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All too often, those of us living under glass think we invented occupational suffrage, that nobody ever weathered the vagaries of the chase until WE took up the lens. Or maybe it’s just me. Either way, I’m heartened by broadcast archivist Amanda Emily’…

All too often, those of us living under glass think we invented occupational suffrage, that nobody ever weathered the vagaries of the chase until WE took up the lens. Or maybe it’s just me. Either way, I’m heartened by broadcast archivist Amanda Emily’…

The “more with less” mantra has become so ingrained in TV newsrooms that the latest data may come as a surprise. Yes, once again, local stations set a new record for the amount of news they aired but they also staffed up to do it. On average, stations aired 5 hours and 30 minutes of local news on weekdays in 2011, 12 minutes more than the year before, according to the annual RTDNA survey. In just four years, stations have added almost a full hour of news each day. And that increase isn’t all due to big market stations pushing up the average, says Hofstra’s Bob Papper, who conducts the survey. The typical station (median) is running five hours of news a day. Almost a third of news directors surveyed said they expect to add more news this year. Not a single one expects to cut news time. Where is all that news finding a home on the schedule? Mostly in the mornings. The fastest growing time period for local news was 5-9 a.m., with 28% of stations that added news putting it in that time slot.  Another 20% added news at 4:30 a.m. And no wonder. Almost three-quarters of news directors […]

I headed west to Darden, TN to spend the day with the Bobo’s.  It was about a year ago that their daughter, Holly Bobo, was kidnapped.  While I do love shooting for America’s Most Wanted, the subject matter can be difficult at times. I was shooting on the HDX 900.  We started the day by […]

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