Word: newscaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughters, is affiliated with all three major networks, KTBC initially found itself responsible not only to the community but to the nation as well. Seconds after the first bulletin, the station tipped off U.P.I to the story, then readied a brief voice report for the noon CBS-TV newscast. Meanwhile it was rushing crews to the scene. At 12:20, TV News Director Neal Spelce began nearly two hours of live telecasting from near the tower...
Though the Cantabrigians-six men and a girl-keep their eyes on the oddball, they also have a wayward way with words. Sounding like the BBC, B.C., a newscaster announces unctuously, "Here beginneth the first verse of the news," goeth on to report the latest Old Testament news flashes. Sports items include a heavyweight bout: "At the weigh-in for the big fight tomorrow, Goliath tipped the scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference...
Nothing is more certain to send an editor through the roof than to see his exclusive stories turn up without credit in the next edition of the rival newspaper or hear them on a local radio station's newscast. The practice is so widespread and so deep-rooted in tradition that most editors do no more than fume about it. One who did is Managing Editor Shandy Hill of Pennsylvania's Pottstown Mercury, who was irked for years by what he claimed was the lifting of his news items by a local broadcaster. After a long battle with...
Spaniards who tuned in on news broadcasts last week got the surprise of a quarter-century. Since Francisco Franco installed himself as Spain's dictator in 1938, every newscast had unfailingly ended with a ponderous salute to his Falangist Party and a martial rendition of the Falangist anthem. Last week, for the first time, news bulletins ended instead with a pleasant feminine voice bidding señores y señoras good day, followed by a few bars of a catchy paso doble...
...Captain Kangaroo." Said Mrs. Joel Redlin, summing up a whole city's grievance: "I miss my paper. I miss it, that's all." Better than Nothing. Efforts have been made to relieve the news drought. The struck papers themselves bought radio time for a daily newscast, and some radio stations have amplified their own news coverage; the daily list of the dead, and even editorials, are now broadcast regularly; TV station WTCN pleaded on the air for an end to the strike. Neither radio nor TV, said the station, could substitute for a city's papers. Suburban...