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...Chicago, repainted it to darken the background, then spent 200 man-hours reviewing the set, painting it once more, building new furniture and restitching the green carpeting for the candidates' platform. At air time an estimated 700 technicians, reporters, television executives and candidates' staff members jammed the WBBM-TV building in Chicago. The network said it spent $633,000 on the production. The producers kept trying to move the candidates closer together than they wished; ABC did best, placing their lecterns just six feet apart...
...announcers, an all-news station typically has platoons of street reporters, anchor persons, helicopter-borne traffic spotters, weather analysts, consumer reporters, writers, editors, directors and producers. New York's WCBS, for example, has 60 editorial employees, nearly three times its pre-all-news complement, and Chicago's WBBM went from 32 staffers to 64 when it made the switch in 1968. Says WBBM General Manager Bill O'Donnell: "We could run two or three stations with the overhead of this...
...conventional live camera and all its lumbering accessories is also slow business. The crash of two elevated trains on Chicago's South Side recently was a perfect example of what directors fear. It occurred shortly after 6 p.m. during the local stations' evening news programs. Yet WBBM-TV was on the air 22 minutes later with live pictures from the crash site, long before competitors could even begin editing film for later broadcasts...
...WBBM'S quick action was possible because of a new camera system that is soon to revolutionize TV news coverage...
...somewhat similar experiment was carried out this year by WBBM-TV, CBS'S put-let in Chicago, which brought in critics from the local newspapers to review the new TV season on the 10 o'clock news...