets of a kidney transplant during its two-hour evening...
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