Word: wrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of attention yourself," explains Jack Bowen of Wednesday's Child on KOCO in Oklahoma City. "I make the child's handicaps very clear but highlight the positive features." In Washington, a ten-year-old boy was riding his bicycle for the cameras of WRC's The Forgotten Children when he fell, cutting his lip and chipping a tooth. The boy's social worker started to run to him, but Reporter-Producer Kelly Burke waved her off and conducted an interview beside the fallen bike. "He never cried and he stayed calm," says Burke. "It showed...
...Within the formula, a thousand variations flourish. Weathercasters differ about the measure of dignity the occasion calls for. Before Willard Scott moved to NBC's Today Show, he be came a Washington, D.C., fixture by giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing...