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...Casey, it was the story of a lifetime. A television cameraman for WSB-TV, the Atlanta affiliate of ABC, Casey narrowly escaped death last week as a Georgia tornado flattened his mobile broadcasting van. Casey's tape of the tornado was dynamite. Alerted that evening by WSB that the story was being transmitted by satellite, ABC News decided to use the gripping footage as its lead on Nightline. By the time it did, however, thousands of viewers had already seen Casey's emotional report on Cable News Network, an ABC rival...
...broadcast stations, though, perhaps the most important new partnership is the one they have formed with CNN. Both KRON and WSB are among the 121 network affiliates that are CNN partners. The Atlanta-based cable network airs stories provided by its partners via satellite, and distributes the stories to other station partners for their use. Broadcasters believe local viewers who catch their news teams on cable may be more likely to tune in the station if they like what they see. Says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who directs the Benton Broadcast Fellowships at the University of Chicago...
...WSB-TV reporter Marc Pickard, who said he was invited to assure that the terms of any agreement would be public, said he was told that the inmates were holding 75 hostages, including two suffering from unspecified medical problems...
...diffident 23-year-old as a "news groupie." When he was a teenager, he built and broadcasted from a low-power radio station in his home. Later he worked for a number of commercial radio stations and served as a freelance news cameraman for the city's WSB-TV. But since June 4, the news enthusiast has found himself too close to the headlines. Beginning that morning-when Williams was released from local FBI headquarters after hours of questioning about the deaths of 28 black Atlanta youths-he was hotly pursued by an army of reporters, photographers...
...journalism. On some stations, in fact, there are hopeful signs. A number of dabblers in happy talk are sobering up after their earlier excesses, and have settled on an informal format far superior to the original portentous and lugubrious style of TV news. Atlanta's WSB has toned down its forced spontaneity, and the ABC-owned station in Chicago, WLS, which was among the first to succeed with news giggles, has recently reverted to being just as straight and enterprising as (but no more than) any other news gatherer in town. The test for WLS, and the Chicago audience...